McCain Releases Incredibly Disjointed Ayers Attack Ad

For the fifth straight day, McCain's campaign is going after Barack Obama for his association with Bill Ayers. Only this time the attack comes in the form of a disjointed, nearly incomprehensible, national television ad that ties the former 60s radical to the subprime mortgage crisis.

Titled "Ambition," the spot - as Howard Wolfson noted - is "practically schizophrenic." After accusing Obama of showing back judgment in his associations, the ad blames "Congressional liberals" for fighting against more regulation. This from a self-proclaimed champion of deregulation.

"Obama's blind ambition," the script reads. "When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers. When discovered, he lied. Obama. Blind ambition. Bad judgment. Congressional liberals fought for risky sub-prime loans. Congressional liberals fought against more regulation. Then, the housing market collapsed costing you billions. In crisis, we need leadership, not bad judgment."

Because the spot is (likely) paid for with money from the joint McCain-RNC committee, McCain is forced to include a reference to another candidate - in this case "congressional liberals." And as such, the key accusations are dull if not confusing.

In the end, the ad is so transparent in its real goal - to keep discussion of Ayers on cable news - one has to wonder when the media will stop letting itself be played like a fiddle. The campaign says the spot will be televised "nationally."

Comments

[Johnjlws]

This ad reminds me of one of the mayor's answers to a Couric/Gibson/Debate/[insert whomever here] question. So, I conclude, the mayor is now writing ads as well?

Wow.

That mayoring a town of 7,000 really does prepare you to do a lot of stuff beyond moose hunting.

[jugiebeans]

again John???? Please stop with the ads!!! They are not working....you sunk too low for the last time and you better be prepared and have proof of the scandulous sh*t you have been saying for the debate on Wednesday! You are a terrible person and I am so glad that you will LOSE! You and your trophy wife and your ice queen of a VP will never see the inside of the White House unless Cindy and Sarah need to become cleaning ladies for minimum wage!!!!

[DemsUnite]

It's time the MSM report the story of McC's connection to Maj. Gen Singlaub his Iran-Contra connection. The American people need to hear this story. And also tell us of Palin's connectiions to the Alskan Independent Party.

[PitbullCatcher]

A letter to John McCain,

Mr. McCain, you have been weighed in the balances and your time is up. The decisions you have made regarding your campaign have been without regard to the American people. You have put yourself first and country last. Your once respected campaign rallies have now become hate rallies. You have allowed Sarah Palin to hi-jack your campaign rallies and turn them into forums for hate. This has opened the old wounds of racism and fear that continues to plaque the south. The south is one part of the country where you are above 50% in the polls. You nor your running mate are talking about real issues for the American people. The more you push division and hate you will be pushed down in the polls. The hands of God will not let you pass. The American people in this time of our history are not looking for messages filled with hate. Since you are not willing to take back the control you have given to Sarah Palin, you are heading for a political disaster that will be in the history books. Your time is up.

[Last-LiberalRepublicans]

HAHAHAHAHA!!

LIES an More LIES!!

Cindy McCains Says "No Negative Stuff"!
Cindy McCain lied to Ann Curry ..saying John want go negative.
Watch it on YOUTUBE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60k9IZ1LRC0

http://mudflats.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/palin-2006-vetting.pdf

I"m John McCain and I approve this message.

[noamjunior]

funny thing
Ayers and Obama's "association" is much more distant than
McCain's association with fellow GOP senator, Larry Craig
So if Obama is a terrorist because of Ayers
WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT MCCAIN AND CRAIG

[KeithWeb]

Inspired by this sublime spot, I've gone ahead and written a follow-up ad for
the McCain campaign to use, free of charge. I think it takes off from this interesting new
paranoid schizophrenic tac their camapign is taking. Enjoy!


New McCain Ad:

Barak Obama's secret ACORN project, headed by the puppetmaster William Ayers
is working on destroying world capitalism. And now, it wants even more power.

Recently, the liberal congress held a secret vote to give caterpillars tiny imlants.
These implants are now affecting the morgage rates, according to a code
written in 1968 in a secret meeting between Barak Obama and Ayers
in a small town in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia

Pick up your phones and call Nancy Pelosi now.
Tell her to stop the caterpillars, stop the secret injections, and to stop
having Barak Obama break into your house and messing with your stuff.

Palin/mccain 08

[AZ1]

Want to know a secret?

Sarah Palin was a member of the AIP.

New Video:

Sarah Palin Secessionists VP candidate (AIP) Alsakan independence party member video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8-ojQKc2L0

Where is the media on this?
Sarah Palin has some questions to anwser.

[Just2stressed]

John McCain is critiziing Sen. Obama about 'blind ambition'?

Maybe Sen. Obama's camp should make an ad where McCain admitted to having lied about his stance regarding the Confederate Flag.

Look at this video.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XwoE7s6PKI

[athenasword]

Wow. That ad is confusing, ineffective and really disjointed. People in my home state of Ohio will scoff at this. Even the uneducated/uninformed voter won't buy into this nonsense.

[chf2go]

I wonder if they realize when they say 'We need steady leadership ' We need good judgement' ' Change is coming' that they are telling people that Obama is going to win!

[piper1233]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH2iufUU1f4

[WendyKa]

See who Sarah has been "palling around with" Well hell, she SLEEPING with him!

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/10/sarah-palin-palling-around-wit.html

[Jabo22]

That's a really good video , and the horror movie music sets the tone. Love it.

Who is Barack Obama? Cmon lady, who the heck are you?

[AZ1]

NO she's not just sleeping with a AIP member she is one.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8-ojQKc2L0

[elgibby]

It's getting harder every day to control my rage against McCain and the RWNJ (right wing nut jobs). This lying has got to stop. Now the Democrats were AGAINST regulation? Really? There have to be consequences for lying in political ads/campaigns; losing the election is just not enough.
What we need is some kind of outfit to call out liars. Maybe a bipartisan or nonpartisan ethics unit within the FEC? An independent arm of Congress like the GAO?
Of course, we used to have a constitutionally protected vehicle for this: the Press. But even with the MSM starting to call McCain/Palin on their lies and "misstatements" in most stories (even The Associated Press, goshdarnit), it hasn't stopped the lies. Probably because of the right wing assault on journalism over the past 30 years and the press' performance over the past decade; now, even when the MSM does its job, it's ignored, and the RWNJs know it. (I've been a journalist for 40 years; you have no idea how it hurts me to type this.)

[tomjones44]

see the problem i would have with something like that (even though I desperately think we need one) is the similarity to the Ministry of Truth in the book 1984.

Who checks the fact checkers?

sort of an awful catch-22 that is going to take a creative solution

[BeltwayBette]

Aw come on now. Something disjounted from McCAin?

The man who after AIG tells us they are spending our 700B on million dollar fun junkets including spa treatments announces he wants us to fork over another $300B for Wall Street? Disjointed? OUt of touch with reality?

No kidding.