The ad below attacks McCain for owning three foreign-made cars. This is just ridiculous.
More Obama Silly Stuff
Posted by Joel at 9/23/2008 04:18:00 PM
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
A place, besides your inbox, to share and comment on the latest political rumblings.
Archive
-
▼
2008
(1355)
- ► 10/26 - 11/02 (2)
- ► 10/19 - 10/26 (9)
- ► 10/12 - 10/19 (276)
- ► 10/05 - 10/12 (277)
- ► 09/28 - 10/05 (209)
-
▼
09/21 - 09/28
(189)
- Good Thing He Suspended His Campaign
- Debates Useless
- Calling for Palin to Step Aside
- DFW on McCain—8 Years Later
- Zakaria on Palin
- Palin Backs An Obama Strategy?
- Here Comes the Bride
- Why AIG Failed
- McCain Rolls the Dice—Literally
- "That was one of the most pathetic pieces of tape ...
- Quote of the Day
- About Those Trade Missions...
- The Kissinger Debacle Part 2
- Channeling Tim Russert
- Maddow on War Crimes
- Grandmother Has a Bailout Lesson for Wall Street
- Veterans for Obama—A New Series of Ads
- Smart Women
- Senate Lifts Ban on Offshore Drilling
- McCain, Racism, Obama
- Obama Doesn't Understand
- Clueless
- Good Work, Rene
- Bush is Still Bush
- The Muddle in Mississippi
- CBS/Knowledge Networks Poll
- The McCain "Kennedy" Comment
- McCain Camp Muzzles Palin
- A Huge Jump
- Doesn't Obama Want to Win?
- The Agreement Ad
- The Zero Ad
- Good Summary
- Fallows on the Debate
- RIP Paul Newman
- Horse shit
- Funny
- Palin in Miss Alaska Contest
- McCain in Trouble
- Free Market Economists on Bailout
- Baseball break
- An Erica Hill Moment
- Twist the Knife
- McCain Sees Future
- She Meets Kissinger....
- Bernstein Hits McCain, Pulls Back Before Death Blow
- Worth Repeating
- Toobin: Straight Shooter
- The Sarah Palin Dilemma
- Food For Thought
- Contrarian View on McCain's Actions
- Should Barr Debate?
- Advice For Palin
- Palin Accepted $25k in Gifts
- McCain's Suspension: NYT A1
- Palin Pastor Anti semitic?
- The Palin Pick—The Devolution of McCain
- Good vs. Evil Part 2
- McCain Shows Up, Everything Goes to Shit
- But She's a Reformer Who Fights Corruption?
- And Someone Better Call Him on This, too
- Someone Better Call Him on This
- Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
- Follow Up on Below Palin Clip
- Holy Fucking Shit
- A Stronger Economy
- Funny Jewish Humor
- Jews Waking Up
- Crafty!
- Yikes
- Take That 80% Approval Rating and Shove It!
- Ha!
- Debate On
- Why $700 billion?
- What Was Cut
- I'm Not Surprised
- Bunch of crap
- Yup
- Punched in the Face @ 1000 fps
- The Rachel Maddow Profile
- Luke Russert Apology
- RFK Jr. on Palin's Big Oil Infatuataion
- Canceling the Debate: Financially Devastating
- Straight Talk from the First Lady
- David Letterman: It's Really Starting to Smell
- Showing Signs of an Electoral Lead
- Rick Davis: Part 2
- "He's also known as the maverick though"
- Ouch
- Multi-task, Adapt
- More Couric/Palin
- Country First?
- It's true: Presidents have to Multitask
- Agree or Disagree?
- McCain Calling for a Time-Out
- Obama Hanged in Effigy
- Wonder What Her Question Was...
- Facts on the Government Bailout
- The Tax Breakdown
- Finally!
- ► 09/14 - 09/21 (112)
- ► 09/07 - 09/14 (44)
- ► 08/31 - 09/07 (18)
- ► 08/24 - 08/31 (45)
- ► 08/17 - 08/24 (37)
- ► 08/10 - 08/17 (29)
- ► 08/03 - 08/10 (37)
- ► 07/27 - 08/03 (20)
- ► 07/20 - 07/27 (51)
Foreign Visitors
Reykjavík, Iceland
London, England (BBC!)
