Obama and McCain ads - a comparison

Today's local paper compared three of the most frequently-aired ads for the week ending October 12 by the Obama and McCain campaigns.

The comparison may give a clue as to why McCain is losing.

Ad I -

Obama's ad talks about Obama's health care plan and warns that McCain's plan will tax health care benefits "for the first time ever."

The ad is truthful and does not deal with McCain's character or lack thereof.

McCain's ad labels Obama as "Dangerous," and claims that Obama is "dishonorable." It attacks Obama's voting record on Iraq. It falsifies a comment Obama made about Afghanistan.

The ad is untruthful and attacks Obama's character.


Ad 2 -

Obama's ad has to do with Health Care Reform. It contrasts Obama's health care plan with "two extremes," or alternative health care plans.

The ad is truthful and does not deal with McCain's character of lack thereof.

McCain's ad is titled "Ambition," and attacks Obama personally for "bad judgment," and references Obama's non-relationship to William Ayers.

The ad is untruthful and attacks Obama's character.


Ad 3 -

Obama's ad is titled "Unravel." It claims that McCain's health care plan will "raise costs of employers," which might result in someone's health being either reduced or dropped entirely."

The ad is truthful and does not attack McCain's character or lack thereof.

McCain's ad is called "Tax Cutter." It asks the question, "Who is Barack Obama," and claims Obama "voted 94 times for higher taxes."

The ad is untruthful and attacks Obama's character.


And all of this should provide a bit of insight into how these two candidates think and how they approach differences between people. It also clarifies which candidate is more honest.

These comparisons also show rather clearly that McCain cannot run on his record nor his plans for the future and thus descends into the gutter by attacking Obama's character, and by lying about Obama's proposals.

Value-less Republicans

Ed O'Keefe of the WaPo writes of a conservative (Republican) political action committee known as "Our Country Deserves Better."

This value-less group of Repugnicans has begun running an ad in several states, including Colorado, Nevada and Michigan, "that, among other things, seeks to associate Barack Obama with terrorist leaders and groups. The ad is one of at least eight by the group that use a series of already-debunked claims ... and also broadcasts remarks by Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whom the McCain campaign has ruled off limits."

Here's what one ad says: "Barack Obama seems to have different values from most Americans. His supporters put up Cuban flags with the murderer leftist Che Guevarra in Obama's campaign offices." They call this the "Wrong Values" ad, which also claims that "Obama's campaign received $33,000 in illegal donations from Palestinians living in the Middle East. A top official of the terrorist group Hamas endorsed Obama's campaign." Then there's a clip of Wright saying "God damn America."

There's much more of this same crap.

The implication in all of them is that "they" have the right "values," and Obama's has the wrong "values."

Actually, the only thing "right" about any of this is that these creeps have no values at all. They can go to hell with all the rest of the racist, bigots out there supporting John McSame and Sarah "Pit Bull" Palin.

Our country surely deserves better than the likes of any of these morally-impaired guttersnipes!