The Democratic National Committee’s been picking up the slack for its presidential candidates.
Since Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are busy battling one another, the DNC booked this national ad highlighting Republican opponent John McCain’s utter confusion about our current national climate.
For example, he claims the Bush administration helped generate new jobs, while the commercial clearly points out that 1.8 million have been lost.
Though definitely informative, the advert serves an alternate purpose.
The DNC currently has only $5.3 million on hand, according to a March 30, FEC report. The Republican National Committee has a little bit over $31 million. It’s been said before, but the Democrats desperately need money to fight through the general election. That explains the McCain commercial’s final message: “help us fund this ad.” “This ad” reportedly cost $500,000 for a three-week tour of duty.
The DNC’s website has a similar message as the McCain Commercial. When you enter the Committee’s homepage, you see this message, “We are airing this ad on national television to show Americans just how little John McCain knows how much they’ve been struggling.” The DNC’s also struggled, because if you click through to the homepage, you find a second page of the advert, which comes complete with another fundraising form.
Ads don’t war for just votes anymore.
Timothy
The DNC needs better fact-checkers.
For gas prices to be “up 200%”, they would need to be three times what they were eight years ago. (“Up 100%” means 100% increase, or twice what something was)
According to the California Energy Commission, when Bush was elected the average gas price was $1.78. Now it is $3.85. While that is twice the price, it’s not “up 200%”. It’s up 116%.
I didn’t check to see if the rest of their numbers are also incorrect. But this one was so obviously false that I looked it up.
abelincoln
—fact-checkers—
Who says “No child left behind” isn’t working?
KB
I hope McCain gets his ass handed to him in November.
Think for a moment if Gore had become President in 2000. He starts two wars that continue with changing missions, and no end in sight. He loses the Clinton-era surplus and racks up the biggest deficits in our history. He presides over a mortgage and home foreclosure crisis that tips our economy into recession. He screws up the Federal response to the costliest national disaster in history because his FEMA Director was previously an Arabian Horse Show judge.
In that scenario, would the Republicans be defending him by saying “Well, he has done a good job because we haven’t been attacked again since 9/11!”
Pathetic. No wonder we are the laughing stock of the world.
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that read:
“No child left a dime.” !!!
Matt
KB,
I agree and disagree with you on some points you made. I think that the war in Afganistan was appropriate and that we should have completed that mission before engaging in any other conflicts. I don’t believe we should have ever been in Iraq. I feel bad for the Afgan people and the soliders over there. It is truely the forgotten war.
I totally agree with you on the surplus issue. The money would have been better spent as tax refunds to citizens or infastructure improvements.
I disagree with your comment on the mortgage crisis. I’m in the industry and it’s more of a subprime mortgage crisis. Traditional mortgages for people who weren’t subprime borrowers are doing quite well. Subprime borrowers make up a very small percentage of the total portfolio and we technically don’t know if we are in a recession or not. A recession is defined as two or more quarters of contraction in the economy. We haven’t had one yet just very small growth.
I totally agree FEMA screwed up. I mean look at the trailers no one could use. That being said, I have family there and during the first part of the crisis I volunteered and helped out. Unfortunately government can only do so much, there were a lot of people who basically were not willing to try to help themselves. They were sitting around waiting on the government to fix things. A lot of these people are still waiting while others picked themselves up and soldiered on.
All in all, I do believe that the blame for everything lays with both parties. Mr. Bush for his imperialist policies and the Democrats for not standing up to him even when they won a majority in Congress.
sam
It’ll be really interesting to see how the difference between funds on the party level ends up working out. John McCain on his own seems unable to raise money or enthusiasm from almost anybody, whereas both Barry and Hill are raising dough hand over fist.
McCain got less than 75% of the votes in the Pennsylvania Republican primary, where his only opponents were people who had already dropped out of the race, and Ron Paul, who sort-of dropped out too, and is also Ron Paul. It doesn’t bode too well for Stumpy McWarmonger, I’d say.