Campaign Ads

John McCain's newest web ad is full of sleaze. "Ambition" does what John McCain did not have the balls to do at the debate last Tuesday.

I now wonder if McCain will have the testicular foritude to bring up Bill Ayers at the final debate next week. The McCain camp attempts to link Barack Obama and Bill Ayers by claiming, "when convenient he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers."

Obama states that McCain is trying to "score cheap political points"in the home stretch of this election season. The argument that Obama supports Ayers actions in the 60s is riduclous. It is shameful that they are attempting to link one man's actions in the past to another man who is running for President.  Read More »

John McCain has released his third straight negative attack ad and the first sequel ad in political campaign history. This version of the "Celeb" ad does not use any actual celebrities which one would surmise that it means that the McCain camp learned their lesson. It does not look to well when someone who is not even seeking the office, releases a response ad to your ad.

Nonetheless, once again the media has botched to report the fallacies of this new ad. It seems no matter what lies the McCain camp throw into the ad, if they hide it behind the "celebrity" attack, the media seems to only entertain that claim. The "celebrity" argument isn't even a legitimate claim. McCain has appeared on 24, WWF Smackdown, Wedding Crashers and countless other programs so who really is the Hollywood Celebrity? Instead the media would like to consider this argument and debate it while they let the lies of his ad slip through.  Read More »

Shortly after apologizing for distorting the facts in the "Troops" ad, John McCain approved a different advert that was more desperate and badly executed. The ad attempts to label Barack Obama as a celebrity and thus not qualified to be a legitimate candidate to be President of the United States of America.

Unfortunately for McCain,  he must have forgot that he supports and supported a celebrity in the 1980 General Election. When it came to voting for a military man (Jimmy Carter) or a celebrity actor turned Governor of California (Ronald Reagan), McCain and all Republicans are proud to have supported Reagan. They boast about their participation in the Reagan coalition. This makes McCain's arguments on Obama as shortsighted. How can he complain about the eloquence, charisma, and hope that Obama provides when McCain embraced it as a Reagan supporter?

Stephen Colbert makes a great point in his segment of "The Word" on The Colbert Report. How can Republicans claim that Democrats are endorsing a celebrity when it was the Republicans that supported Reagan as President and Governor of California and of course the current Governor used to be an actor? Furthermore, Colbert claims that the McCain strategy may backfire because the masses would not mind a celebrity in office since they like celebrities. The humorous and satirical approach sheds light onto the desperate measures that McCain is willing to take.

As a young Hispanic male, the "Celeb" ad was foolish and stupid in my opinion. The ad did not make any logical sense and it was a waste of money by McCain camp. They should offer an apology to its donors for mismanaging their funds. The adverts rhetorical question should have been a statement but because it was phrased as a question, "Is he ready to lead," it can be refuted. The question acknowledges that Obama is able to lead but is he "ready" is their main concern. As a swing voter, I would argue that he is since he was nominated and he is considered a legitimate candidate. The fact that they attempt to discredit his ability to lead by juxtaposing him to other celebrities is downright shameful.

I found this intresting paradoy a while back before the primaries kicked in. Although I do not condone negative ads and, I feel that they are detrimental to the democratic process. This ad was well executed was created by a pro with some good Mac video editing skills. Although he supports Obama at the end of the video he was not approached by them to create the ad.

This Presidential Election will see a surplus of unofficial ads that may have an impact on the election. The negative, clever or humurous ads will be the most influential I believe. Most voters do not concern themselves with the issues and seem like parrots only repeating the talking points by their favorite talk show hosts. This campaign season, take each ad (positive or negative) with a grain of salt.