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Eye on Ohio: “90 Percent” ad for Obama
By Scott Elliott | Dayton Daily News
THE AD: “90 Percent”
SCRIPT: John McCain speaking: “Senator Obama, I am not President Bush.” Narrator: True, but he did vote with Bush 90 percent of the time. Tax breaks for big corporations and the wealthy, but almost nothing for the middle class? Same as Bush. Keep spending $10 billion a month in Iraq while our economy struggles? Same as Bush. You may not be George Bush, but …” McCain speaking: “I voted with the president over 90 percent of the time, higher than a lot of my even Republican colleagues.”
VIDEO: The video intersperse video of McCain speaking and looking on during the last presidential debate as words appear next to his head, such as “Tax breaks for big corporations and the wealth” and “Nothing for the middle class.” Three images of McCain together with George Bush are interspersed with other images in the ad. The ad also uses debate video of McCain in which he makes awkward facial expressions and blinks heavily. It ends with archive video of McCain talking about his voting record of supporting President Bush.
ANALYSIS: According to CNN.com, an analysis of McCain’s voting record by the nonpartisan Congressional Quarterly magazine showed McCain did, indeed, vote in favor of bills that Bush had taken a clear position on 90 percent of the time over Bush’s first seven years in office. Only 14 other Republicans voted with the president more often than McCain. By comparison, Joe Biden voted with Bush 52 percent of the time and Barack Obama 40 percent of the time.
However, the year-by-year analysis showed wide variability. In 2007 McCain voted with Bush 95 percent of the time but in 2005 he voted with Bush only 77 percent of the time. The video of McCain talking about his voting record of supporting Bush is from a 2003 interview on Fox News, so it is pretty out of date. While the core charge by Obama is true that McCain voted very often to support President Bush’s agenda, the impression given that McCain is bragging about that today is misleading.
The ad also works hard to link McCain and Bush through its rhetoric and images of the two together and it portrays McCain looking, for lack of a better word, “weird” by picking short clips of debate video in which he made expressions in reaction to Obama’s comments.
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By runmccainrun
October 19, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
Look in lainmcclain eyes and you will see the eyes of a devil—anyone that do not see it (must be part of the same klan)..He is already reaping for all the demon seeds he has sowed…..By adcap
October 19, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
General Colin Powell now has endorsed Barack Obama. And, I hope that the good general will be part of the Obama administration.By Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann
October 18, 2008 8:53 PM | Link to this
Ha! Obama is such a fool! This advertisement unwittingly proves that McCain is the most pro-American candidate the great Christian USofA has ever had to offer! If you’re in Congress and you’re not voting with the infallible great one in the White House, you are a treasonous, satanic, anti-Christ whore! Glory be to God when we persecute all of those weak, sinning mortals who dare speak against the Christian Lord chosen by God to lead the faithful against the hedonistic dogs of every religion but our own. For all of those voting for Obama, I pray for your souls which I know without doubt will burn in hell for all eternity. Oh great one McCain, I want your baby!By The Media Ranger
October 18, 2008 7:28 PM | Link to this
Back in the days the John Kerry ran and the Bush/Rove smear machine dug up the Swift Boat veterans who questioned Kerry’s valor, Democrats got on Kerry’s butt for not responding more forcefully. I feel that Obama, for the most part, has taken the high road in this campaign, and has certainly been much more focused on the issues than on the negative things he could say about McCain. It makes sense to me. Who would want to hear weeks and weeks of Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers and McCain’s relationship with Charles Keating? But I’m kind of glad to see an Obama ad like this. It’s just the kind of thing that will make smoke come out of McCain’s ears, and he doesn’t think well before he acts in that state. He’s a Class A screw-up that I wouldn’t let anywhere near a trigger.By Joanie
October 18, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this
I have also seen a McCain ad that says Obama has “No executive experience.” So if being a Senator doesn’t count as executive experience, neither does McCain.By adcap
October 18, 2008 7:50 AM | Link to this
McCain is not a “maverick”. With enough money and publicity, one could make Boehner or any of the republican minion look like a “maverick”. Reminder: McCain was against a new and expanded GI Bill as proposed by Sen. Jim Webb. McCain has a problem supporting our veterans.By matt okeefe
October 18, 2008 2:01 AM | Link to this
McCain the outsider “Maverick” indeed! On McCain’s team, I see William Timmons, who in 1992 was trying to do a backroom deal with Saddam Hussein for oil. Remember Saddam, our “enemy”, who the President in 1992 swore had WMD, insisted we had to wage war against. McCain’s head of his presidential transition team was trying to do business with Saddam at this very time! On McCain’s team I see Texas ex-Senator Phil Gramm, who sponsored the legislation that led to the downfall and $124 Billion bailout of our Savings & Loans industry, and sponsored the 2000 legislation that allowed banks, financial institutions to trade our mortgages and debt like baseball cards, which we are now bailing out to the tune of $700 Billion, for starters. Big Oil companies, who receive government subsidies, (our tax money), have made record vast profits for the last 8 years, and have given McCain almost $2 million dollars for his campaigns. For 8 years the Republicans have been yelling, constantly, “Beware, Terrorist”, while they spend our tax money on their corporate friends, and the average American gets deeper and deeper in debt. Haven’t we had enough of this old Republican trick McCain is pulling now? We had better educate ourselves to the truth, people, instead of believing sound bite labels, like Terrorist, National Security, words that should have meaning, but have been turned into distractions Republicans use every time, to keep us from thinking for ourselves about what the real issues are.