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McCain Ad Rips Obama on Rezko
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ABC News' Teddy Davis and Arnab Datta Report: The McCain campaign is responding to Sen. Barack Obama's, D-Ill., "housing" attack with an ad that goes after the Illinois Democrat for his ties to convicted land developer Tony Rezko.
"If you want to talk about a housing problem," McCain spokesman Brian Rogers tells ABC News, "Sen. Obama certainly has one when he bought his million dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon."
"That's a house that he could not have bought without Mr. Rezko's actions," said Rogers. "It raises questions about his judgment. And you know it is an issue that we think the American people care far more about than how many houses or properties or dog houses that John and Cindy McCain have."
The McCain campaign is not disclosing how much money it is planning to put behind its Rezko ad but vows that it will air on broadcast television in "key states."
The ad from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., follows an Obama ad attacking the presumptive GOP nominee for directing a question about how many homes he owns to his staff.
"I think -- I'll have my staff get to you," McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. "It's condominiums where -- I'll have them get to you."
The Obama campaign responded to McCain's ad by pointing to a report by the Annenberg Public Policy Center's Fact Check, stating "as the McCain campaign desperately tries to find out how many houses John McCain owns, they are launching thoroughly debunked attacks. Barack Obama offered the best price of any bidder in the market for his home - the only home he owns."
The full McCain ad attacking Obama on Rezko can be seen here. The script is below.
Script For "Housing Problem" (TV :30)
ANNCR: Barack Obama knows a lot about housing problems.
One of his "biggest fundraisers" helped him buy his million-dollar mansion.
Purchasing part of the property he couldn't afford.
From Obama, Rezko got "political favors" including "14 million from taxpayers."
Now, he's a convicted felon, facing jail.
That's a housing problem.
JOHN MCCAIN: I'm John McCain and I approved this message.
August 21, 2008 in Hunter, Duncan, Kucinich, Dennis, Tancredo, Tom, Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (172)
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Rezko is a dead issue. That's like talking about the Keating 5. Voters don't care.
Magoo is a gaffe machine.
Posted by: Right on Day1 | Aug 21, 2008 5:33:42 PM
Old news been hearing about it over, and, over and, over again.
Posted by: Thinking | Aug 21, 2008 5:42:53 PM
McSame. McSame. Panama John. McSame. Polly Wants a Cracker! McSame. Senile, senile, senile, senile. McSame. McSame. Polly Wants a Cracker! Polly Wants a Cracker! McSame. McSame. McSame. McSame. McSame. Bottom of his class! Bottom of his class! Keating, Keating. McSame. Senile, senile, senile. Old man. Confused. Old man. Confused. McSame. McSame. McSame. Polly Wants a Cracker. Senile old man. McSame. Really shows his age! Really shows his age. Old. Old. Senile. Senile. Polly Wants a Cracker! SQUAWK! Old. McSame. Senile.
Posted by: TypicalRetardedLefty | Aug 21, 2008 5:43:58 PM
Obama soooooo shouldn't have gone there. Cindy owns these properties and if I were McCain I wouldn't be counting them either.....but a criminally complicated purchase of a mansion and empty lot....when Rezko is going to be sentenced on Sept 2....now that's more newsworthy!
Posted by: Debra | Aug 21, 2008 5:44:32 PM
About time.
Posted by: Olbermn3 | Aug 21, 2008 5:46:52 PM
Rezko is a dead issue.
Posted by: Right on Day1 | Aug 21, 2008
----
You so desperately hope, wish and want!
Unfortunately, for your inconvenience, you should hold your seat tight and wait for the resonance.
Posted by: Olbermn3 | Aug 21, 2008 5:48:42 PM
The Rezko story will haunt Obama now that he opened the door for McCain to attack him using this. Remember Rezko is to be sentenced early September. McCain can also add in Rezko's defunct public housing projects (with public tax money that Obama gave him) -- 11 of them are in Obama's district. Obama has a much bigger housing problem than McCain.
