Campaign Ads
Posted on August 5, 2008
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I like Campaign Ads, not as much as I like debates but they bring a level of personality to them that really tells you a lot about the candidates. It’s that message at the end, that they approved the message, it gives me the feeling that they dissected the message personally before it was sent out, even if they didn’t. I take everything said in campaign ads to have come directly from the candidate’s mouth, they approved everything in the ad.
Moving on there’s 2 new one’s, Obama’s National Priority, another one about energy. His last few ads have gone half and half with attacking McCain and then telling us why he’s great, considering how horrible McCain is I’m surprised he was able to hold back. One thing I really like is citations, nine times out of ten when they make a claim about McCain they back it up with votes he’s made. He’s been criticized for using McCain’s left side of his face (the one that was scared more from his skin cancer) almost exclusively, but even if I pause it and stare directly into my screen I don’t notice a difference between the 2 sides of his face. He finishes off the ad with a few ‘broad goals’ and a few very specific measures he wants to get passed.
Now onto McCain’s new ad Broken where he talks about how Washington is broken. Let’s take a look at who’s taking control of Washington, a Republican president, a Republican minority using every trick in the book to stall congress and a Supreme Court that sides with big business and torture. Washington is broken, and it’s the Republicans who have spent the last 8 years breaking it, the first thing they mention is how McCain has knowledge of the incident, like he hasn’t been there for 26 years watching it crumble. We’re worse off than we were 4 years ago, so continuing the same failed policies won’t work, right? They start off with…McCain taking on…big tobacco? That doesn’t even make sense, people are losing their homes and jobs, so McCain is going to be right there fighting those big drug companies as hard as he can. He’ll reform wall street? Why isn’t he calling to end the speculation in the markets, whatever it’s called when people with $1,000 can buy $100,000 dollars worth of oil, end that and you’ll really reform wall street, if not their eyes will always be bigger than their stomach. Battle big oil, we just learned you and your party took thousands of dollars to change from maybe offshore drilling to trying to call congress back into session to support offshore drilling.
There’s no substance in McCain’s ad, it’s a whole lot of talk. No citations, no specific plans, just that he’s a maverick and he’s ready to lead. I will hand it to him, there’s no pop stars and he’s not comparing Obama to fictional characters anymore but that doesn’t mean this ad stinks any less. He doesn’t even put in the ad his support for offshore drilling, or his support for ‘2 parent families’, or even his gas tax holiday crap. Nothing about lowering taxes, but that’s probably because you can’t battle big oil by lowering their taxes. It’s a horrible ad, attempting to mislead people by a lot of broad talk, it feels like this ad was made by a high school student who has yet to discover the internet. It doesn’t represent the candidate McCain’s trying to be, while Obama’s ad seems to portray exactly what Obama wants. McCain bad, Obama good, while McCain’s ad is like “McCain, eh?”.
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