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Who's that Praising McCain?
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ABC News’ Bret Hovell Reports: Who said it?
"I admire Senator McCain greatly."
"I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience he will bring to the White House."
"I believe the right approach begins with the proposal put forward by…Senator McCain."
Do names of Republicans pop to mind?
Would you believe Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, respectively?
A new web-only ad from the McCain campaign compiles seven quotes from seven prominent Democrats, each one offering compliments for the presumptive Republican nominee.
You can watch the ad HERE
Of course the ad, "Praising McCain," doesn’t utilize any recent sounds from those democrats – except for the quote from Clinton, who spoke her praise as a condemnation of her then-rival for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama. Dean’s quote is more than five years old, one from Tom Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader, is more than eight years old.
The praise from the left has been fainter since McCain starting running for President.
But the ad is designed demonstrate one of the points McCain makes regularly on the stump – that he can work across the aisle with Democrats.
The campaign isn’t spending money on the ad, beyond having produced it. They’ve parked it on YouTube, and are hoping for the free media of cable coverage to propel the ad beyond the Internet.
2004 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., released a statement Thursday in response to McCain’s new ad, arguing McCain has changed.
"The McCain campaign is determined to give their Paris Hilton ad a run for its money in the desperation department, and they’ve succeeded only in shining a light on the fact that the John McCain of today is unrecognizable from the John McCain of just a couple years ago," Kerry wrote.
"The real question is what happened to the John McCain we used to know and why he changed overnight into a George Bush nominee with a Karl Rove campaign. The new John McCain supports the Bush tax giveaways for the wealthy he once denounced, opposes his own immigration bill, flip-flopped on torture, and runs negative ads after calling for an honorable campaign," Kerry's statement read.
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean also resonded: "John McCain a maverick? The John McCain of 2000 wouldn't even consider voting for the John McCain of 2008. The American people are learning that the John McCain of 2008 represents more of the same failed policies we've gotten from George Bush for the past eight years. Senator McCain is clearly in the tank for Exxon and big oil, for keeping our troops stuck in Iraq for decades to come, and for an economic policy that puts tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations above relief for hardworking families. John McCain has changed: he's taken the low road, leveling false, negative and misleading attacks against Barack Obama. John McCain is no more a maverick within the Republican Party than Dick Cheney is. He's just more of the same."
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All the "living under a rock" bloggers who consistently accuse Sen Obama as being a Muslim: Watch out, a storm is coming and you will be washed away into the storm drain. Your lungs will absorb the sand and water and you will surely drown - still hating and still misinformed. tsk, tsk, tsk...
Posted by: Dee | Aug 7, 2008 11:19:07 AM
The media is propping up McCain like
" Weekend at Bernie's "
Posted by: Ron | Aug 7, 2008 11:19:12 AM
Both parties have been hijacked by neo-cons and neo-libs however I can not in my right mind vote for a socialist who seems more concerned about redistribution of wealth to the "world citizens" than the interests of americans. It's too bad that a lot of liberals have been replaced by the faith based idealist eutopia that the neo-libs embrace above everything else. Neo-libs have lost the tolerance, open mindedness, rationality and ability to see multi faceted bipartisan issues that classic liberals possessed. Even though I didn't agree with liberal idealogy I could respect it. Modern neo-libs I lump more in with religious conservatives who base their politics on religion/faith rather than logic and reason.
McCains response to the race card was great. In my opinion there is no question this is exactly what Obama was doing just like he pulled it on Clinton several times. McCain showed he isn't going to take that garbage and end up being on the defensive about race but will keep it out of the election as it should be. Racism is wrong no matter your skin color or nationality.
Posted by: Cryos | Aug 7, 2008 11:19:34 AM
Either one would be better than what we have now.
Posted by: Chuck | Aug 7, 2008 11:24:43 AM
It's McCain vs McCain . He is a legend in his own mind.
Posted by: Ron | Aug 7, 2008 11:25:02 AM
McCain has a history of practicing bipartisanship.
Obama has a history of talking about bipartisanship
Posted by: Miguel | Aug 7, 2008 11:25:23 AM
Why does McShame put out ads that are all lies. He is a Bush clone. Bush lied all the time and started a war the McShame supported.
