McCain Ad: Only We Can Fix The Economy

How dramatically the tone of the presidential campaign has shifted in just a few days. Last week, it was John McCain who was hitting Barack Obama on character issues, while the Illinois Democrat stuck mainly to policy. Today, it's just the opposite.

Hours after the Obama camp launched a television ad questioning McCain's honor, the McCain campaign released a spot strictly focused on the country's economic woes.

Titled "Crisis," the ad is certainly timely. It even includes a shot of Lehman Brothers, the troubled investment bank that filed for bankruptcy Sunday evening.

"'Only proven reformers John McCain and Sarah Palin can fix it," says the ad, which calls for "tougher rules on Wall Street" and "no special interest giveaways."

How much McCain can tread on Obama's turf (the Illinois Democrat scores better on the economy than foreign affairs) remains to be seen. But certainly this ad is recognition that economic matters will play a mega-role in the election, whether McCain likes it or not.

The spot is running on national television.

Comments

[NexusSix]

Obama needs to jump on this attack line NOW!!! He can't afford to let McCain take the mantle of economic reform like he did with the change mantra and muddy up the waters. Especially with a spineless media unwilling to call him on his BS.

He needs to come out on attack. There's no need to be timid and worry about being portrayed as the "angry black guy". With an electorate this angry no ones gonna care what color you are. What they'll care about is which side you are on.

[AnnieinOR]

only you can fix what you and your cronies caused??? isn't that like letting the fox in the henhouse? or the wolf guard the sheep?

[one4obama]

I would like to attend the church that McCain does on days when he does attend. I want to know what the congregation and his minister thinks of him and his lies.

Or, perhaps the removed "thou shall not tell bear false witness" from THEIR Bible.

Even in various versions of the Bible:

The Old Testament and New Testament of the Bible both contain statements that God cannot lie (Num 23:19, Ps 89:35, Hab. 2:3, Heb 6:13-18).

Various passages of the Bible feature exchanges that are conditionally critical of lying (Prov 6:16-19, Ps. 5:6), (Lev 19:11, Pr. 14:5, Pr. 30:6, Zep 3:13 ), (Isa 28:15, Da 11:27). Most famously, in the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt not bear false witness" (Exodus 20:2-17, Deuteronomy 5:6-21) a specific reference to perjury.

Does McCain call his minister daily (but should be hourly) to confess his sin of bearing false witness? Does he pray to God to be forgiven of his sines of bearing false witness?

I am sure that there comes a point after daily/hourly being ask for forgiveness by the same person for the same offense that he just writes them off as a no-good and stops forgiving.

McCain - there ain't no air conditioning or Prada shoes where you will end up!

[one4obama]

"Only proven reformers John McCain and Sarah Palin can fix it," says the ad, which calls for "tougher rules on Wall Street" and "no special interest giveaways.­"

If McCain were truly a proven reformer, what the heck has he been doing the last 26 years that he has held office? Why doesn't he have a record of at least attempting to fix the mess (even if he was not able to succeed)?

Is this like "I know where Bin Ladin is and I know how to catch him"?

Or like "Sarah Palin knows more about energy than anybody else"?

How much more laughable can the McCain campaign get before they are call out on it by ALL of the MSM?

And why isn't the MSM being held accountability for the complicity in McCain's lies and deception?

With every new day that the GOP gets gutsier and gutsier with their laughable lies, I end up running to the bathroom with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Could this country really end up with McCain/Palin as our leaders?

[arthur2008]

The "honorable' John McCain has completely lost his bearings and is utterly shameless at this point. He is more than williing to look Americans in the eye and tell them that the thugs who have picked their pockets for the past eight years should be given four more years. How, though, can he look at himself in a mirror. Country first? Hardly!

[MJJM]

John McCain is LYING!!!

[MidwestGal]

OK - I've been wanting to ask this question ever since the first McCain ads came out. What the heck are those little orbs coming out of McCain's head at the end of each commercial? There are several different poses used but all have little orbs floating out. I have my own opinion on what they are - either "going to the light" or brain cells leaving his bean - but I would like to know what their campaign is communicating. Any ideas?

[DavieB36]

Lies and the lying liars that tell them!!!

[rock2casbah]

Thanks for new ammo McSame. Even Greenspan has discredited the tax cut gimmick of McCain. Said it is not even feasible. His party presided over the deregulation of banking so what is he talking about fixing it for, with a campaign knee deep in lobbyists? What did he show Failin for? What does she know about the economy Alaska is a welfare sate save the pipeline which she had nothing to do with. It was there before she got there, and pocketed enough earmarks to suport 10 more states. So load up the gun and let's get started Team Obama.

[marc1antony]

Phil Gramm: nation of whiners - top economic advisor to mccheese

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

[clover2]

I wish more Americans would develop better memories. Ronald Reagan left this country with a huge deficit. The Savings and Loan Crisis of the early 1990s--another instance of a huge taxpayer bail out--also happened under the GOP. History says John McCain is wrong. He will not be able to fix the problem unless he suddenly turns his back on the unfettered markeplace/ trickle-down philosophy of the GOP.

The Republican (perhaps no longer so) economist Kevin Phillips wrote about this in his 1993 book "Boiling Point." When taxeson the very rich are too low, it encourages a mindless greed pursued through irresponsible means. Reading his book, it's deja vu.

[arthur2008]

"There's nothing wrong with the economy -- investment bankers are just a bunch of whiners."

Phil Gramm,Secret economic advisor to the McCain campaign

[CashMurda407]

Did ANYBODY catch that last line...."T­HE CHANGE WE NEED"!

Really? Is John McCain biting Obama's new slogan?

Someone needs to write a story on that.

[Heavenhelpusall]

Who's the "we" in "we failed Americans"? Is that you Johnny Bush?

[richeeee]

If he is a reformer, why is he still in bed with Phil Gramm, the architect of the financial crisis we now face? Why all the lobbyists working for him? No one has made this fact common knowledge to the American public.