OBAMA IS THE FAILURE

I just saw the ad, well that is VERY fitting, empty suit or dress like Paris or Britney although he seems to be a better parent than Britney, I will give him that. As far as qualifications for Prez though yes, about the same as Britney or Paris running, they too could probably read a TELEPROMPTER (when they’re not drunk that is). McCAIN/ROMNEY 2008!!!!

Obama’s Ad did not appear to be a downer at all. It’s the nasty McCain ads that worry me… and the FOX News “reporting” that also worries me….

McCane is an old man that has not had a new idea in years. He must be reading People or other mags of that nature. Why doesn’t he retire. I would if I had a wife that looked like his with her money. I would open a bar and be totally satisfied. Why screw up the country for another 4 years or less….don’t think he could last….The Joker

It’s the Mccain Ads and FOX news “reporting” that concerm ne. The Obama Ad was not nasty or a downer in any way.

o wonderful ——————————-
yapper mccane is a real puss
the nv did evene want him
i think he belongs with the girls
some commander in chief he will make
may be a female bomber take him out
blessings bob knab *

Fox, this article seems very biased. Obama “used this line of attack all day”? What is it that Obama is “attacking”? And Obama has a “downer ad of its own responding to what it feels are continued TV attacks from the McCain campaign”? Why is it considered a “downer” ad, and everybody feels they are attack ads not just Obama.

Really now, what’s going on here?

I don’t like either of the candidates, but I am respectful enough not to compare them to trailer trash. It must be a slow news day.

I’m concerned that someone will figure out that John McCaim is the one supporting giving tax cuts to Paris Hiltin and other rich spoiled kids while Obama wants to tax ‘em–Wasn’t this the kind of rich girl John McCain would have chased around the shrimp table back in the day when he was a playboy? In all seriousness, I think this is a stupid tactic and I hope someone smart like Gergin or Ed Rollins can talk some sense into McCain’s campaign people.

wondering if McCain even knows who Britney and Paris are, guess he just thought that they were nice looking women to traipse about that ad. You know he hasn’t seen any of their “body of work” he can’t even sign onto the internet.

Say What. FOX News - what are you up to? Obama’s AD was not nasty or a downer. WHere do you get this stuff?

Dude’s got class. McCain should take notes.

So why is McCain desparately criticizing Obama for “being popular”? Well, he tried to criticise him for wanting to withdraw troups from Iraq and shifting them to Afghanistan; that didn’t work out so well for McCain. He tried to criticise him for calling for more direct diplomacy with Iran; and now Bush has finally come around to agreeing with Obama on this point. Obama is the first candidate ever to forgo using tax-payer dollars to fund his campaign, while McCain will spend $87M of them, and conservative McCain tried to criticise him for this. He doesn’t have much else any more than that Obama is “popular”.

It’s become very clear that this is not an election between Obama and McCain – this is an election between Obama and Not Obama. Conservatives spend at least 80% of their energy blasting Obama; I seldom see any of them (including McCain ads) suggest reasons that McCain would make a good president.

I wish we would hear something substantial and political of the campaigns. Candidates should study why 75 % of us think congress is doing a lousy job. I donated to the McCain campaign because I am a member of the Republican party, not because I wanted to see a circus number.

Can’t argue with that ad. All McCain has left is to tear down Obama, which is really sad. Wasn’t McCain the one who promised that this would be a campaign of ideas? If so, where are his?

If the only “idea” he has is to stage more Bush-like catastrophes, then definitely, positively no thanks; I’ll bet on Obama.

And what about the ad McCain runs with a picture of Fidel Castro and Obama side by side… Really dissapointing… Reagan was a great inspiring leader and McCain is not… Obama seems to inspire and that is what the people want… I want a president who is like by the world… It helps our cause. Sorry to say I really hope McCain doesnt win….

Ridiculous! Seems like the republicans are jealous of the way Obama can impact our world. It does matter that he can get along so well with foreign leaders. We can’t afford to stay in Iraq, if we are going to continue in Afghanistan then we need the help of other nations. We can’t continue borrowing from China! They adore republicans like former president Reagan, who was an actor before entering politics. How about Schwarzenegger who some republicans were even trying to change the constitution for. Even stating that he is good for business because people know his face from movies. And yet you take one man who is able to affect people who hunger for change and are tired of the same old Washington politics.

Over and over again we say look Obama has inspired this person and that one, but you know what he’s black and what do they do? They hang him out to dry! …pathetic. Why should I vote for McCain, he is too old! The media clearly stated that the job of the Commander and chief is a stressful one, It ages you by ten years. Who would I be voting for McCain or his VP!

