Obama Hits Palin's Debate Performance In Ad (VIDEO)

Barack Obama's campaign is already out with an ad based on the vice presidential debate -- specifically, Sarah Palin's inability to defend John McCain's health care plan. The clip uses Joe Biden's line that the McCain-Palin health care plan is a "bridge to nowhere." Watch:

The Politico reports that the ad is part of a broader health-care focused strategy:

Obama's aides said the campaign would key in not on something Palin said, but rather on what she didn't: Her failure to offer a detailed defense of McCain's plan to finance a $5,000 healthcare tax credit by treating employers' healthcare payments as taxable - something Democrats relish hitting both as a "radical" healthcare scheme and a tax hike.

The campaign had already decided to attack McCain's healthcare plan, and the debate exchange will help drive that focus, they said.

"We're on a big offensive on John McCain's healthcare plan," said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. "I think Sen. Biden did a terrific job today of describing why middle class families should fear John McCain's health care plan. She didn't answer the attack."

Palin's silence - she attacked Obama's plan as "government run," but didn't return to McCain's - was "a huge missed opportunity," Plouffe said, "because I will assure you this: Every voter in every battleground state is going to know that John McCain is taxing healthcare for the very first time. Twenty-one million people lose their healthcare because small businesses will drop it."

Read more about the new ad ">here.

Comments

[poobah]

People are talking about rating a debate. Where was the debate? By definition, refusing to participate and answer questions with nothing more than disjointed incomprehensible talking points doesn't constitute a debate. I guess to some all the winks and by gollys and you betchas constituted points in the scoring.

[DonDavis]

Desperate McCain Campaign to Launch the ULTIMATE Negative Ad
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=3767

[suejester]

Well Obama's ad isn't entirely accurate.

According to the IRS tax law and personal experience. Domestic Partnerships are subjected to having their health taxed based on the fair market value of the health plan the primary sponser is a part of.

This has been going on for years.

[Carolab]

So I guess that means you are okay with McCain's plan?

[suejester]

absolutly not...I'm not ok with being taxed and not recieving the same rights as heterosexuals...

The government has no issue discriminating against gays, and then add insult to injury by taxing us...

[simkmer]

Great Ad. Go Obama/Biden! Look forward to Tuesday's debate.

[Heddie]

I saw them all on television clips for the first time yesterday. I never watch it in
general- I receive accurate impressions from the internet and am able to read
energy very well. But seeing them , I was amazed, just amazed at the sincerity
and ease and warmth and confidence of Obama (in his speaking),
vs the whine-y
tenseness ; the strange desperation of McCain's news announcements and speeches,
as well as the ball of hugely unresolved anger , defensiveness (it's been
there in Sarah for a very, very long time, folks), and tension from Sarah projected
out to hide and deflect from her overall ignorance and lack of genuine education
about the issues facing our country. 5 minutes was all I needed (or even wanted
of this !)

[Star2000dancer]

Good read...right on..that's what I see too.

[Roschelle]

she definitely past the test during this debate....­considerin­g the GOP had the bar so low one of her high heel wizard of oz "ruby colored" slippers couldn't have fit underneath. and still she's cocky enough to call obama an embarrassment

http://roschellenelson.blogspot.com/2008/10/palin-has-nerve-to-call-obama.html

[DonDavis]

Palin"s Advice: Put MORE Vice in the Vice Presidency
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=3752

[Dreadsen]

This is all the information in one package on Palin's love for the Anti American AIP.

A lot of work was put into this Article. There is nothing else that needs to be said.

http://www.youdecide2008.com/2008/10/02/palin-as-the-treasonous-trojan-horse-for-the-aip/

You have all your video evidence and damaging audio recordings. I hope they use it.

Don't be scared spread this to everyone. This isn'tbogus boogeyman hokey like the Obama emails that are debunked by snopes either!

[carriellbee]

Thank you for posting this. I've sent it out to everyone I know.

[janfin]

I am scared at the posibility of McCain winning, for many reasons, and very importantly due to his position on healthcare coverage. I am a single, widowed mom and and a social worker, living from paycheck to paycheck, literally. I have fairly decent healthcare coverage, but every year the co-pays go up and up, and like that recent ad on TV, I had to have a hospital procedure and am getting bills from the hospital that I can't afford, despite my coverage. I am putting off several visits to specialists because the co-pays are killing me. I can only imagine the position my daughter and I, and so many Americans, will be in if McCain somehow gets in. Please, people, we can't let this happen!

[natureman]

So Obama is going to cover your co-pays too? He's going to cover all the uninsured and help the people who are already insured? Wow, this guy really is the Messiah!!!

[Wingit]

Well McCain will reform it; whatever that means.

[pie8ter]

You know I despised Hillary during the primaries. But I wish Hillary was debating Palin. Hillary would mopped the floor with Palin that night. Biden did a fantastic job but he had to tip toe around so he doesn't look sound sexist and condescending. Hillary would've knocked this beauty queen down big time.

[leslie6042]

I agree, but if Hillary was the Democratic VP candidate, Palin would not be the Republican VP candidate - McCain would not have chosen her. He only chose her to be a token woman on the ticket.

