The first comes from the Republican himself. Entitled "Fight," the 60-second spot features Senator McCain doing his best impersonation of personable and promising, "The last eight years haven't worked very well, have they? I'll make the next four better." Pam Spaulding can't help but describe this show as a near "parody." We've included the transcript down below.
The second commercial comes from McCain rival Barack Obama, whose team seized on McCain's comments last night that he's not George Bush. Insisted the Republican, "I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago."
Well, the Obama camp took those words and paired them with a McCain appearance on Bill O'Reilly's show, on which McCain bragged that he voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004. Not only that, says McCain, he did "everything in my power" to get Bush elected and reelected.
Watch it, after the jump…
Here's the text of McCain's ad:
The last eight years haven't worked very well, have they?
I'll make the next four better.
Your savings, your job and your financial security are under siege.
Washington is making it worse – bankrupting us with their spending.
Telling us paying higher taxes is "patriotic"?
And saying we need to "spread the wealth around"?
They refuse common sense solutions for energy independence.
So every day we send billions to the Middle East.
We need a new direction and I have a plan.
Your savings. We'll rebuild them.
Your investments. They'll grow again.
Energy. We'll drill here and we'll create a renewable energy economy.
Lower taxes and less spending will protect your job and create new ones.
That'll restore our country.
Stand up with me, let's fight for America.
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Anyone with 8 houses and a private plane needs to stop talking about Washington bankrupting "us" because no one is buying it.
With retail sales down 1.2% in September it's clear that McCain b.s. isn't the only thing Americans aren't buying.
Obama's 90% ad is the most effective "negative" ad of the entire political season.
Just damning. Ihope they run it to death.
The actual Obama ad is here:
http://link.brightcove.com/ser.....1859660952
It's much more effective then the clip above.
Thks George.
Obama should pull out all the stops for the next 20 days. His money and the talented people working for him with this kind of advertising could result in a democratic rout this year. We need to sweep away the last vestiges of the 1990s Gingrich congress.