Obama Ad Goes After McCain's Inner Bush, Eye Rolls

Barack Obama is out with the first post-debate campaign ad. He goes directly after what was perceived to be one of John McCain's best lines from Wednesday night -- his proclamation that he is "not President Bush" -- and, in the process, highlights some of the more peculiar facial expressions made by the Arizona Republican.

"True ... but you did vote with Bush 90% of the time," goes the script. "Tax breaks for big corporations and the wealthy. But almost nothing for the middle class -- same as Bush. Keep spending ten billion a month in Iraq while our own economy struggles -- same as Bush."

The spot, titled "90 Percent," contains shots of McCain rolling his eyes, blinking and looking like a deer in the headlights -- as sure a suggestion as any that the Obama campaign thought they won last night's debate as much (if not more) on style as substance.

Hours after Obama's ad was released, McCain responded with one of his own: a one-minute spot in which the Arizona Republican speaks directly into the camera, admonishes the Bush years, and never mentions Obama by name.

Tilted "Fight," the McCain ad seems almost transparent in its purpose: paint the Senator as the candidate railing against Bush's record and Obama as the product of D.C. Note the quotes he highlights in the script.

"The last eight years haven't worked very well, have they?" the Senator says. "I'll make the next four better. Your savings, your job and your financial security are under siege. Washington is making it worse -- bankrupting us with their spending. Telling us paying higher taxes is "patriotic"? And saying we need to "spread the wealth around"?"

Comments

[luvobama]

Landslide November 4th. Watch for it!

[DeanThoreau]

John McCain is now trying sincerity how quaint.
Unfortunately, much of the press still thinks he does no wrong.
I feel that t many people are inking Obama hait i the bag and wil not go out and vote now

[KafkaTamura]

He's a joke.

McCain?

[abby4ever]

A warning from Obama:

"For those of you who are feeling giddy or cocky and think this is all set, I just [have] two words for you: New Hampshire," the Democratic presidential nominee said during a fundraiser breakfast in New York. "You know I've been in these positions before where we were favored and the press starts getting carried away and we end up getting spanked. And so that's another good lesson that Hillary Clinton taught me."

"We've got 19 days," Obama said. "We're going to have to work absolutely as hard as we've ever worked in our lives in order to just to get to the start of what is going to be a very difficult and very challenging but ultimately a very fulfilling four years where we can get this country back on track."
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Obama never talks through his hat, he will have good reason to issue this warning.

Here's the link:

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/16/campaign.wrap/index.html

[MomsHugs]

Love the ad - hope to see it where I live now (GA). We worked hard to register voters & now are going door-to-door. An ad like that would help a lot.

[KiwisCanFly]

Obama's ad is really a good one, its factual and its funny.

[ListenPeople]

Stealing Obama's style in a commerical, yet, again!!!! No creativity!

[Joe the Plumber]

Just found out that I'm a fraud! I'm a fraud just like the GOP! What is is world coming too?

[AnalyzeIT]

LOL. But you'll get plenty of marriage proposals.

OBAMA-BIDEN

[MomsHugs]

To the moderator: It said my post had already been posted so I'm not sure if I hit post twice just now. I thought I'd canceled out of my reply to "Suzient" and copied my comments into a new post. In any event, please post the 2nd one. Thank you - MomsHugs (aka Eve)

[Hirnlego]

Is it true John McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time?


Yes, it's true, according to Congressional Quarterly's assessment of McCain's voting record.

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_it_true_john_mccain_voted_with.html

[ObamAtomic]

The Obama/Ayers comparison is not valid.You know the reason,,,,,Tr0lls.

[377thCSH]

if you wanna play the guilt by association game, lets do this, mccain was "palling" around with barack at the debate last night, so that makes mccain a terrorist too.

[pons1595]

Advice to McCain: It's the economy, idiot like my friend said today, "I have enough to live comfortably for the rest of my life, as long as I'm hit by a bus tomorrow."

[DLB]

So Obama's campaign is running a commercial comparing McCain to Bush? That sounds an awful lot like "guilt by association". Wasn't the Obama campaign attacking McCain for doing the same with a Obama/Ayers commercial?

I guess the Obama/Ayers comparison is valid.

[Freedomscap]

If that's how you reason, no wonder you support the McCain/Palin ticket.

[DLB]

Yes, I reason. I guess if you don't you support Obama/Biden.

[E K]

no dear.

running an ad featuring john mccain with charles keating, gordon libby, or the council for world freedom would be more comparable to the inane attempts to link obama and ayers.

and if you caught the end of the video, mccain himself compared himself to bush.

but thanks for trying. your logic would land you a sweet job with the mccain campaign.

[idontknowanything]

Show me a photo of Obama manhugging Ayers.

[SydneyS]

McCain not only was hugging Bush, but also he kept smelling his arm pits!

[ListenPeople]

Oh, did I miss the picture of Obama eating cake with Ayers the day after Katrina hit New Orleans? Or the 4-5 hugs and kisses photographed of the two of them?

Try again.

[DLB]

Did Obama have to eat cake with Ayers the day tha Katrina hit for the two of them to be cut from the same cloth?

You try again.

[dbdzen]

This is the most damaging ad Obama has released in a long time. If he pours 5 million dollars into this ad in swing states, he will win. It's a negative ad but there is no hate or spite in it and it ends with a quote from John McCain himself, contradicting himself while looking straight at the camera. This is good, good stuff and it came out at the right time.

[Exhaust]

Yeah...when was that McCain quote made? That's the real question.