McCain is so desperate he’s starting to come unhinged.

I’ll show you not use negative ads, here take that! *hurls negative ad*

I agree with what Obama says: If you spend all of your time criticizing your opponent, it implies that you have nothing positive to say about yourself. Sadly, this is true of John McCain. More sadly, using an ad hominem attack on your opponent does nothing constructive and shows a lack of something more substantive from an already-desperate McCain campaign.

Talk about an irony. John McCain calls Barack Obama and elitist. Let’s see. Who is it that with his wife owns somewhere between eight and twelve houses, has God only knows how many millions of dollars, a personal airplane and even more millions from the Anheuser Busch Belgian byout? I thought that was John McCain.

McCain we just are so tired of you negative approach! Where did the old McCain go to? Hat to say this but I’am going to vote for Obama he has proved to be a better leader for this country. My vot will be for Obama.

pELOSI and her gang “destroy America” for Dems…

Vote to ban the planting of corn, ” It won’t be ready to use for months ” she said.

pELOSI and her gang “destroy America” for Dems…

Vote to ban the planting of corn, ” It won’t be ready to use for months ” she said.

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Ironic to hear McCain calling Obama an elitist when McCain has been the consumate Washington insider with a $100M trophy wife who flys him to campaign events in her corporate helicopter. Obama worked his way from the tough Chicago streets to Harvard Law School. The GOP has invented a new definition for the word elitist to describe a “popular go-getter”. Republican’s obviously favor non-elitist like Dubya who rise to power the old fashined way through inherited wealth and well connected pals.

You mentioned that Obama had his own negative attack ad in response, but you didn’t describe it to me. You mentioned a recent ad but it is pretty accurate, and this article goes far in proving it. Pathetic. But, you know, keep trying, you are only helping put a Dem in the white house, which is nothing compared to what it will be like to watch your network eat it’s own words for the next four years and hopefully disappear from my cable box.

I don’t like the fact that McCain has spent so much time being negative, but I can understand it. The media’s paparazzi fascination with Obama annoys the heck out of me and I’m not even a Republican. It’s been how many months now and the man is still speaking in vague buzzwords, and people are eating it up. They bragged last year that after 8 years of Bush they could get Donald Duck elected… now what does that say about the intelligence of the American people?

It’s time these two got down to the facts, so I can get back to dreaming that I live in a country where voters pay more attention to what a candidate does and stands for than what they read in an editorial or how he looks on TV.

Politician are forgetting one fundamental rule. We are smarter and more evolved then their tactics. It’s so easy to see beyond the game. I think the McCain camp should realize this. If Hillary couldn’t do it I doubt if his campaign can. Now lets see if Fox publishes this.

Has McCain really run out of things to say? A very sad day.

I am really disappointed with John McCain’s choice to start running a negative campaign. He should focus on the strengths of his values - NOT denigrating his opponent. It seems especially hypocritical given his criticism of Bush’s negative campaigning against him in 2000, and which arguably cost him the Republican nomination.

Barack Obama has one thing right: we need a paradigm shift in how politics operate in this country. Politics as usual has become a disgusting spectacle that does nothing to advance this country or the quality of life for Americans.

Wow an Obama endorsement video at the beginning of this article. Is this even journalism or just a campaign promotion? Not saying I care for Mccain but this has gone past reporting facts and become a political circus.

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Pretty interesting how Obama condemns people who can’t say anything nice and then turns around and makes the exact same type of attack against McCain. Hypocracy anyone?

Sorry John, but when you heard that Obama visited Paris, it wasn’t that one.

Obama has not done anything yet so how’s he a failure. If these are the kind of people voting for mccain, we ain’t got nothing to worry about.

Which one said they wouldn’t go negative?

McCain’t needs to heed the call of retirement and help Cindy spend her billions.

And the Republicans need to come up with policies that don’t involve bankrupting the country and making each successive year worse than the previous one.

According to factcheck.org, 1/3 of McCain’s ads have been negative and only 1/10 of Obama’s have been negative. It sounds like Obama is simply responding to the overwhelming mudslinging that has become the McCain campaign. McCain, obviously, is desperate - he harangued Obama about not visiting Iraq, and then when Obama visited Iraq, he suddenly had to scramble around for a new way to attack Obama. Comparing him to Paris freakin’ Hilton? PLEASE. If you get close enough to the TV, you can probably get a whiff of McCain’s (rightfully) nervous sweat.

