DNC Slams McCain In New Ad

by Todd Beeton, Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 09:39:53 AM EDT

John McCain is sort of hilarious. It's like he says these things just to be contrarian; it's like he believes his own hype. "Gee, I'm a maverick, so I have to say stuff I'm not supposed to say or else people might think I'm a political hack!" The latest instance of this is his spirited defense of Bush's economic record in a recent interview. Barack Obama has been hitting him for it on the stump and now the DNC has released its first ad of the cycle, using McCain's own words against him and proving once and for all that, again, as McCain himself said:

"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should..."

So the question is, what's worse: that McCain actually believes this crap or that he would say something he doesn't truly believe out of the desire to protect Bush's legacy? He's either completely ignorant and incompetent or a liar.

As the battle for the Democratic nomination goes on, and it looks as though it will until June, we're going to have to rely on the DNC to be a central anti-McCain message machine, even as it continues to fund the 50-state strategy. There's a good reason the DNC is the only Dem committee to be worse off than its Republican counterpart so take a moment to help refill its coffers HERE.

Tags: 2008 Presidential election, better off, DNC, John McCain (all tags)

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Re: DNC Slams McCain In New Ad

Thanks for posting this video. McCain had over 20-minutes on an ABC love-fest today.

by Veteran75 2008-04-20 09:44AM | 0 recs

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I saw where McCain wants to lower the corporate tax rate from 35% (36%?) to 25%. How out of touch is that with the deficit we have?

As an accountant for a decent sized corp for a long time, there are so many tax breaks available to them that aren't available to the rest of us that this is just ridiculous.

by tabbycat in tenn 2008-04-20 09:46AM | 0 recs

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Way to go, DNC!!

In the military, George McCain is what we call a "target-rich environment"!!

by dembluestates 2008-04-20 09:54AM | 0 recs

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My question is this: How many people here would rather have this doddering old fool than the Democrat they are not supporting?

If this ad does not sum it up well enough for everyone here to get why we must support the dem candidate regardless of who it is than those people just can't be helped.

by JDF 2008-04-20 10:17AM | 0 recs

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Absolutely awesome. We need to remember who the real people we need to be spending all this time and energy against is- the Republicans. Kudos to you, Todd.

by ragekage 2008-04-20 10:19AM | 0 recs

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The DNC should be slamming Obama!

Obama is the enemy here.

Hillary SUPPORTS McCain!

Get it right, DNC.

by OhPlease 2008-04-20 10:26AM | 0 recs

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Hillary says McCain has passed the CinC

threshold - but Obama has not.

I sure wish the DNC would run ads like that!

You can bet the RNC will be using Hillary's words against us this fall.

by OhPlease 2008-04-20 10:28AM | 0 recs

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Re: Hillary says McCain has passed the CinC

Hey--I appreciate the TR abuse on other threads. If you want to go around capriciously TR'ing people just because you disagree with their post, you might want to at least write a diary. Thanks!

by zcflint05 2008-04-20 10:47AM | 0 recs

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Re: The DNC should be slamming Obama!

Your comments are entirely uncalled for and extremely inappropriate. I sincerely doubt you are a genuine Obama supporter since statements like yours only divide the party and hurt any nominee in the Fall.

by noop 2008-04-20 10:47AM | 0 recs

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Re: The DNC should be slamming Obama!

my comments are 100% accurate

by OhPlease 2008-04-20 11:04AM | 0 recs

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Re: The DNC should be slamming Obama!

True or not, this is not the appropriate thread for such statements and your manner is an affront to both candidates. Please keep your comments relevant and be respectful of the other members.

by noop 2008-04-20 02:26PM | 0 recs

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Re: DNC Slams McCain In New Ad

That's what I'm talking about....I'm proud to be a Democrat!!!!

by hootie4170 2008-04-20 10:36AM | 0 recs

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How do you respond to.......

When(if)Obama is our candidate.

McCain has already brought up the Ayers thing: http://thepage.time.com/obama-camp-respo nse-to-mccains-ayers-statements/yers

How does Hillary Clinton, who has alredy posed this as a legitimate issue, defend her party's candidate at that point from the kind of attacks she was so willing to deliver?

by mady 2008-04-20 10:40AM | 0 recs

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Don't expect an intelligent answer

to that on this site.

by OhPlease 2008-04-20 10:48AM | 0 recs

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Re: How do you respond to.......

If that's the way she wants to play then let her. Have a little more faith in the ability of the American people to see through B.S. If we stop spending our time worrying about this kind of crap and more of our time attacking McCain her comments will be irrelevant by the time November roles around.

We've got hope, new voters, more voters, and an energized party on our side in a change election.

They've got an old fart (with apologies to the old farts out there) with anger issues who has flip-flopped his positions in order to align himself with a very unpopular president. He has admitted no understanding on the economy as we head into a recession, and wants to stay in an unpopular war for 100 years.

The key is to stop giving Hillary credence by letting her set the parameters of the debate and bring everything back to how bad McCain will be for America.

by Renie 2008-04-20 11:05AM | 0 recs

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Re: How do you respond to.......