[pie8ter]

I think this process is unfair to the candidate who announces his/her VP pick first. Instead both presumed nominees should announce their VP picks to the election commission at the same time in person. The election commission should make it public. This way neither candidate will have any advantages. I seriously think had 0bama knew that McCaln is picking a female for VP, he would have gone for either Hillary or another female candidate.

[PS4OBAMA]

Hillary probably would not have accepted the role of VP of the US for one reason, she already has a website to her campaign for 2012. Kind of hard to the VP of a candidate running for President; then after 4 years, leave to pursue the POTUS in 2012. Did you ever think of that....find her website.....

[phae100]

So then we should consider ourselves lucky that Obama didn't pick Hillary (I would have thought he was nuts to pick someone who mentioned RFK's assassination in the way she did) because Palin has been a boon. Imagine if McCain had picked a qualified woman.

[Wingit]

If Hillary was the VP candidate, McCain would not have picked Palin. She is strictly a sexist and political pick. He would have picked Romney, who would have been able to make some inteligent remarks about the economy and would have been a qualified vice president..

[pegbo]

I didn't despise Hillary, in fact I was a supporter, and am not an Obama supporter. I agree whole heartedly. But they would not have tried to get away with anything like her stupid winking or folksyness, she would have looked ridiculous. Actually she did look ridiculous, but it would have been even worse. But you know what, Hillary would have probably been debating someone else. They would have never chosen this imposter if Obama would have chosen Hillary. And the race would not even be close. I am not knocking Biden, I love him. But all the Hillary supporters would have been for the Obama ticket and we know how many of them there were.

[SueMVetforObama]

Please do not split the party! Vote Democratic. If you believed in Hil, then follow her lead.

She really wouldn't want you to vote for a campaign with that "Bright, Shiny Object" that is Palin.

Palin had women paying for Rape Kits. She's not real.........

[pegbo]

OOps. That is I am now an Obama supporter. I guess I should proof read before I post!!

[janfin]

I thought the same thing--though I liked Hillary. LIttle Miss Sarah might not have resorted to her eye batting, phony smiling and obnoxious "folksiness" if she were debating a strong, competent, informed, and intelligent woman like Hillary.

[pie8ter]

"if she were debating a strong, competent, informed, and intelligent woman like Hillary."

There is no question about that. In fact, it is an insult to Hillary's competency to mention Palin's name in the same sentence.

[DonDavis]

A Sneak Preview: How a President Palin Would Handle the 3 AM Phone Call
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=3733

[patmancando]

Obama has already said he would get his advisers together..­..........­.said it on Chris Matthews college tour spotlight on 0bama program.

[hapiguy]

Come on John, send her out in the "real" world,,,she has all the answers and did so well in the Debate,
Let her go on MSNBC, NBC, CNN, PBS, ABC,CBS, they will be kind to the kitten,,,ya betcha

[patmancando]

Not when they are in the tank for 0bama.

[JHancock]

That's right, those ignorant MSM have chosen intelligence, competence and levelheadedness over stupid, airheaded erratic, nasty, lying, ego-maniacs.

[Bush 08]

yeah biden must have been waiting for that one. it's almost like she teed it up for him and he hit it out of the park...

[Pacojam]

I heard that Palin is going to get nasty attacking Obama.

I don't see why Palin is so off limits to attack.

I seems sexist to me.

[rex2112]

BUT, its NOT seist for her to USE her sexuality for their own purposes? WINKING AT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CONTANTLY, HELLO!
I say she's a Stepford Wife. If you watch clips of her previous debates for her gubinatorial campaign, she DIDN'T TALK LIKE THAT. IT'S ALL A RUSE PEOPLE. THEY ARE PULLING THE WOOL OVER OUR EYES, LYING TO OUR FACES AT EVERY TURN! THIS INDEPENDENT ISN"T BUYING!

[patmancando]

Maybe she has an eye condition.­..........­....!

[natureman]

Maybe you've become to entranced with Tina Fey who overdid the occasional wink as an extreme for humour. Sarah winking constantly? Just keep throwing crap at the walls and see what sticks.

[mk16000]

I agree totally. She should be fair game. Running for VP is serious business. The American public need to be informed about the candidates. Biden should attach her ineffectiveness to to VP focusing on her poor grasp of national policy issues. The woman can't utterance an intelligent word about policies. She is truly a joke. Here is a good ad for the Obama camp: feature McCain's poor and hasty judgement relative to selecting Palin-which is an example of how he would make decisions in the White House.

[kburlz]

Biden soooooo kicked her ass! She did better than the low expectations, but Biden was on his game.


p.s. enough with the Keating stuff. They'll probably use it if they need to, but there is no reason now. Comment on the video here, if you don't mind.

[rex2112]

Let's send her robotic talking point tush back to ALaska!

[natureman]

I'd like to see her tush, LOL

[luckyrico1]

Why should we lay off the Keating stuff? Cindy's close ties to Keating and her loads of dough make it so obvious that they have never understood how the average American lives.