McCain campaign leaks: Big news tomorrow! Edit: It's a 100-second Ayers ad :(

[Lunar]

1 minute = 60 seconds

1 minute 40 seconds = 100 seconds

Damn!  I wasn't paying attention and I don't watch enough Youtube videos...editing..

good call

[cannonia]

This is kind of weak.  It smacks of desperation in the McCain campaign.

[Alcon]

The big news is a middle-of-the-road YouTube documentary?  Bah.  They didn't even do the attack from the proper angle.

(Why does it have the "approve this message" bit if it's a web video?)

Edit: Oh, it's an ad?

[Person Man]

Anyway, that new Ayers ad is NASTY. Hopefully the American public won't buy into that nonsense.

It's nasty, but so is attacking Nixon on Watergate - both issues are "nasty" to the American people, but like Watergate, the stuff about Ayers actually happened.

Anyway, that new Ayers ad is NASTY. Hopefully the American public won't buy into that nonsense.

It's nasty, but so is attacking Nixon on Watergate - both issues are "nasty" to the American people, but like Watergate, the stuff about Ayers actually happened.

But the thing is Obama didn't do anything, unlike Nixon. I mean if one of my co-workers rapped someone 40 years ago and I work with that co-worker to get a big job done or that co-work has a party for me does that make me pro-rap? Its stupid and not going to work, Americans I hope are smarter then that.

Please enlighten us; What was it that Nixon did exactly?

You mean, besides ordering his opponents to be "screwed"?

[TheresNoMoney]

Anyone who really cares about William Ayers is already voting for McCain.

[Democratic Hawk]

McCain has just given me licence to wipe the bloody floor with him. Smear-peddling personification of reptilian self-servitude that he is

Dave

[Lunar]

Anyone who really cares about William Ayers is already voting for McCain.

Wrong.

Indeed, you're ight.  Look at Beef's recent swing voter post, he's completely undecided, partly because he doesn't know what to think about Wright/Ayers.

I think the McCain campaign should blitz Wright "God Damn America" ads in the waning days.  They could be forbidding any of the surrogates from mentioning it, just so it appears more fresh and exciting when they do it.

[Democratic Hawk]

Anyone who really cares about William Ayers is already voting for McCain.

Wrong.

Indeed, you're ight.  Look at Beef's recent swing voter post, he's completely undecided, partly because he doesn't know what to think about Wright/Ayers.

I think the McCain campaign should blitz Wright "God Damn America" ads in the waning days.  They could be forbidding any of the surrogates from mentioning it, just so it appears more fresh and exciting when they do it.

Well race-baiting is about the level I've come to expect from the personification of reptilian self-servitude that is John McCain

Dave

[SPQR]

Pathetic.Simply,utterly pathetic.

[The Man From G.O.P.]

Anyone who really cares about William Ayers is already voting for McCain.

Wrong.

Indeed, you're ight.  Look at Beef's recent swing voter post, he's completely undecided, partly because he doesn't know what to think about Wright/Ayers.

I think the McCain campaign should blitz Wright "God Damn America" ads in the waning days.  They could be forbidding any of the surrogates from mentioning it, just so it appears more fresh and exciting when they do it.

Well race-baiting is about the level I've come to expect from the personification of reptilian self-servitude that is John McCain

Dave

You're whining way too much for one thread, Obama has tons of vulnerable little sidenotes like this, McCain is losing, so he breaks them out, it's no surprise, and believe you me your candidate would have done it too if he were in the same position with less than a month to go.

[Keystone Phil]

Anyway?  Obama's 13 minute video,  > 140 seconds.  Obama's aleady has 1.3 million views.

We'll see.

You're really going to claim victory when it comes to who gets more activity/viewers on the Internets? Really?

[SPQR]

Anyway?  Obama's 13 minute video,  > 140 seconds.  Obama's aleady has 1.3 million views.

We'll see.

You're really going to claim victory when it comes to who gets more activity/viewers on the Internets? Really?

Isn't the Ayers ad an internet-only ad as well?Not that it will change much,given its insignificance.

[Keystone Phil]

Anyway?  Obama's 13 minute video,  > 140 seconds.  Obama's aleady has 1.3 million views.

We'll see.

You're really going to claim victory when it comes to who gets more activity/viewers on the Internets? Really?

Isn't the Ayers ad an internet-only ad as well?Not that it will change much,given its insignificance.

Yeah but there's still no reason to act like its some huge victory.

[Democratic Hawk]

Anyone who really cares about William Ayers is already voting for McCain.

Wrong.

Indeed, you're ight.  Look at Beef's recent swing voter post, he's completely undecided, partly because he doesn't know what to think about Wright/Ayers.

I think the McCain campaign should blitz Wright "God Damn America" ads in the waning days.  They could be forbidding any of the surrogates from mentioning it, just so it appears more fresh and exciting when they do it.

Well race-baiting is about the level I've come to expect from the personification of reptilian self-servitude that is John McCain

Dave

You're whining way too much for one thread, Obama has tons of vulnerable little sidenotes like this, McCain is losing, so he breaks them out, it's no surprise, and believe you me your candidate would have done it too if he were in the same position with less than a month to go.

