MyDD :: Obama should hit back

Obama should hit back - he's too weak.

by MS01 Indie, Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 03:23:13 PM EST

Every once in awhile someone writes a diary complaining because they don't think the Obama campaign is hitting back hard enough on McCain. Well, here's a new ad that should please those people. I couldn't find a source for the ad only so I used this MSNBC clip that discusses it. The ad starts around 2:30 in.

Update [2008-7-30 16:20:55 by MS01 Indie]: Here is a link to an article with a video of the ad by itself. Thanks to Glaurung downthread for posting the link.

Then, just for the fun of it, there is this new anti-McCain video that has just been released on youtube. It has already been placed in a front page diary. I thought it was good enough to get another plug.

Update [2008-7-30 15:59:10 by MS01 Indie]: I had to add this video. I found a link to it on TPM.

Tags: obama, mccain, youtube, ad, campaign (all tags)

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Re: Obama should hit back - he's too weak. (none / 0)

Obama's best ads are one's that never air on TV but are made by insurgents and put on youtube.

just today there is a piece about McCain's 520$ european shoes, meanwhile McCain's campaign is calling obama elitist?

where is the hitback?

also, there's a great article saying that McCain's "ranch" is a 6.6 acre home in a "subdivision" controlled by cindy's trust and has no ranching anywhere near it.

McCain - a serial Opportunist, from marriage to policy positions

by TarHeel on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 03:28:04 PM EST

Re: Obama should hit back - he's too weak. (none / 0)

It'd be nice if the ad made a reference to McCain's long career in the Senate, during which he has done nothing to lower gas prices, or to Bush (or both).

by rfahey22 on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 03:31:39 PM EST

I'm unimpressed so far (none / 0)

every day there are several opportunities to hit back...

I understand not wanting to deviate from a narrative, but even today there's a youtube of britanny spears and mccain both unconditionally supporting Bush,,

isn't that a comeback worth using?

McCain - a serial Opportunist, from marriage to policy positions

by TarHeel on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 03:45:07 PM EST

Re: I'm unimpressed so far (none / 0)

It's being used. It's on youtube. The campaign can't cover every little thing. They've spent $4 million in florida since June 3rd. They usually respond in the same news cycle to any attacks McCain makes. On top of that, this is July. Things won't really heat up until after the conventions. The only people paying attention now are the ones like us that are politically involved.

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." Samuel Johnson

by MS01 Indie on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 03:51:36 PM EST
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Use the FREE MEDIA better (2.00 / 1)

McCain puts out some outrageous ad that plays twice at midnight in DC and Denver but gets the MSM and cable news to play it over and over.

Obama (IF anyone can convey this) needs to make some funny irreverant or youtube style ads that will never air but get free media.

unfortunately the ads obama has aired are boring, while the youtubes made by his fans are fantastic...

he needs to use free media better

McCain - a serial Opportunist, from marriage to policy positions

by TarHeel on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 03:57:08 PM EST
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Re: Obama should hit back - he's too weak. (none / 0)

I don't understand why people have said Obama does not hit back. We have seen time and time again Obama is willing to hit back and hit hard. He plays a very good offense and a very good defense. What has surprised me is the lack of response from the Obama camp regarding the latest ads from the McCain camp. There have been press releases criticizing the ads to be factually incorrect. Who knows, maybe we will see another ad blitz closer to the convention.

Restore America's Strength.

by RJEvans on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 03:50:15 PM EST

Re: Obama should hit back - he's too weak. (none / 0)

Who knows by then McCain will have defined Obama in a negative way.

by ottovbvs on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 04:38:57 PM EST
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Re: Obama should hit back - he's too weak. (none / 0)

That's what I worry about. If Obama does not respond in force, McCain could do to Obama what Bush did to Kerry. The good news for Obama is voters want change. The bad news is voters don't "know" Obama.

Restore America's Strength.

by RJEvans on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 05:19:56 PM EST
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Obama doesn't hit back? (none / 0)

Here's the latest.

by Glaurung on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 03:53:56 PM EST

U R duplicating the diary (none / 0)

that's what the diary is showing.. that same ad.. which is okay but not offense, it's defense.