Posted by: gl | Aug 7, 2008 11:25:59 AM
8 year old quotes, that's before McBush sold his soul for the white house, trashed any values he ever had and became a joke. Why doesn't he go back to the 70's, I'm sure he can dig up SOMETHING good about himself from then.
Posted by: JR | Aug 7, 2008 11:26:44 AM
McBush, McShame...
Yeah, those comments sound like they were made by 8-year-olds.
Posted by: Miguel | Aug 7, 2008 11:28:24 AM
Hillary2012 - It will never happpen. She will be too old like McShame.
Posted by: gl | Aug 7, 2008 11:30:36 AM
Cryos: News Flash, McCain played the race card not Obama... It has been proven, Repubs are walking away from McCain as of today because of his actions or lack of them.
I watched one of McCains town hall meeting a few weeks ago, he told those people that "Obama did not look like any other president on the dollar bill" McCain said that, NOT Obama. My first thought was "why because he is black" my second though was "how low can McCain go". Pretty low I guess.
The Arizona senator is running a barnyard demeaning campaign even comparing Senator Obama to Paris Hilton, lying about Obama's record of visiting our wounded warriors and lying about Obama playing the "race card." Denouncing the new Dirty Politics McCain, McCain's own former strategist, John Weaver said to Newsweek: "Its hard to imagine America responding to 'small ball' when we have all these problems."
McCain is going to lose this election. And the way he loses will take the Republicans down with him.
As a former Republican activist who, as late as 2000, was campaigning for John McCain against Bush, today I am a dedicated supporter of Senator Obama. Yes, I changed my mind. But that isn't the point. My point here is to ask how the Republicans will define themselves by the means they use to try to define and defeat Obama.
Posted by: beck | Aug 7, 2008 11:32:05 AM
McCain is the most arrogant candidate out there.
Posted by: Brandon | Aug 7, 2008 11:33:58 AM
McShame praised Obama at the NNACP convention a month ago. So who paaised who?
Posted by: gl | Aug 7, 2008 11:34:37 AM
That's fine. If they want to replay good examples of the civility of the Democrats, more power to them!
Posted by: jock59801 | Aug 7, 2008 11:36:35 AM
GJohn,
Sorry buddy but your not fooling anyone about being a former Republican voting for Obama. The republicans and many democrats are voting McCain this year. Obama was in the senate for 1 year before he started running for president. He voted "present" on over 100 issues in that 1 year that he was in the senate instead of voting "for" or "against" the issues. He has changed his position on almost every issue since he has been running for president. No one believes a word of what this guys says or even knows where he stands.
A Democrat who is paying attention.
Posted by: Jeff | Aug 7, 2008 11:39:42 AM
They praised McCain back 5 to 10 years ago when he was "Maverick" and not the empty suite he is today.
Yea, find a Dem that will praised the old man today not 5 to 10 years. Mcshame ads all reach too far from the truth. Like I said, McShame just praised Obama at the NNACP a month ago not 5 to 10 years ago. Nice try, but to far of a reach. McShame is seen today as an old out of touch angry man who is so jeaslous of Obama press coverages so day after day the McShame machine keep putting out fault ads about Obama just to get some media coverage. How sad for the McShame campaign.
Posted by: gl | Aug 7, 2008 11:44:45 AM
Praise MacCain! give me a break. This is my slogan: "Give MacCain a cane." He wouldn't even survive a full 4 year term. The man is too old. Hello!!
Posted by: James | Aug 7, 2008 11:45:57 AM
If John Kerry would have fought back for himself like he is doing for Obama, he would have beaten Bush. McCain HAS changed. His campaign has turned nasty and irrelevent. Problem is, this negative stuff works on the naive American voters.
Posted by: Phil | Aug 7, 2008 11:49:27 AM
WHAT????? Politics? Is there going to be an election.....
AKA: Who CARES! They're all crooks in their own way.
Posted by: ME | Aug 7, 2008 11:50:34 AM
Love it!
Posted by: samhiguchi | Aug 7, 2008 11:50:55 AM
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