I don't whine, I kick ass

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Anyway, that new Ayers ad is NASTY. Hopefully the American public won't buy into that nonsense.

It's nasty, but so is attacking Nixon on Watergate - both issues are "nasty" to the American people, but like Watergate, the stuff about Ayers actually happened.

But the thing is Obama didn't do anything, unlike Nixon. I mean if one of my co-workers rapped someone 40 years ago and I work with that co-worker to get a big job done or that co-work has a party for me does that make me pro-rap? Its stupid and not going to work, Americans I hope are smarter then that.

I'm not saying that Obama is pro-terrorism.  But I would say that if you had a fundraiser at a rapists house who said that he didn't rape enough women and wished he'd raped more, I'd seriously question your qualifications of being a leader.

[Democratic Hawk]

Anyway, that new Ayers ad is NASTY. Hopefully the American public won't buy into that nonsense.

It's nasty, but so is attacking Nixon on Watergate - both issues are "nasty" to the American people, but like Watergate, the stuff about Ayers actually happened.

But the thing is Obama didn't do anything, unlike Nixon. I mean if one of my co-workers rapped someone 40 years ago and I work with that co-worker to get a big job done or that co-work has a party for me does that make me pro-rap? Its stupid and not going to work, Americans I hope are smarter then that.

I'm not saying that Obama is pro-terrorism.  But I would say that if you had a fundraiser at a rapists house who said that he didn't rape enough women and wished he'd raped more, I'd seriously question your qualifications of being a leader.

I seriously question whether McCain has either the testicular fortitude (he capitulated to the reactionary base of his party like a spineless wuss by passing over running mates like Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman for Saintly Sarah) or the temperament to be a leader. George F. Will, a conservative syndicated columnist, hit the nail on the head:

"Under the pressures of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama"

That little stunt in "suspending" his campaign wasn't an act of leadership either. It was typical McCain, he saw something in it for him, the vain hope that voters would come flooding the way of a great man who put "country first" perhaps?

McCain says America needs a steady hand at the tiller; I'd say it needs a cool head at the ready

The most brilliant display of "leadership" I've seen from McCain was flipping on offshore drilling - the very same day, and within hours, of a Rasmussen poll (June 18) suggesting a majority were in favor. Where's the conviction in flipping by poll without so much as moment's thought? Granted Obama seems open to the idea, but after much thought, and as part of a wider energy strategy

I'm watching McCain like a hawk - and I'll call the dog out with relish when he warrants it

Dave

[The Man From G.O.P.]

Anyway, that new Ayers ad is NASTY. Hopefully the American public won't buy into that nonsense.

It's nasty, but so is attacking Nixon on Watergate - both issues are "nasty" to the American people, but like Watergate, the stuff about Ayers actually happened.

But the thing is Obama didn't do anything, unlike Nixon. I mean if one of my co-workers rapped someone 40 years ago and I work with that co-worker to get a big job done or that co-work has a party for me does that make me pro-rap? Its stupid and not going to work, Americans I hope are smarter then that.

I'm not saying that Obama is pro-terrorism.  But I would say that if you had a fundraiser at a rapists house who said that he didn't rape enough women and wished he'd raped more, I'd seriously question your qualifications of being a leader.

I seriously question whether McCain has either the testicular fortitude (he capitulated to the reactionary base of his party like a spineless wuss by passing over running mates like Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman for Saintly Sarah) or the temperament to be a leader. George F. Will, a conservative syndicated columnist, hit the nail on the head:

"Under the pressures of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama"

That little stunt in "suspending" his campaign wasn't an act of leadership either. It was typical McCain, he saw something in it for him, the vain hope that voters would come flooding the way of a great man who put "country first" perhaps?

McCain says America needs a steady hand at the tiller; I'd say it needs a cool head at the ready

The most brilliant display of "leadership" I've seen from McCain was flipping on offshore drilling - the very same day, and within hours, of a Rasmussen poll (June 18) suggesting a majority were in favor. Where's the conviction in flipping by poll without so much as moment's thought? Granted Obama seems open to the idea, but after much thought, and as part of a wider energy strategy

I'm watching McCain like a hawk - and I'll call the dog out with relish when he warrants it

Dave

KARRYING OWT HIS WAR FROM TEH FABULUS INTARWEBS!

[Democratic Hawk]

Anyway, that new Ayers ad is NASTY. Hopefully the American public won't buy into that nonsense.

It's nasty, but so is attacking Nixon on Watergate - both issues are "nasty" to the American people, but like Watergate, the stuff about Ayers actually happened.

But the thing is Obama didn't do anything, unlike Nixon. I mean if one of my co-workers rapped someone 40 years ago and I work with that co-worker to get a big job done or that co-work has a party for me does that make me pro-rap? Its stupid and not going to work, Americans I hope are smarter then that.

