Decrying Attack Ads
Oct 21, 2008 Political
Recently, concerns have been expressed about the negative attack ads in the presidential race. Both sides are doing it but of course the whiny liberals are crying about John MCain’s attacks on The One. General Colin Powell said he did not like the tone of the ads coming from the McCain camp. He must have been too busy worshiping The Obamessiah to have heard the attacks on Sarah Palin. The problem with most of the Obama ads is that they are inaccurate.
John McCain cannot use a computer.
Well guess what … He can but
Barack cannot land a jet plane on an aircraft carrier at night.
Big Dog Salute to Woodman.
Obama Does Not Need Fact Checkers
Aug 5, 2008 Political
Barack Obama has had a devil of a time getting ads out that were factually correct. His ads tout bills he never voted on or sponsored and they make false claims about his opponent. None of this really matters because the people who support Obama are star struck and would believe anything he says. This is why he does not need fact checkers. They would never consider the truth as an alternative and in the unlikely event that people start to notice the chosen one shouts Hope and Change and all the supporters go back into a trance.
Obama’s latest ad calls John McCain a tool of Big Oil (which is better than being a tool, like The One). Obama makes this claim because McCain has received money from oil companies and, according to Pbama, has voted to give Big Oil tax breaks. There is just one small problem with these two assertions. Obama has received money from Big Oil so he has no moral high ground from which to cast stones. But at least these donations are legal, unlike many of Obama’s other donations.
The other problem with the ad is the claim about tax breaks. McCain voted against a bill that would give a break to oil companies (and other energy producers). Get that, McCain voted against it. The Obama ad shows Bush and McCain and the narrator states; “After one president in the pocket of big oil — we can’t afford another.” The Bill McCain voted against was one the president favored so it would appear that they were not two peas in that pod.
But the interesting thing that will likely escape the Obamabots is that Obama voted FOR the bill giving the oil companies tax breaks… Obama voted for the very item his ad goes after McCain for.
Obama is out touting his energy plan. He wants to take money from the profits of the oil companies and give each person $1000 to help afford gas or heating oil. When the government seizes the assets of a private company and then distributes them to the people, this is Socialism. It is redistribution of wealth plain and simple. Once again Obama shows he is a Socialist. BTW, windfall profit taxes did not work the last time a Democrat tried them.
I am going to write this again because the mind numbed Obama followers and the idiot Democrats in Congress seem to have trouble with it. They use terms like obscene profits, record profits and other words to make it seem as if the oil companies are above any other company and are screwing people. This is simply NOT the case. The profit margins of the oil companies is between 8 and 12%. This is a perfectly acceptable profit margin and it is not obscene. The dollar amounts are hig but the percentage is normal. Many companies have profit margins much larger than Big Oil. Coke and Microsoft are two. The government is not confiscating their assets and giving it to others.
Let me be clearer for the really slow liberals (but I repeat myself), the oil companies make 8-10 cents per gallon of gas sold. That is it, 8-10 cents. The government, on the other hand, takes 18.4 cents per gallon (and this does not include what the states take). This means that the government is taking in more than the oil companies are on the sale of gasoline. Where are the cries about obscene profits the government gets for a product it has nothing to do with? You want price gouging, the federal gas tax is it.
It is very simple folks. Supply and demand. If we drill our own we will increase supply and the price will go down.
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al-Reuters
Clinton Pulls Ad That was Full of Lies
Jan 24, 2008 Political
I wrote earlier that the Clinton mantra is that it isn’t illegal until they tell you it is and a variation of that can be used for the way they run their campaign. To the Clintons it is OK or non offensive until someone says it is. This is the case with a recent ad that the Clinton crime family was running in South Carolina. The ad was full of lies and half truths with regard to Barack Obama. A lot of people were very unhappy with the ad and the outright lies in it and these people were Democrats. The ad was pulled earlier today not long after it started running.
The Clintons will continue this approach and hope that something they do sticks. They will sling mud and if it causes backlash their way they will wipe off the mud and sling some from a different direction. Eventually they will find a handful that will stick to Obama and get people to question his candidacy. The first tactics involved Hillary crying and Bill attacking Obama the night before and election. The MSM is reporting that this tactic has gotten old with the Democratic faithful and some are beginning to look at Bubba in a new light. In Nevada it was claims of voter irregularities leveled by Bill Clinton even though the real intimidation was the actions of Clinton people.
Now that Bill has been warned by the elder party statesmen, they had to devise a new plan and that plan involved spreading lies about Obama. Fortunately, many in the party saw this for what it was and pitched a fit forcing the Clinton gang to remove the ad.
This is not the end. Obama leads in South Carolina by nearly 20 points even though Hillary had a double digit lead as late as last November. She is playing down SC but her campaign is actively trying to win it because they have invested quite a bit in the state. Obama led by double digits in New Hampshire and lost to the beast and it is quite possible he can lose again. It all depends upon how many illegitimate votes the Clintons can muster.
Regardless of the outcome, the Clintons will continue to throw mud all the while hoping some of it sticks. I guess they are not aware that if you throw enough mud you are left in a hole.
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