For a guy who said that he was going to stay the high road, poor old John has clearly lost his way. I wish he would stop making such a sorry spectacle of himself and get back to issues.

Thanks for the great insight to the discussion, I am sure you are wise beyond your years.

John McCain wonders why he’s slipping in NH when it should be a strong hold for him. It’s because of stuff like this. I liked him because I believed that he would take the high road and prove himself to be more worthy of the presidency than anyone else. Thus far, it appears that I’m mistaken.

(Above) The type of relevant, insightful, and supported comment I’ve come to expect from a McCain supporter and a Fox News subscriber. LOOK CAPS LOCKS!!!11111

Wow, thats funny. Im pretty sure failures dont lead in the polls or raise more than twice as much money as their opponent.

But, hey, if calling him a failure anonymously on a Fox News website makes you feel better, then knock yourself out. Just know that the rest of America is not so naive.

HAHAHAHA- Sign of many problems! desperate actions by a desperate man. Don’t high school girls do the name calling stuff??

i think McCain is heading wrong direction, if you keep sending negative ads and you don’t define your plan for this nation, then you are making same mistake Hillary did in primary election.

Wow…word of the day for the republicans…first Elitist - now comparing to Britney…jeez..obviously at the end of your rope! You have nowhere to go….

Obama is to Britney as McCain is to George Burns!

Pathetic. McCain can’t beat Obama on issues, so he makes ad homemin attacks. This is the character of a man who runs on “character”?

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Voting McSame is insane.
Obama is the Champ against the failed policies of the GWB.
Time for the Democrats, ANY Democrat.
Obama rocks!!!

Does anyone else realize how biased this article is? No other major news source uses the words ‘ridicule’ or ‘attack’ to describe the actions of either presidential candidate. This article is pretty blatant.

I think it is refreshing that these guys can be humorous while conducting a campaign.

The comparison to Britney and Paris isn’t negative it is funny. Honestly, I would hope both candidates and their supporters would enjoy the jibe.

It is certainly less negative then ads describing McCain as Bush in a different package.

If anything, it is a criticism of the media which has fallen head over heals into the Obama personality cult.

Honestly, I could care less about the number of people who came to the “Rock Star” events in Berlin. And I think McCain’s ad is a response to the stupidity of the coverage of Obama abroad.

I am still undecided… but I can appreciate a creative way of poking fun at your opponent.

I just wanted to point out to those that have used the term “trailer park trash” is not very respectful. It is a derogatory term toward families who have made a particular choice. I am a democrat who is not voting for Obama…some of the “open minded” enlightened one may call me racist based on that. Talk about hypocrisy.

thanks brent– just read your comment

In 2004, Obama compared himself to Paris. His memory must be slipping.

It’s really a pity Mccain is always criticizing his opponent. It doesn’t show much about how and what he thinks. Can’t he think of something better than attacking his opponent on a personal level? His arguments are not just beside the point but his arguments don’t have any point at all. He’s pathetic, isn’t he?…

I love the response ad. Every time Obama speaks he promises giving away lots of money that isn’t his to give. This man will try to buy his way into office by promising that he will make gas cheap, fix social security, and bail out every ‘middle class’ defaulting lender that is staring at foreclosure by taking it from ‘the rich’. None of these are within his power to do, but he’ll promise them anyway to buy the vote of any idiot that will listen. This man is one shade away from a socialist. I’ve voted democrat since 1988, but it will end here. Anyone who promises giving away other people’s money for a vote is a low life. I dont even qualify as ‘the wealthy’ under his definition (make over 230K), but it makes no difference. In principle, you just dont promise something that isn’t yours to give. Its not the money of the ‘government’, its the money of AMERICAN TAXPAYERS. Oh, and trust me, as we suck the money out of ‘the rich’ to pay for all the welfare recipients, the government will redefine what being rich means, and soon the ‘middle class’ will be called ‘the wealthy’ and paying for all the people in the US that insist on living beyond their means. As soon as the US becomes as big of a welfare state as most of Europe, I’m leaving. Obama is just another step in that direction. I’ll have nothing to do with him.

I am very disappointed with John MccCain; who knew? He says he is not George Bush, that he would run a different campaign, yet he is using the Bush, Rove, Atwater play book. I’ll never forget those awful Willie Horton ads Bush ran 24/7 against Dukakis.
McCain if you’re going to stick your toe in pop culture know this; Paris Hilton and Brittany Spears were HOT in 2005…not now.