Hey, I'm too close to old-farthood myself. There are plenty of alta kochers I would love to see as president, just not this one.

by mady 2008-04-20 11:08AM | 0 recs

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Re: How do you respond to.......

I'm glad you have faith that the American people will see through this B.S., beacause I don't.
The American people haven't shwon any capability to see through any political B.S. over the past 50 years.

by spirowasright 2008-04-20 12:38PM | 0 recs

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Re: How do you respond to.......

They haven't in the past, but I think that if we go into full attack mode vs. McCain the primary garbage will be old news. Here's where I get my faith - Obama has been taking it from both Hillary, and the Republicans (including Limbaugh and Fox News for months), the Democratic party is supposedly divided, and he's STILL ahead of McCain in the polls. When I look back at what was thrown at Kerry, I can't say that it was so much worse than what has been thrown at Obama (especially when you consider that it's coming from our own party). The 3am ads, Wright, bittergate, lapelgate, South Carolina, the list goes on and on, he's withstood it all and continued to maintain a lead over McCain while McCain gets nothing but good press.

I have no illusions that it won't be a tough fight, or that more crap won't be thrown at him, but if we can help the DNC get ads like this on the air I think we'll be a lot better off than we will be if we continue to spend the next few months thinking only about the primary fight and ignoring McCain.

by Renie 2008-04-20 03:02PM | 0 recs

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Re: How do you respond to.......

Hillary Clinton did not "Pose this as a legitimate issue".

Stephanopoulos and Gibson did.

Of course, if you're an Obamabot, all attacks can be traced back to the evil "Hillary Matrix", which must be defeated and destroyed..

by dembluestates 2008-04-20 02:53PM | 0 recs

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Re: How do you respond to.......

No, actually in the conference call the morning after the debate, her top aides posed this as their main question to the press. I would not have thought anything of it if it had just been the two press yo-yos on the debate, but it WAS her campaign, and that was upsetting.

by mady 2008-04-20 03:05PM | 0 recs

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Re: DNC Slams McCain In New Ad

This is a fantastic ad.

by AlexScott 2008-04-20 10:53AM | 0 recs

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I can't wait to fight McCain in the fall, Obama is going to take this hack out!

by clintonmccain 2008-04-20 10:58AM | 0 recs

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I'd love Obama to do that but i'm not that optimistic at the moment. Obama is being branded as a friend of terrorists and an elitist, that is toxic. That is more damaging than supporting a dumb war, having no healthcare plan and being clueless about the economy.

McCain was the best candidate they could of nominated, and we'd be making a big mistake by underestimating him.

by liberalj 2008-04-20 11:59AM | 0 recs

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Excellent

by Hope Monger 2008 2008-04-20 11:34AM | 0 recs

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will any of this stick, that's the question? rasmussen shows that the opinons of mccain are pretty soft, as opposed to the dems, so there's room to attack him, but i worry that with eeryone focused on clinton/obama, they won't care about this.

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_conte nt/politics/election_20082/2008_presiden tial_election/daily_presidential_trackin g_poll

by Doug Tuttle 2008-04-20 12:58PM | 0 recs

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It's kind of tough to criticize McCain when Obama loves everything about him and retugs in general, especially GHW Bush's foreign policy. This guy hates Dems as much if not more than McCain.

Yes I've heard many say Obama will win the beauty contest if he's lucky enough to compete one on one with the Vitenam hero, but McCain will blow him away with word-iness. And if Condi is on the ticket, well my guess is AA's will vote in droves for her over Obama. She atleast has some work experience. And a lot more class BTW (I don't think she would give the finger for instance).

Anyway, can you imagine any repug dissing their own Reagan or Bush in favor of Clinton's or any Dem's foreign policy? Absurd. Yet this guy gets away with it with the applause of other "Dems". Shameful.

by India 2008-04-20 01:13PM | 0 recs

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Shameful = you.

I may not be happy with Hillary's voting record or her tactics, but she is no John McCain. I will vote for her if she is the Dem nominee.

by Renie 2008-04-20 03:07PM | 0 recs

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I would happily donate to the DNC if it were clear that Obama is going to be the nominee. Without that assurance I'd rather donate to the DSCC or the DCCC, not that it would matter as a Clinton victory would likely signal a return to 90s Democratic politics and abandonment of the 50 state strategy anyway.

Basically, show me that Obama will be around to boost those downstream candidates in the new swing states.

by beermeister 2008-04-20 04:04PM | 0 recs

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Get over it.

We ain't got time for this crap. I'm for Obama and I'm not too happy with Hillary, but we can't waste any more time sitting around beating each other up while McCain gets free boot lickings from the media. For the sake of this country we have got to suck it up and deal no matter who the nominee winds up being. Don't believe me? Take a brief stroll through the dung over at the No Quarter blog, they're gleefully talking about how they're going to donate to and work for McCain if Hillary loses.

If Hillary wins I will do everything I can to get her elected, and will then do everything I can to make it difficult for her buddies to run the party into the ground.

by Renie 2008-04-20 08:01PM | 0 recs

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Ill spend my money on something more useful than Hillary leadership... like credit card debt.

by beermeister 2008-04-20 08:37PM | 0 recs