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DNC Video: Bush-McCain: Same Wolves
September 10, 2008 6:34 PM
ABC News' Tahman Bradley reports: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., came under attack Wednesday by the Democratic National Committee for using wolves in a television commercial against rival Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. A new DNC Web video calls the McCain campaign's use of wolves to attack the Democratic presidential nominee the "same old tactics" as George W. Bush.
The video plays a piece of a 2004 spot by the Bush re-election campaign that uses wolves and meshes it with McCain's new ad, "Fact Check." To hammer the point home, the closing disclosure line features the voices of both McCain and Bush. Watch it HERE.
During the final stretch of the '04 election, the Bush-Cheney campaign famously used the image of wolves in a dark forest to paint Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry as weak on national security.
The '04 election was not the first time that a Republican used a menacing (or potentially menacing) creature against a Democratic opponent in a commercial. In 1984, a Ronald Reagan campaign ad referred to the Soviet threat as a "bear" that his opponent, Walter Mondale, did not even recognize as a threat.
McCain's original Wednesday ad, which accuses Obama of dispatching a team of operatives to Alaska to dig up some dirt on Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, claims Obama is out to destroy Palin. The Obama campaign says that they have sent no such team to Alaska.
This time, according to the McCain spot, Democrats are the creatures on the prowl.
Below is a script for the DNC video.
SCRIPT
IMAGE: Wolves from John McCain's Attack Ad
CHYRON: John McCain Attack Ad 2008
VOICEOVER: 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers...
IMAGE: Wolves from Bush Attack Ad
CHYRON: George W. Bush Attack Ad 2004
VOICEOVER: And weakness attacks those that are waiting to do America harm.
MCCAIN: I'm John McCain...
BUSH: I'm George W. Bush...
BUSH & MCCAIN: ...and I approved this message.
CHYRON: Same old tactics. Same old policies. Four more years?
This time, according to the McCain spot, Democrats are the creatures on the prowl.
September 10, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (92)
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This ad was on point. Obama has had a group of attackers against any opponents not just McCain. He has no campaign without the attacking wolves.
McCain/Palin will win. Obama's cheap tricks need to go back to his corrupt Chicago political buddies.
Posted by: Mary | Sep 10, 2008 6:48:32 PM
Maybe those wolves are just getting revenge for being hunted from the air. Can you say Freudian slip?
Posted by: PBW | Sep 10, 2008 6:51:34 PM
McCain has lost all honor. Country first my #@$. He has shown he'll stoop to any level to win. Don't fall for it America. This is our childerns future we're fighting for.
Posted by: linda n carolina | Sep 10, 2008 6:51:39 PM
Wolves? Do they really want to go THERE? Quick Todd, rev up the helicopter so we can go plug those suckers!
Posted by: mila | Sep 10, 2008 6:52:05 PM
I'm sure they're just actor wolves anyway. Like they used actors to portray soldiers and their families in their "tribute" to the troops at the Republican convention.
Posted by: mila | Sep 10, 2008 6:54:36 PM
Mary,
Wrong!! Fact check stated that the Democrats and Obama never sent anyone up there, however the McCain camp sent several. Ignorance is not bliss Mary...
Posted by: jen | Sep 10, 2008 6:55:09 PM
Uhh, Mary, did you happen to see the Republican convention? You must not have, if you think that it's Obama whose entire campaign is based on facts.
For cryin' out loud, Republicans have the audacity to say they are about values, yet they don't have any sense of shame about the fact that their leaders lie like pros - again and again.
Mary, how many people do you think McCain and the RNC have doing opposition research on Obama and Biden?
Seriously, some people are either stupid (republican voters), or think everyone else is stupid (republican politicians).
Posted by: Ed | Sep 10, 2008 6:55:25 PM
Mary...I think you need to substitute McCain for Obama. There have been no "cheap tricks" from Obama...but it's all the McCain camp has. Remember they haven't allowed the American people to hear Sarah Palin answer any questions from the media. That's the cheapist trick of all.