Wow, McCain’s campaign hits a new low with that commercial. He seem to think the American people are a bunch of dumb 12 years old in a schoolyard. No wondering his “base” is melting so fast…

Downer? Not Obama’s ad Mr Bruns and Fox News, you folks better wake up. The only downer here is that downer cow John McCain. McCain’s latest attack is pathetic. It’s a pathetic ploy, a pathetic campaign plan, a pathetic candidate to lead the United States of America. Obama wins by default. Republicans and McCain can’t get their act together enough to even deserve serious consideration.

I truly feel that it is about time that one of these two candidates, either one mind you, takes a look at the situation that we have on our hands now. The country is running a $487+ billion dollar deficit next year, the dollar is 0.64 to the euro at the moment, gold has gone from around $250 less than a decade ago to nearly $1,000 (950+) today and I hear no solutions from either that I feel will work. Obama talks about raising the taxes on those Americans making over $250,000 a yr but when you look at the research done by the WSJ the rich don’t pay more when they are taxed more, they just stop investing as much while looking for loopholes to avoiding paying more in taxes. The economy, unfortunately, is not one of McCain’s strong points either. Our Congress is sending billions of dollars a year to nations around the world in the form of foreign aid and our entitlement program is larger than Canada’s GDP and here we are talking about how much OBAMA is like PARIS HILTON or SPEARS…I am saddened.

wana hear a joke?

fox news!!!

good coverage guys. this will really help us pick the better candidate.

You know McCain is in trouble when he gets mostly critical comments from readers of the Fox News web site.

maybe while mcangry was in the waiting room at the dermatologist waiting for his cancer biopsy results, he grabbed a copy of US or People and it hit him: viola! an attack ad spot featuring britney!

or maybe he gazed into wolf eye’s piercing drug-addled glare and thought… Paris!

the GOP is a mere shell of former itself.

i think there is no comments
to this ddiscussion because
FOX is not not going to publish
anything thing that is anti- mccain
FOX is pro-bush another necon organ
that why i think FOX is worthless
as a news service -
thankyou
blessing bob knab —————————-

As usual Fox only gives you part of the story. Obama’s ad was NOT a downer. You must not have watch the whole thing!

In case you missed it:
Barack Obama supports a $1,000 middle class tax cut.
An energy plan that takes on oil companies, develops alternative fuels, and breaks the grip of foreign oil. barackobama.com

McCain has quickly come to realize he’s overmatched. Hillary was a much stronger (she worked weekends and I believe her husband had some Washington connections) and smarter candidate. Now he sees why she lost and he has nothing but smear. It worked on him in 2000 and Kerry in 2004, but now that river is not only stagnant, it’s old and slow. Policy doesn’t work because all he has is drilling (and he’s newly flipped to that - forget that it won’t work) and his disastrous war that Obama and al-Maliki have given him a severe beatdown on. I might feel sorry for him except I always remember how he left his crippled wife.

FOX NEWS is EXCELLENT!!!! Lamestream, aka Will Ferrell or Bruce Almighty - type bobblehead media has been a parody for over 10 years. Good for a laugh, but certainly cannot be trusted for TRUTH or pro-American reporting. Guess they try to appeal to Europpeasers at their latte-sipping parties. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ boring self-absorbed, pseudo-intellects, artificial intelligence, YUK.

Paris Hilton isn’t the issue. Barrack Obama and his flip-flops every time he opens his mouth are . frankly, I ‘d rather he knew Paris Hliton than Ludicris.

When the Fox News blog comments start to turn against the Republican, you know he’s in trouble!

This is brilliant: TMZ.com is reporting that Paris Hilton’s parents donated $4300 to John McCain’s campaign. Now he’s trashing their daughter by comparing her to Barak Obama. This guy is senile. Trashing GOP stalwarts. The Hiltons are very wealthy Texas hotel barons–not “hollywood”. McCain is definitely off message. He should be bragging how his economic plans will help Paris Hiltin and all of her kind

Seems like McCain, after 20 years in the senate, ought to see if he can learn the difference between a Sunni and Shi’a, rather than between Obama and Britney/Paris.

That’d be a good start for a guy that hasn’t looked beyond the end of his nose for a very long time, and I assume both comparisons will be difficult for him to understand.

I am surprised that on a FOX-based site, most of the bloggers are blaming McCain for going negative.

