Obama Ad Targets McCain's "Vile," "Truth Be Damned" Distortions

As promised by campaign manager David Plouffe last week, the Obama team is "taking the fight" to John McCain with a tough new ad entitled "Honor." With most of the spot's script coming from editorials blasting the Arizona Republican's recent distortions on the stump and on the air, the only live-action shot is a 2000-era clip of McCain, in which he says, "I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land."

"What's happened to John McCain?" the narrator asks, before diving into the recent media blurbs calling the Republican nominee's recent tactics "vile" and "dishonorable" -- and knowingly so, "truth be damned."

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The ad follows through on a campaign narrative that emerged late last week, when Obama spokespeople began saying McCain would "rather lose his integrity than lose an election." Over the weekend, the Obama camp sent a stinging response to a McCain attack, with Bill Burton saying: "We will take no lectures from John McCain who is cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern Presidential campaign history. His discredited ads with disgusting lies are running all over the country today. He runs a campaign not worthy of the office he is seeking."

Unlike some recent McCain ads that have misleadingly quoted news sources, this Obama ad seems to have fairly represented the new conventional wisdom that McCain has gone too far with some attacks. With even Karl Rove admitting that McCain's ads have stretched the bounds of truth over the weekend, this is one counter-attack ad that's not likely to be challenged by FactCheck.org.

Script:

BARACK: I'm Barack Obama and I approved this message.

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John McCain, then

McCain: I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land.

ANNCR: What's happened to John McCain?

He's running "the sleaziest ads ever." "Truly vile."

"Dishonest smears."

That he repeats even after its been "exposed as a lie"

"truth be damned"
A "disgraceful, dishonorable campaign."

After voting with Bush 90% of the time...proposing the same disastrous economic policies...

It seems "deception" is all he has left.

Comments

[Scottiedog]

Change vs. Change the Subject!

[lilsongbird101]

Deception is all the man had in the first place. For out of the mouth, the heart speaketh.

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[Justathough]

Well, everything you just said, is or totally twisted and taken out of context by the media or a lie.
What about the lie that Obama will raised taxes? He will cut down taxes. Only the very, very rich will have to pay more taxes. The line never be proud of the USA? She said that she was proud of the USA because of the democratic movement she saw. That is something different.
When I red the speech of Palin, is was lie after lie, stretched truth after stretched truth.
I do not care who is winning, but I like a democracy where people can vote on issues and facts, not on smears and untruths.

[whisperswen]

what a bunch of nonsense there is no difference between any of the politicians once in office
it all about power nothing more, and You people give it too them

[knowledge is power]

Watch Romney slam McCain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY5Plqs5d98

[LightShifter]

McCain is like Bush not only in his voting record, but also in the way he lies.... This has been the Bush/Cheney game since 9/11... The republican's have never let the Truth stop them before, why should they stop the lies now?

"I am NOT a crook!" - "tricky" Dick Nixon

How the hell do these pathological liars ever even get to this level? Shouldn't we be screening these candidates for mental illness before they even get that far? Let's ask them all to take psychological tests and see if they'll agree to do it... If not, they must be hiding something. We need to protect the American people from more than just terrorists - We need to protect hem from crooked and mentally ill politicians too!

[skyglider]

Obama to John McCain:

"As Abraham Lincoln said: Stop telling LIES about me, or I will have to to tell the TRUTH about you".

Barack Obama

[OlderBudWeiser]

Very satisfying when you can hammer a liar with the truth, in a public way.

[MuchMadness]

This should be on the front page, right next to the economy stories.

[sleeplesseye]

John McCain and Sarah Palin have *ZERO* credibility when it comes to our economy, and McCain and his chief economic guru Phil Gramm were chiefly amongst those who caused the latest economic problems!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9246.html
http://www.politicor.com/uncategorized/john-mccain-deregulation-hawk-criminal/

John McCain has a longstanding record of irresponsible deregulation that has cost Americans billions... and Barack Obama isn't going to let McCain run away from his record!

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The Republican Party has abandoned its fiscally conservative roots and have endangered the American Dream. Can we, as Democrats, Independents, and disillusioned conservatives tired of Big Government Neoconservative overreach, work together and do the hard work to fix what they broke?!

Yes. *WE* can!

[blastit]

I still think the Obama team needs to come out and attack McCain personally he' a liar...and I wish someone would call him out, is funny since how he got quesioned on the View and directly confronted with his lies he's now admitting to his lies

I'll keep saying it The Dems have the truth on their side..if only they would use it to its fullest potential..

Call a liar a liar

[stanjz]

Wright and Ayers are kindergarten kids compared to McCains associations. He and his friends cost the American tax payers billions and supported human right's violaters around the world.

Financial wizard Warren Buffett has labeled the risky new investment instruments Gramm unleashed "financial weapons of mass destruction." They have fed the subprime mortgage crisis like an accelerant. While the nation's investment bankers are paying a heavy price for their unbridled greed (in billions of dollars of write-offs), But even more damning are Gramm's intimate ties, through his wife, Wendy, to Enron, whose mainpulation of the markets was made possible by Gramm's bill.
National Campaign Co-Chairman Tom Loeffler Resigned After Revelation He Lobbies For Saudi Arabia
Regional Campaign Manager Doug Davenport Resigned After It Came To Light He Lobbied For Myanmar's Military Junta
Former McCain Energy Adviser And Top Fundraiser Eric Burgeson Lobbied Federal Government On Energy Issues While Working For McCain.

Charlie Black Is McCain’s Senior AdviserBlack’s Firm Lobbied for Somalia’s Dictator While Black Lobbied for Somalia, Siad Barre’s Army Killed 40,000 – 50,000 CiviliansBlack . Black, lobbied for “Mobuto Sese Seko of Zaire Mobutu Was One Of World’s Richest Men, Let Tens-Of-Thousands Of Children Starve.

In 1981, Charles Keating and John McCain swindled thousands of small depositors, mostly retired seniors out of their life savings. John McCain was formally rebuked by the Senate Ethics Committee for exercising “poor judgment” for intervening with the federal regulators on behalf of Keating.

[SensibleOne]

Maybe Barry can learn how to spell "political." Really, it isn't that difficult.

[Barryson]

"Truth Be Damned." Yessir! I like it!

[imsosure]

That low road is typically traveled by low life's like Johnny boy. At least it's familiar ground, he won't get lost. The rest of us will continue to sit back and watch him self-destruct.