Posted by: amy | Aug 21, 2008 5:48:48 PM
Right on Day1,
It's been seven days since your Political Jesus claimed he had made his wRight decision, on his vp. Which day do you start counting, again?
Posted by: Boneheaded, from Chicago | Aug 21, 2008 5:51:32 PM
Of course Rezco is a "dead issue" for the left. There more interested in how many houses McCain & wife own rather than million dollar deals made through convicted felons.
Posted by: Don | Aug 21, 2008 5:52:19 PM
Obama really stepped in it today. The fact that McCain waited to unleash this until provoked by the Lamb shows exactly how restrained his "negative" ads have been.
Posted by: DaveS | Aug 21, 2008 5:52:28 PM
we do care. just like you guys care about mccains age, his wife, his military service etc...obama started this with his questionable associations recent ad connecting mccain with abrams. and we want to know more about ayers as well.
yes we do want to know.
Posted by: sonia trevino | Aug 21, 2008 5:52:53 PM
Debra wrote:
.....but a criminally complicated purchase of a mansion and empty lot
*********
Obama DID NOT purchase the home from Rezko. Rezko NEVER owned the home that Obama purchased.
I know you use fact repellant, but your lies are getting silly and old.
Posted by: Llama in Pajama's | Aug 21, 2008 5:53:12 PM
If John McCain hadn't cheated on his first wife Carol with the rich princess/heiress Cindy, he wouldn't have any of those seven homes!
Guess it pays to commit adultery with the daughter of a rich businessman. Way to go, John. You made your father proud.
Posted by: Akinyele | Aug 21, 2008 5:53:21 PM
CNN covering today the Ayers story too...wow not a good day for Obama's "judgement" with criminal friends.
McCAIN '08/HILLARY '12
Posted by: Debra | Aug 21, 2008 5:56:42 PM
LOL! Barry "above my paygrade" Soetoro/Oblhama really put his foot in his mouth this time!
Can't wait to see the McCain ad!
We don't care *how many houses* the McCains have....we want *straight answers* Barry! Like the ones that are "above your pay grade" answers.
Is it *silly season* Barry?????
PUMA!
Posted by: JustWords | Aug 21, 2008 5:57:13 PM
Wasn't it Renko who cause the collapse of the U.S. Savings and Loan Industry. Oh wait, no, that was John McCain's best friend Charles H. Keating, Jr. I wonder how many innocent American's lost their entire lives savings with the help of John McCain? And then there is DHL and Boeing Air Tanker. Now I wonder how many Americans lost their jobs because of John McCain? But Johnny can't remember how many houses he owns.
Posted by: James | Aug 21, 2008 5:57:16 PM
"Criminal friends"...I guess we need to re-open the investigation of Cindy McCain stealing medicinal drugs from her charity foundation to feed her drug addiction. Now that is a conviction waiting to happen!
Posted by: Akinyele | Aug 21, 2008 6:00:58 PM
John McCain is a punk. Always has been. The (insert C-word)'s money has been able to buy him a life, but truth be known, he really is just a punk. He doesn't have balls enough to campaign on real issues because he can't garner enough support to win on the real issues. He's a $1500 suit walking around in $500 shoes and he's going to punk this country given the opportunity.
Posted by: hang | Aug 21, 2008 6:01:06 PM
If John McCain hadn't cheated on his first wife Carol with the rich princess/heiress Cindy, he wouldn't have any of those seven homes!
Guess it pays to commit adultery with the daughter of a rich businessman. Way to go, John. You made your father proud.
Posted by: Akinyele | Aug 21, 2008 6:04:05 PM
Rezko? Isn't that the name of a pharmacy from way back? Like....boring. Moving on! This would be news if Rezko was having an affair with a young staff member before he got tried. But no...this is a stupid waste of T.V. Ad space. I'm going to that shoe sale at Macy's. And Roger, get a new tie please.
Posted by: Tiff | Aug 21, 2008 6:04:36 PM
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