Posted by: Hockey Moms for Obama | Sep 10, 2008 6:56:11 PM
Heh, Freudian slip, I can't even write "Obama's campaign is based on attacks" because it's so obviously not true
Posted by: Ed | Sep 10, 2008 6:56:47 PM
Right on HM for O. Indeed, if it's the media the McCain campaign is afraid of, at least have her answer some questions from uncommitted voters.
Most of us don't know much about Palin at all. In reality, she may be an intelligent person who'd make a capable VP. But without taking questions and telling us what she thinks about the issues, there's no way for most of us to assess that. And the fact that McCain met her once before giving her the nod makes me wonder if he knows himself what she stands for.
If Palin's as great as McCain would have us believe she is, then he shouldn't be so afraid to have her answer some questions on the issues.
Posted by: Ed | Sep 10, 2008 6:59:47 PM
Sen. John McCain has proved himself to be unqualified and incapable of effectively leading the United States of America into the future by, among other things, his reckless, irresponsible, impulsive, and dangerous judgment in picking Sarah Palin as his running mate. Sarah Palin is a minor distraction not even worthy of discussion. However, Sen. John McCain has shown his contempt for the intelligence of the American people by making this unequivocally cynical decision to use an unknown, untested, and corrupt, serial liar like Sarah Palin to deceive voters into believing he stands for change. Sen. John McCain also disgraced himself by demonstrating a lack of courage in his choice of Sarah Palin at the last moment over much more qualified Republican men and women simply because she appeals to the base of the Republican Party, a group of voters he was going to lose. What Sen. John McCain doesn't understand is that by appeasing the extreme right wing of the Republican Party, he is going to lose the voters that really count, i.e., moderate and independent voters, and, in doing so, certainly lose the election. Obama/Biden 2008!!!
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1043793620080910?feedType=nl&feedName=ustopnewsafternoon
According to the Pentagon, we are losing Afghanistan.
Posted by: caliguy55 | Sep 10, 2008 7:00:04 PM
Mary is typical rep-LIE-can. Say it enough and people might but into it.
Posted by: linda n carolina | Sep 10, 2008 7:01:30 PM
you guys of the triple RP (REAL RACIST REPUBLICAN PARTY)are so weak minded til you are funny.Don't you men,women so called blue collar workers know the Triple RP is in it to benefit the rich,i know i'm rich they use you,the religious,blue collar,the racist,your fear to stay in power.I am an independant i vote for the best person not party.Wake up 8yrs same party country in recession time to give the other group a shot.if they suck the 4yrs later we give someone else a shot,remeber this if you get the wrong guy in the whitehouse your job and and other things you might lose,but the wealthy we'll still be rich the morning after.
Posted by: mychal teller | Sep 10, 2008 7:09:57 PM
Was Obama's Freudian slip about his Muslim faith the Wright thing to say?
Posted by: dl | Sep 10, 2008 7:10:26 PM
mychal teller
Race-baiter, race-baiter!
Posted by: dl | Sep 10, 2008 7:11:10 PM
William Ayers and Barack Obama: A Revolutionary Campaign
http://www.pr-inside.com/william-ayers-and-barack-obama-finally-r797225.htm
Posted by: LightSeeker | Sep 10, 2008 7:11:45 PM
mychal teller
Race-baiter, race-baiter!
Posted by: dl | Sep 10, 2008 7:14:19 PM
Community Organizer = Democratic thug!
Posted by: dl | Sep 10, 2008 7:14:33 PM
Well the trolls have come out of the woodwork just like roaches when you turn the lights out.Nothing to say but lies and inuendos.
Posted by: linda n carolina | Sep 10, 2008 7:17:04 PM
Why won't Obama allow his baby mama outdoors?
Posted by: dl | Sep 10, 2008 7:17:49 PM
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