Spin Baby Spin!

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

In case you had some idea that the so-called “Straight Talk Express” candidates were, you know dealing in “straight talk” consider this ad, (at left) that they ran a bit pre-maturely.

They were in such a hurry to get the spin out they forgot to find a “famous person” who would go along with the pre-scripted praise for Palin’s debate performance.

Embarrassing? Not if you’re shameless.

Tags: Biden, Error, Famous Person, Humor, Internet Ad, McCain, Obama, Palin, Politics
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Lonely-tarian Party

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Lonely-tarian Party

(Source)

The only thing that would have made this picture better would have been if it were Ron Paul and Ralph Nader together.

Tags: Election, Humor, Libertarian, Lonely-tarian, Politics, Ralph Nader, Ron Paul
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According to the Right Wing

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Here’s the way the world looks, if you’re on the far Right of US politics.

See the whole list here!

The list above is excerpted from the Arkansas Blog of the Arkansas Times.

Tags: Left vs Right, Politics
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Deeply Held Beliefs - For Sale!

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpmFd25tRqo

Much has been written lately of Sen. Barack Obama’s new “negative” TV commercials, the very latest of which is featured above. Some decry this as “politics as usual” and not what Obama had promised going into the campaign.

I’m taking a different view… (surprised? - didn’t think so). There’s a huge difference between ads like “Seven” and the negative ads of prior campaigns. Ads like Seven don’t “Swift Boat” John McCain, they take a simple, albeit unflattering fact, about the opponent and feature it prominently. Swift Boat ads take a fact and twist it completely out of context.

The famous ad featured soldiers who said “I served with John Kerry” which while technically true they were in the service at the same time as John Kerry, the same could be said for a million other guys. The Swift Vets used that language to twist viewers perceptions into believe they served together, when in fact they did not. (Source) In the Swift Boat ads, veterans of Viet Nam who did not serve on John Kerry’s boat, openly questioned his military valor, and worthiness of earning his Purple Hearts and Bronze and Silver Stars.

Even John McCain agreed that the Swift Boat ads were wrong:

“I deplore this kind of politics,” McCain said. “I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is, none of these individuals served on the boat (Kerry) commanded. Many of his crew have testified to his courage under fire. I think John Kerry served honorably in Vietnam.” - Source

But now that’s all water under the bridge, you might say, because for his 2008 campaign John McCain has accepted $70,000 in campaign contributions from the SwiftVets financiers. (Source). One of the SwiftVets has even appeared in a McCain TV ad. (Source)

But really we shouldn’t be surprised by this flip flop of McCain’s deeply held position, because he’d already taken $10,000 from the Wyly brothers of Texas. (Source) The Wyly brothers you may remember ran an anti-McCain ad in 2000 when they were backing George Bush. McCain at the time called them “Wiley Coyotes” and urged:

“Are we going to allow George W. Bush to hijack this election? Tell them to keep their dirty money in the state of Texas, my friends.” (Source)

Now I guess we all know what it means to be the “original maverick”, you just sell out your deeply held beliefs in order for a shot at the White House. I guess Obama was right, that is one house we can’t afford to let McCain occupy.

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Tags: Election 08, McCain, Negative Ads, Obama, Politics, Swift Boats, SwiftVets
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