Alberta, Canada
Bologna, Italy
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vancouver, Canada
San Jose, Costa Rica
Jayuya, Puerto Rico
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Berwick, Nova Scotia, Canada
Mundubbera, Queensland, Australia
Bonn, Nordrhein-westfalen, Germany
Breitenfurt, Niederosterreich, Austria
Oslo, Norway
Berlin, Germany
London, United Kingdom
Paris, Ile-de-france, France
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Oaxaca, Mexico
Raahe, Oulu, Finland
Brasov, Romania
Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Luzern, Switzerland
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Kildare, Ireland
Münster, Nordrhein-westfalen, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Celle, Niedersachsen, Germany
Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany
Doha, Ad Dawhah, Qatar
Leuven, Vlaams-brabant, Belgium
Madrid, Spain
Warsaw, Poland
Sandnes, Norway
Caracas, Venezuela
Istanbul, Turkey
Cape Town, South Africa
London, England (BBC!)
Alberta, Canada
Bologna, Italy
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vancouver, Canada
San Jose, Costa Rica
Jayuya, Puerto Rico
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Berwick, Nova Scotia, Canada
Mundubbera, Queensland, Australia
Bonn, Nordrhein-westfalen, Germany
Breitenfurt, Niederosterreich, Austria
Oslo, Norway
Berlin, Germany
London, United Kingdom
Paris, Ile-de-france, France
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Oaxaca, Mexico
Raahe, Oulu, Finland
Brasov, Romania
Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Luzern, Switzerland
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Kildare, Ireland
Münster, Nordrhein-westfalen, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Celle, Niedersachsen, Germany
Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany
Doha, Ad Dawhah, Qatar
Leuven, Vlaams-brabant, Belgium
Madrid, Spain
Warsaw, Poland
Sandnes, Norway
Caracas, Venezuela
Istanbul, Turkey
Cape Town, South Africa
The Underground Imagination - Wordpress Themes is proudly powered by WordPress and themed by Mukkamu
Templates Novo Blogger
8 Comments:
It's ridiculous to point out that someone is lying? I think it's totally fair game.
It's petty. It's populist bullshit. This is a gotcha! moment on something that's largely trivial. The ad is as much about him owning 13 cars as it is about him mistakenly claiming to only buy American. There is no substance here.
We can agree to disagree, Joel.
I think this is totally applicable.
PS: I don't think it's trivial to the people of Michigan and I personally find it offensive when McCain tries to represent himself as the "more patriotic" candidate and the "All-American hero" and then he lies about how he spend his money.
"But the real impact of the ad is to hit McCain as a foreign car-buyer, which means somebody who doesn't believe in Detroit and is willing to let the auto industry drown, along with and all the industries that rely on it. There's an emotional resonance to this that most people in other parts of the country don't relate to."
Jonathan Chait, TNR
If Jonathan Chait doesn't think people in other parts of the country emotionally relate to this, he's crazy. McCain projects a certain persona--and lies to perpetuate that persona--and then he gets busted. And that resonates with me and a lot of people. Just like I don't like it when Obama gets busted lying. But a spade is a spade.
And I agree with Sam Stein from Politico:
"But with the state polls looking tighter than ever, leverage in the car wars may mean the difference in the Electoral College count."
From a comment posted on CNN:
the number of cars he owns isn't a issue. Its the LIES. I only buy American cars, oops guess not. I bought my daughter a pirus, uhh actually she bought it herself. Its not the number of cars or the type of cars, its just how easy it is for him to look into the camera and tell a obvious lie to the american public that is frightening.
Chait was on your side with that comment. Maybe that was lost without the full context of his article.
I get that it's not cool for politicians to be lying, but I think this is an awfully weak instance of lying on the part of the McCain-Palin campaign. Which is why I don't see the ad as an ad targeting McCain's honesty. I see it as targeting his penchant for buying foreign cars, which I don't think is much of an issue. But as you and Chait point out, maybe it's all lost on me.
Post a Comment