McCain Celeb Attack Returns In New Ad (VIDEO)

The McCain camp put out another installment in its anti-Obama "Celeb" ad series today. This time they're hammering Obama on taxes. The spot starts with a line about Obama's financial prosperity, a sort of counter-intuitive move considering the recent fracas over McCain's wealth and multiple homes.

"Celebrities don't have to worry about family budgets, but we sure do," the announcer says. "We're paying more for food and gas, making it harder to save for college, retirement."

The ad is not particularly original, suggesting that either this is not a serious buy (no word where it will air, though it will likely be shuffled into a previous purchase) or that the McCain camp still thinks it can bleed Obama on the celebrity meme.

UPDATE: A Democratic source emails this tidbit, undermining the idea that Obama (a celeb) doesn't have to worry about family budgets but "we" (presumably including McCain) do. "McCain spends MORE a year on house STAFF ($273,000), than the average person's home is worth ($218,000)."

This is according to personal financial disclosure forms.

Comments

[Tommygun264]

Obama owns 1 home valued at approximately $1 million, depending on the market. McSame owns 8 homes (or 13 if you count the 6 separate houses on his Sedona "ranch") valued at approximately $10.3 million. In 2006 McSame spent $274,000 on salaries for his servants alone. Friday morning McSame took a 9 vehicle convoy to the local Starbucks to get himself a cappuccino. Yeah, McSame is really in touch with the common man.

[DRaymond]

The Republicans don't run ads based on ideas or facts, they run ads based on FEARS. Democrats will raise your taxes and cost you your livelihood. You know that because we said it about Kerry and we said it about Gore and we said it about Clinton and we said it about Dukakis and we said it about Carter and we said it about Mondale and we have said it about every democrat who has ever run for any office in any legislative body in the country. So it HAS to be true. You have heard it so often. Nobody could possibly lie to you that many times, can they?

[swift goat pet for truth]

Himmler would be so proud.

[independent32955]

McCain is going to quickly find (whether he accepts and understands it or not) that these celebrity pieces aren't going to work when they come from the guy with 7 homes.

Find something else to cry about Johnnie. It's not because Obama is a celebrity that people flock to support him, it's because of his IDEAS...see, a good person with GOOD IDEAS can go a long way...a tired old man with nothing but attacks, isn't going to end up an even more tired, grumpy loser come November 5th.

[JamesInDenver]

WOW This is definitely is worth repeating!!!

"McCain spends MORE a year on house STAFF ($273,000), than the average person's home is worth ($218,000)."

[alphax]

Are you surprised?

[TurgidCaterwauling]

Bush + McCain = 12.

[marc1antony]

Eight houses, 5 million means rich... uh, yeah, tell us again who is out of touch.

[Tropiholic]

the next mrs mc*gaffe

[ChristianEcon.com]

What kind of demo is this ad pointed at? One'd have to be really, really dumb and really, really out of it to believe Obama would raise their taxes as opposed to McCain, or to believe economic disaster isn't a result of Republican ideology but that it's due to celebrity.

[noamjunior]

Then again, you would have to be pretty dumb to vote for an AWOL cokehead who says he talks to god

[swift goat pet for truth]

Well, you just described most of America.

[Wigelah]

Are they kidding with this? I kept waiting for someone from SNL or Mad TV to step into the frame with a punchline.

[LanosIceland]

Don't panic, the writers are working overtime. McHomes is toast.

[wolf58]

this from mr I'm worth a 100 million bucks and have so many homes i can't remeber? Please, really who is out of touch?

[soithoni]

I don't get it. How is Obama a celebrity? He is SO different from Paris Hilton and John McCain. He has a grounding. He is real. He has a long history of fighting from the bottom up. He has a family that is storybook only because he made it that way. Look at those kids. You can't tell me their grounding is an accident. Obama has a history of fighting for the underdog. He knows the price of milk without notecards. He is as American as apple pie, proud of that fact, and bristles when his integrity is attacked. As do we all if we have any self-respect.

We want our self-respect back, Mr Obama!!

McCain is as fake as they come. No self-respect. That maverick label? Ha. As if he would say exactly what he thought!!! He can't say *anything* without having to qualify it. Without your actually thinking that the OPPOSITE of what he says is the real truth. And could you BE any more out of touch with common people than he is? 9 car cavalcade to go get a cup of coffee!! Oh, excuse me, cappucino... Ptoooey!! Could McCain say anything without pandering to one group or another? So far, nooooooooooo.

[brooklyncitizen]

Ok here's the thing_ you are THINKING and analyizing like an intelligent person would...the Republican base is not thinking nor capable of analysis...this is what Republican candidates count on each time and it truly works ;Reagan, and Bush.

I know Republicans that are HURTING in this economy-lost jobs/homes and are still backing McCain- and it is those two buzz words: "Raise Taxes". THere is no ability to look at things as part of a larger whole rather they vote from a single issue "thinking" knee jerk point of view- gay marriage, etc.

[swift goat pet for truth]

The GOP is skilled at lying.
They are the BEST at it.

That is why the Dems lose.

[w&cheneysuck]

I find it interesting that he would put this REALLY OLD WOMAN in an ad; doesn't this reinforce his OLD base (i.e supports the fact that he is OLD)? LOL!

[emory]

2 PARTS OF THOSE STATEMENTS WERE MISSING FROM THAT COMMERCIAL.

FIRST AFTER THEY SAY HE WANTS TO RAISE TAXES (FOR THE RICH)

SECOND WHERE IT SAY THIS WOULD RESULT IN ECONOMIC DISASTER (FOR THE COORPERATE CEO'S)

[SWEETPB307]

Rezko Reality
August 22, 2008
McCain misfires as he attacks Obama's home purchase.
Summary
On the defensive over the extent of multiple McCain homes, the GOP candidate strikes back. But his TV spot gives an oversimplified and misleading account of how Obama bought his own $1.6 million house in Chicago.

The ad says Chicago power broker Tony Rezko got "political favors" including "$14 million from taxpayers." But there's no evidence of any connection to the Obama home purchase. The $14 million was to build apartments for low-income seniors. Obama wrote a letter supporting the "worthy" project, but both men say Rezko didn't ask for the letter.
It says Rezko "purchased part of the property [Obama] couldn't afford." Rezko's wife did buy an adjoining tract but later sold the land at a profit. Obama paid market price for his home.

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/rezko_reality.html



It's not the Ad's that bother me as much as the Lack of Prime Time reporting that they are Lies AD's. I really feel they are not doing our older generation any justice, they are the one missing the truth...And they are the ones who really made this historic election possible (ALL OF THEM!)

And I'm sure many MSM personnel like me have grandparent and greatparents.

And Here's the response
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrjtttXcuPs&eurl=http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gG5sWd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz5oHvXzSzo

[swift goat pet for truth]

Know what you mean. I am from Hawaii. I saw the beaches Obama was at during his vacation. They are all public beaches. There are no public beaches in Hawaii.

Corporate Media aired the charge, not the correction, nor the facts.

[olivia]

This just begs for an ad about McCain's 4 10 11 houses whatever it is he cannot even remember, and how he cannot remember which car he drove last year.