McCain - a serial Opportunist, from marriage to policy positions

by TarHeel on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 03:58:29 PM EST
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Re: U R duplicating the diary (2.00 / 1)

I linked directly to Obama's ad, which the diary didn't. And if it was 'offense' it wouldn't be 'hitting back.'

by Glaurung on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 04:10:00 PM EST
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Re: Obama doesn't hit back? (none / 0)

Thanks for the link. I've updated the diary to include the link.

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." Samuel Johnson

by MS01 Indie on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 04:21:44 PM EST
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who's getting hurt by this? (2.00 / 2)

Yet McCain's former campaign manager thinks it's McCain who is getting hurt by all the negative ads:

John Weaver, for years one of John McCain's closest friends and confidants, has been in exile since his resignation from McCain's presidential campaign last year. With the exception of an occasional interview, he has, by his own account, bit his tongue as McCain's campaign has adopted a strategy that Weaver believes "diminishes John McCain."

With the release today of a McCain television ad blasting Obama for celebrity preening while gas prices rise, and a memo that accuses Obama of putting his own aggrandizement before the country, Weaver said he's had "enough."

The ad's premise, he said, is "childish."

"John's been a celebrity ever since he was shot down," Weaver said. "Whatever that means. And I recall Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush going overseas and all those waving American flags."

Weaver remains in contact with senior McCain strategists and, for a while early this year, regularly talked to McCain.

The strategy of driving up Obama's negatives "reduces McCain on the stage," Weaver said.

"For McCain to win in such troubled times, he needs to begin telling the American people how he intends to lead us. That McCain exists. He can inspire the country to greatness."

He added: "There is legitimate mockery of a political campaign now, and it isn't at Obama's. For McCain's sake, this tomfoolery needs to stop."
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/

We care about politics because we know politics matters for people's lives and opportunities.

by politicsmatters on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 04:13:51 PM EST

Talk about 'tough love.' (2.00 / 1)

by Glaurung on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 04:24:40 PM EST
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Re: Obama should hit back - he's too weak. (2.00 / 3)

And this is what Obama said (from story linked above):

Obama, speaking to reporters outside a diner in Lebanon, MO, at first did not answer a question about the ad. Then he said,.

"You know, I don't pay attention to John McCain's ads, although I do notice he doesn't seem to have anything to say very positive about himself. He seems to only be talking about me. You need to ask John McCain what he's for and not just what he's against," he said.

I like this. It's mild, but it's sharply worded. And it gets to the point that this election is a choice - and what is it that a McCain presidency would offer.

We care about politics because we know politics matters for people's lives and opportunities.

by politicsmatters on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 04:15:15 PM EST

Re: Obama should hit back - he's too weak. (2.00 / 1)

He did this another time after they had been going after him on Iraq. Turn it back on the press who kept parroting it. If he keeps it up, he might shame them enough into covering what matters. Certainly nobody can say he comes out of it looking undignified. Plenty have been saying that about Mccain, though, who looks like a petulant child right now.

"Hey, check it out. You just had yourself a glue OD. So you're learning another lesson. Don't do too much glue, or your night sucks."

by vcalzone on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 04:25:05 PM EST
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Re: Obama should hit back - he's too weak. (none / 0)

We keep up this he's too noble to fight bs while McCain keeps kicking him in the balls with bs. Somehow I don't see Clinton lying down in front of this. Whether the Obama extremists want to recognize it or not McCains bs is sticking. Check the polls.

by ottovbvs on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 04:42:03 PM EST
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Re: Obama should hit back - he's too weak. (2.00 / 1)

I'm not concerned about Obama being weak, because he's not. I'm not concerned about the people who will vote for McCain because the world is full of assholes and idiots. I'm not concerned that Obama will lose this election, but if Diebold and the RNC cagers succeed it may happen - but I'm not converned about it, because I think we have a great candidate and a lot of people (as in a whole helluva lot of people) are tired of this Republican Administration and want it to go away and stay away.

"But not me personally were those cheers for"

by QTG on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 07:36:23 PM EST

Amen (none / 0)

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." Samuel Johnson

by MS01 Indie on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 08:05:00 PM EST
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