I read this in a Newsweek article by David Kiley:
What the McCain campaign doesn’t want people to know, according to one GOP strategist I spoke with over the weekend, is that they had an ad script ready to go if Obama had visited the wounded troops saying that Obama was…wait for it…using wounded troops as campaign props. So, no matter which way Obama turned, McCain had an Obama bashing ad ready to launch. I guess that’s political hardball. But another word for it is the one word that most politicians are loathe to use about their opponents–a lie.
This is something McCain denied to Andrea Mitchell yesterday on MSNBC, but what’s a denial added to the lies coming from his campaign already? Not much, I’m afraid.
The desperation of McCain is too obvious for words, yet there are many who seem to be falling for the Karl Rove-ian techniques.
And now he keeps race in the issue by accusing Obama of playing “the race card” simply because the Democrat admits to being different from previous candidates (ie: funny name, doesn’t look like the presidents on the currency, etc.). The fact that what he says is true… and that he is really using it as humor to get us away from personal distractions so that issues such as the economy, the military mix-up, the profit gobbling oil companies and eight years of Republican debt buildup… has no serious meaning compared to the one McCain implies.
McCain started out saying he wa committed to a “Civil Campaign”. Instead, he is aiming for a Civil War.
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Mr. Schmidt specializes in the combat that dominates today’s political culture — the minute-by-minute, talking point-vs.-talking point battles that fill a 24-hour news cycle. His formula: a tightly controlled message delivered repeatedly and with almost military-like precision.
Steve Schmidt, left, now running Sen. John McCain's day-to-day campaign. (AP)At 37 years old, Mr. Schmidt, a 6-foot-tall, 225-pound New Jersey native, is already a veteran operative. He sharpened his skills running President Bush’s 2004 campaign war room, and managing California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s re-election campaign two years later.
After Mr. Bush’s re-election, he went to work for Vice President Cheney and helped steer the Supreme Court confirmations for John Roberts and Samuel Alito, finding ways to win tough news cycles. When some Senate Democrats accused Mr. Alito of being racist, his wife left the hearing room in tears. Mr. Schmidt turned the story into one about Democrats on the attack, rather than Mr. Alito’s past.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Who’s driving the McCain camp is Rove.
Now in a new Ad they’re mocking Obama as the Divine One
Silly.