THE SUBJECT : Barack Obama campaign ad - TRUTH version !

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THE SUBJECT : Barack Obama campaign ad - TRUTH version ! [ OCTOBER 2008 ]

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Tuesday night's presidential debate offers Republican John McCain one of his last best chances to stop Democrat Barack Obama's recent surge in the race and turn it in his favor.

The debate's town hall format is McCain's favorite style of campaigning. He asked Obama to appear with him in a series of town hall debates this past summer, but Obama wouldn't take him up on the challenge.

That leaves Tuesday night's debate four weeks before Election Day as the only joint town hall that the two are scheduled to hold. The event at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., is being moderated by NBC's Tom Brokaw and will include questions on both foreign and domestic policy raised by the audience and voters participating through the Internet.

But the candidates are likely to go after each other on character issues, which McCain's team has forcefully re-injected into the campaign since the weekend.

GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has raised Obama's ties to 1960s-era radical William Ayers and to the Democrat's former pastor, the incendiary Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In New Mexico on Monday, McCain himself asked, "Who is the real Sen. Obama?"

Obama retorted in North Carolina that McCain was engaging "in the usual political shenanigans and smear tactics" to distract from economic issues, even as his campaign rolled out a video recounting McCain's involvement in the 1980s Keating Five savings and loan scandal in which the Senate Ethics Committee criticized his "poor judgment."

The newest TV ad from the Obama campaign plays up widespread reports that McCain's focus on the Democrat's past associations is an effort to turn the discussion away from the economy. "As Americans lose their jobs, homes and savings, it's time for a president who'll change the economy, not change the subject," says the ad released Tuesday.

The town hall is McCain's signature -- one way he built his "Straight Talk" reputation by interacting with voters in the 2000 campaign and then pulled himself out of single digits to win this year's Republican primary. Since he won the nomination, however, the audiences for these events have needed to get tickets and have not been the come-one-come-all events of the primaries.

Obama has used the town hall format sporadically throughout his campaign, but not recently.

Instead the Democratic nominee has carefully protected his lead with a highly scripted campaign style ever since an off-the-cuff line blew up into a false controversy four weeks ago. Ever since, he's been exclusively sticking to rallies and speeches with a TelePrompTer almost always feeding him prepared text to read.

Obama's last town hall was on Sept. 12 -- three days after he went on a riff about how McCain is talking about change when he's really just like President Bush and concluded, "You can put lipstick on a pig."

Obama hadn't even mentioned McCain running mate Sarah Palin before using the line, but the McCain campaign argued it was a clear reference to her signature line during her nomination acceptance speech the week before, when she said the only difference between hockey moms like her and a pit bull is lipstick.

No matter Obama's intent, the debate dominated a full day of campaign coverage and distracted from Obama's plans to focus the campaign on criticism of McCain.

Obama went ahead with two more town halls scheduled for the following three days -- one the next day in Virginia, where he lashed out at McCain and the media for blowing up his comment, and another two days later in New Hampshire, where a voter drew the spotlight when he rose and demanded to know when Obama would bring more of a fighting spirit against his critics.

Obama isn't the only one trying to minimize the chance for an unscripted moment at this critical stage of the campaign. McCain still holds his signature town hall meetings but has limited his interaction with the media.

McCain's campaign plane is still emblazoned "Straight Talk Express," but the couch installed at the front doesn't carry reporters for freewheeling conversations like in the early days on his primary campaign bus trips. The town hall debate could be McCain's chance to again to come across to voters as feisty, warm, engaging and quick-witted. Those qualities are harder to show in scripted events.

But a town hall debate is not the same as a town hall campaign event -- McCain will be sharing the stage with Obama, and his every word will be parsed.

: ASSOCIATED PRESS [ OCTOBER 7, 2008 ]

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[theunforgivn81]

Wow, good job proving Obama right by making this video.

[Alyrith]

"OMG BARACK HUGE LIAR"

"McCain WILL FIX OUR ECONOMY"

This video is pathetic and a waste of time, you shout nothing but lies and half truths. Mccain was one of the voters that forced America down this economic route. Obama will not raise taxes on the working or middle class only those earning over 250k. that amounts to a tax cut for about 90% of the people. please in future try to provide evidence for your arguments or it just makes you look like a fool

[woodydavidson420]

LOL at 2008 election!!!!!  RON PAUL 2012!!!

[imbubba56]

Great job Barry...you fucked up everything.

[Lethkhar14]

Why would a Nazi vote for a black man?

[jakesmistress]

Perhaps your mother is a Nazi.

[halcyonkayak]

My mother grew up in Nazi Germany as well. She does not see what your mother sees. A perception such as the one you're implying is absolutely subjective. My mother, also an American now, voted for Obama and was thrilled to do so. He's our president now. Let go of the outlandish Hitler comparison. YOu sound like an idiot.

[jakesmistress]

my mother,84,grew up in Nazi Germany. She says she sees the same Madness in Obama's eyes as she saw in Hitler. She worked in a hotel and anytime someone said something negative about Hitler, that person would just disappear. Many of her friends. She survived the bombings, in 1954 came to America with my American Soldier father. She became a US Citizen and a very proud one. She recognizes the look in Obama's eyes and she said she does not want to live thru it again. Please vote for McCain.

[Kachavite]

Obama/Biden '08 A change has come !

[BitterCycle]

And you have it quite backwards. Too many punk tards are voting for obama because he is black and "anti establishment". Give it a rest. BTW, McCain wanted new tougher laws to stop these crooked lenders before it got out of hand, and obama along with the majority of the democrats in congress said "no". That's a fact. Now go out and play, but tell mommy where you are first.

[BitterCycle]

Obama and biden voted for tax hikes on incomes as low as 42,000 last year, has dropped this years cut off line from 300,000 to 200,000, with talks now ranging between 150,000 and 120,000. Reinstall a massive carterish welfare system, and cause companies to raise prices and layoff workers. Obama claims he will personally pay to keep their jobs open, where is he going to find this magical trillion dollars to do that, and yes, his plan calls for about a trillion in spending in the next four years.

[BitterCycle]

He's not 100% a liar, he does approve of lying and fluff. He approves of a tax hike for people making as low as 42,000 in their household income in 2007 as well. He also approves of admitting that he led the voters on, and is looking for a way to let them down, unless his aide that made that claim is a liar also ?