I'm not saying that Obama is pro-terrorism.  But I would say that if you had a fundraiser at a rapists house who said that he didn't rape enough women and wished he'd raped more, I'd seriously question your qualifications of being a leader.

I seriously question whether McCain has either the testicular fortitude (he capitulated to the reactionary base of his party like a spineless wuss by passing over running mates like Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman for Saintly Sarah) or the temperament to be a leader. George F. Will, a conservative syndicated columnist, hit the nail on the head:

"Under the pressures of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama"

That little stunt in "suspending" his campaign wasn't an act of leadership either. It was typical McCain, he saw something in it for him, the vain hope that voters would come flooding the way of a great man who put "country first" perhaps?

McCain says America needs a steady hand at the tiller; I'd say it needs a cool head at the ready

The most brilliant display of "leadership" I've seen from McCain was flipping on offshore drilling - the very same day, and within hours, of a Rasmussen poll (June 18) suggesting a majority were in favor. Where's the conviction in flipping by poll without so much as moment's thought? Granted Obama seems open to the idea, but after much thought, and as part of a wider energy strategy

I'm watching McCain like a hawk - and I'll call the dog out with relish when he warrants it

Dave

KARRYING OWT HIS WAR FROM TEH FABULUS INTARWEBS!

It's war all right . Back in January 2008, when I bestowed Favored Republican status on McCain, I never for one minute envisaged my becoming one of his most vehement Forum critics

I don't enoy taking the cane to McCain any more than I've enjoyed beating about the Bush; far from it. In fact, I was just lamenting to my mother the other night that I was feeling guilty about it (in a rare moment of soft-headedness) thinking back to the days when he was tortured by his Viet Minh captors

But McCain has earned himself my animosity as a consequence of his very own actions, and, at times, most uncivil and undignifed conduct

Dave

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

These "big news" announcements are never big, simply because if they are they'll get leaked earlier. The purpose of saying there's "big news" coming up is to attract more attention to the non-story. If McCain released this ad without that "big news coming" bit, no one would pay attention.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

You know for all the talk that the election should "be about serious issues" this thread has 9 pages and the one on whether some woman of average intellectence and no importance beliefs (important word that) that Dinosaurs and Humans co-existed has 5 pages.

Oh, the Trivality.

[cinyc]

It's a 140 second ad, I lied.

http://www.youtube.com/user/johnmccaindotcom?ob=4

It's actually only 90 seconds now, which means it could theoretically be run on TV.  But I think you already know what I think of long ads - this one is 60 seconds too long.  It works, but would be far more damning if shorter.

And as I said before, this isn't really about Bill Ayres.  It's about Barack Obama.  And Bill Ayres is just one of many of Barack Obama's questionable friends.  Expect more to come.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It's a 140 second ad, I lied.

http://www.youtube.com/user/johnmccaindotcom?ob=4

It's actually only 90 seconds now, which means it could theoretically be run on TV.  But I think you already know what I think of long ads - this one is 60 seconds too long.  It works, but would be far more damning if shorter.

And as I said before, this isn't really about Bill Ayres.  It's about Barack Obama.  And Bill Ayres is just one of many of Barack Obama's questionable friends.  Expect more to come.

Good thing then that McCain only associates with people of such fantastic character as Charles Keating, Rick Renzi, John Hagee and George W. Bush.

[cinyc]

It's a 140 second ad, I lied.

http://www.youtube.com/user/johnmccaindotcom?ob=4

It's actually only 90 seconds now, which means it could theoretically be run on TV.  But I think you already know what I think of long ads - this one is 60 seconds too long.  It works, but would be far more damning if shorter.

And as I said before, this isn't really about Bill Ayres.  It's about Barack Obama.  And Bill Ayres is just one of many of Barack Obama's questionable friends.  Expect more to come.

Good thing then that McCain only associates with people of such fantastic character as Charles Keating, Rick Renzi, John Hagee and George W. Bush.

Well if McCain's association with George Bush is fair game, why isn't Obama's association with Bill Ayres?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Your side is the one saying Ayers is fair game but McCain isn't a Bush clone.

Oh yeah:

[exopolitician]

It's a 140 second ad, I lied.

http://www.youtube.com/user/johnmccaindotcom?ob=4

It's actually only 90 seconds now, which means it could theoretically be run on TV.  But I think you already know what I think of long ads - this one is 60 seconds too long.  It works, but would be far more damning if shorter.

And as I said before, this isn't really about Bill Ayres.  It's about Barack Obama.  And Bill Ayres is just one of many of Barack Obama's questionable friends.  Expect more to come.

Good thing then that McCain only associates with people of such fantastic character as Charles Keating, Rick Renzi, John Hagee and George W. Bush.

Well if McCain's association with George Bush is fair game, why isn't Obama's association with Bill Ayres?

Beating it to a pulp isn't going to help McCain any. The issue was brought up during the primaries and everyone moved on. Everyday the McCain campaign doesnt focus entirely on the economy and whats at stake, and continues to make a fool of themselves. They lose.

It's sad seeing the Republicans resort to desperation at a time like this. Pretty selfish id say.