Campaign AdWatch: McCain's Loopy Lupines

I have been looking forward to this latest McCain ad, "Fact Check," ever since word of its imminent arrival crossed my desk. All I can say is, IT DOES NOT DISAPPOINT. It is uniquely, blissfully, breathtakingly stupid and it pretty much gave me seizures of laughter. This is the video that gave Kim Jong Il his stroke. The ad makes a feint at providing some sort of substantive comment, but it doesn't matter, because all anyone will be saying after they see this ad is, "OMG OMG TEH WOLVEZ ARE COMING BY SEAPLANE! CALL UP THE AERIAL HUNTERS!"

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Comments

[CaptainStormfield]

Thats wild

[FORLOMC]

Obama has to do everything, including vet McCain's VP choice. McCan't can't do anything, dear God he doesn't even speak for his own campaingn. Who are you people that want this thing as President. Are you insane???????

[scandinavian]

beyond our pay grade and wrong address; go to townhall.com with your question. just don't freak out.

[kellygrrrl]

I thought she loved Aerial Wolf Hunting

can't she just shoot the lawyers?

geez, guess she isn't SuperWoman afterall

[Jezreel]

I view McCain as a puppeteer and Palin as a small figure of a person operated from above with strings attached. I see Palin as a doll with a hollow head as far as policy and national interest goes. She is a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant, divisive and dishonest tasks for the Republican Party.

Just this morning The Washington Post today reported: on an intelligence forecast being prepared for the next president on future global risks. The report envisions a steady decline in U.S. dominance in the coming decades, as the world is reshaped by globalization, battered by climate change, and destabilized by regional upheavals over shortages of food, water and energy.

And in light of the challenges we face as a nation it is shameful that all McCain wants to talk about is lipstick on a pig!

[Jezreel]

This is sick. McCain, et al., is literally mocking the American political process and Americans in general. He has no regard for the truth or for American security for that matter. In a desperate effort to win an election and garner power for his Party he has placed his own political ambitions above national security and American economic stability. He's done this by choosing as a running mate someone who is clueless about national and domestic policies and foreign policy.

He's done this despite his own advanced age and his obvious shortcomings in the economic and domestic policy arena. McCain has created a smoke screen. He's playing three-card-monte with the future of more than 300 million Americans. His campaign is a sham and an illusion.

[TheEmptinessOfTruthiness]

I'm John McCann, and I have lost complete control over my message.

Release the hounds!!!

[bola47]

dear john mccain

go f++k yourself.

i am an american citizen and i approved of this message.

[FORLOMC]

He can't, he would need Rove's hand to get himself off.

[progressivelady]

I second that

[rksu747]

While my comment will be out of character for me, I have to be honest:
McCain does not have the range of motion in his shoulders to f*ck himself!

[JohnnieP]

I think the Witch of the West, Sarah Palin, is doing a good enough job of destroying herself. It seems Barack doesn't even have to raise a finger to do so.

[progressivelady]

You mean Mess-iah Sara

[AlanBJ]

Oh My God! The GOP is planning to sell our oil from Alaska to Japan, & they will raise the price in the US beyond belief. Pass this along:

September 2, 2008

The Honorable Samuel W. Bodman
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20585

Dear Secretary Bodman,

On June 3, 2008 and July 30, 2008 respectively, your Department issued and affirmed an order pursuant to Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act that will allow two major integrated oil companies – ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil – to export 98.1 billion cubic feet of Alaskan natural gas to Japan and other Pacific Rim countries. This order, which will allow the export of as much natural gas as is used by 1.4 million American families in a year, comes at a time when the President had demanded that the moratoria on oil and gas drilling along our environmentally-sensitive coastal areas be lifted and Americans are being warned that their winter heating bills are going to be dramatically higher. The Administration is trying to have it both ways – arguing that we need to drill everywhere because we don’t have adequate energy supplies, while finding that we have so much energy that big oil companies can export it overseas and keep prices here at home higher than they would otherwise be.
http://www.dailykos.com/

[kellygrrrl]

thanks

[UpstateNY]

Besides being a bundle of lies - this ad is just stupid. What are the wolves for - does anyone get that?

[eduvert]

The wolves are there to remind you that Palin is a major supporter of aerial gunning of wolves and, well, killing wolves anyway you can.

[distant mirror]

Well thank God Obama dropped opposition researchers in Alaska. The McCain didn't vet Palin and somebody had to! Obama doing the work for the American people as usual.

[JackLivigni]

Did no one notice how Palin's picture in the ad is bright and in color, and Obama's is grey and dark, highlighting his race? This is a racist ad.

[AshevilleVoice]

hahahaha

This must explain why Palin put a bounty on wolves. She authorized helicopters to chase packs until they could no longer run, and then either ground or aerial "hunters" could shoot them, cut off a forepaw, and claim $150 from the gov.

[Iluvdarin]

Animal Rights groups are very strong in this country. They are aware of Palin's support of aerial killing of wolves and her suing to remove the polar bear from the endangered species list. There are petitions are there. Please search and add your name. This looney woman must be stopped.

[valleygent]

Good...!!! I applaud Senator Obama for dispatching lawyers to vet this lipstick war pig. Destroy away. She is an outrage and McCain is a liar.