There were 200 people, plus media and volunteers, under the picnic shelter at the event. Fox’s St. Louis affiliate (and every other outlet) reported that the 200 tickets to the event were all taken within minutes of their being offered yesterday. In addition, according to Fox’s KTVI, another 300 to 400 people stood outside the event in the rain, without tickets. To say there were 100 people when there was a definite count of 200 inside the pavilion is sloppy reporting at best, and a deliberate misrepresentation of turnout at the worst. Since this is a clear-cut, factual issue, I imagine a correction is forthcoming.

Good job Obama! We won’t be Swiftboated this time! The Republicans have two choices: Talk about the last 8 years or try to tear down Obama. McCain, you are soiling yourself. Keep this up and you will have succesfully transformed yourself from a respected public servant and warrior to another slimy politician who has no one’s respect.

The obvious biases of the above article demonstrate further that Fox News is functioning only as the unofficial house organ of the National Republican Party.

What piffle!

McCain’s ad prompted me to send the following to him via his web site:

There were only preselected items for a subject heading, so I chose “Tell us about an event”

The event I’m telling you about is your own, specifically your “Celeb” ad. Mr. McCain, your most recent ad, “Celeb” is the final straw for me. This add says NOTHING about you and is ONLY a cut to Obama. I take that back, it does say something about you, it says YOU are NOT presidential material. I don’t like your smug profile at the end of the ad either. One would think that at your age you would have grown up by now. Your childish negativity has led me to do something I’ve not yet done in my 30 years as a voter, I’ve just now donated money to the Obama campaign. Obama is the first presidential candidate in my 30 years as a voter that I’ve actually felt deserved to hold the presidency of the United States. Additionally, it is not difficult to see through your deceits, lies, fabrications and idiocy. You don’t have a compaign for the presidency, you have a campaign against Obama. How do you and those working for you sleep at night? No need to answer this question, it is rhetorical. Also, please, no response whatsoever is wanted at all. This message is informational to you only. I’ve created this special email address so I could track how you use it.
P.S. My phone number shown reads as: Oba-maT-he01, just in case you try to use it, it’s not real, but rather a statement.

Obama is very up to date: He referenced “Debbie Downer” from the Saturday Night Live skits. I hope he uses this example often. McCain has 3 horrible negative ads out this week; enough is enough! Just what does McCain stand for?

Gee. Even the readers of Fox news are ragging on McCain for his sleazy ads. McCain must be in deep trouble.

McSenile for President! (of Iraq)

thanks for posting my comment FOX.

. Obama is a risky candidate. A man who doesn’t admit he is wrong when the evidence show the surge is working is dangerous. He is a NEOPHITE and doesn’t know the difference between a rocket and a racket. He is full of hot air.

Since the GOP was silly enough not to nominate Ron Paul, I’m voting for Barack Obama. I disagree with him on many economy issues, but he’s got a vastly more sane grasp of reality than McCain, and doesn’t use cheap shot negative campaigning like McCain’s camp is unfortunately doing. McCain used to be a decent candidate, with the mantle of an old school Republican. Now he’s desperate and running on fumes.

I am not a McCain supporter at all but notice how many times they used the word old in this ad as you see an image of McCain. The Obama campaign is not much better when it comes to the same type of negative ads.

I hope Mccain is not the future of what used to be my party. He is so out of touch that I am going to go vote for OBAMA. His campain is clueless!!

well McCain is surely a liar, wasn’t he the one saying he wasn’t going for any negative campaign at the beginnining of the primaries? but there you are, he is playing dirty polititcs by going for these negative ads he is throwing out there, if he lies to the american people about small matters like campaigning, what other lies are lying ahead for the americans? watch out america there comes another liar liar, another bush term, i dont think so. the old man is really desperate to be the commander in chief, that he forgot about his promises to the americans that he gave during the primaries. he lied about not going the negative campaign, but he is doing exactly what he said he wont do, LIAR LIAR he is surely lying about all these promises he is giving about his policies and his economic plan and whatever as a president. by the way i won’t be voting for him.

The truth in the implication of this ad is that Obama has about as much experience and firm positions as Britney does. Inevitably, when you look into Obama’s past things will ony get worse for him. A shame for the Democrats who supported Hillary.

I am pleased to see the response from the American public.
How a person running for the presidency can belittle these troubled young women,
all in the name of politics. Sen.Obama can be proud of himself not to lower himself
to this level. I am not American,

But the road is still far, if MacCain has already lost ideas at this point, what will he do in the coming days, weeks and months? God help him.

Someone verbally attacks you. A counter attack is the usual response. When the response finally comes, it is a statement of the fact that you were verbally attacked.

Such a response is not a negative attack. It is called the truth.