Newsweek: McCain Ad a Full Tank of Nonsense

[JimGinPA]

McCain ad says Obama's the guy to thank for emptying our wallets at the filling station. We say that's ridiculous.


(From FACTCHECK.ORG)

Summary
McCain's new ad accuses Obama of keeping gas prices high, all by himself. That's absurd, and McCain knows it – he has said repeatedly that our current problems were "30 years in the making."

The ad also tells us that gas prices are high because "some in Washington are still saying no to drilling in America." Not true. The federal government's estimate is that if the moratorium on offshore drilling were lifted today, it would be 2030 before we'd see a noticeable effect on supply and prices.


For the same reason, it's simply not true that drilling more now will "rescue our family budgets."

Analysis
Sen. John McCain, who's expected to receive the Republican presidential nomination in September, goes after Sen. Barack Obama, his Democratic counterpart, with a new ad that focuses on the cost of gas. According to McCain's campaign, the spot will air on national cable channels and in unspecified "key states."


More at link

http://www.newsweek.com/id/148164/page/1

[Cha]

1. mccain's so full of desperate

shit..he should get a special L for loser branded on his forehead.

Edit~ Thanks to Newsweek for printing this rebuttal to mccain's ad.

[JimGinPA]

3. Even The RW Talking Heads On M$M Were Laughing About It...

It's kind of pathetic.

[Cha]

7. Really! Wow..I guess they couldn't

quite lower themselves to that idiocy.

[depakid]

2. Unfortunately, all too many Americans will buy it...

and the Dems have a less than admirable record in countering this sort of simple minded demogoguery.

[anonymous171]

8. Usually I would agree with you, but this is just too stupid.

No one outside of freeper circles is going to buy this BS.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Somewhere in America, there are three people

dumb enough to fall for McNutso's reasoning. Just think what they're spending to reach those three people with their message.

[calimary]

5. They're actually questioning a mcsame ad? In public? In writing?

Must be having an off-day. :eyes:

[BigDDem]

6. That ad is sad, pathetic and makes no sense

[World Citizen]

9. ABC radio in NY

these slimey pundits mouth this crap all day long... rush among them... Occasionally someone calls to disagree and is abused mercilessly, never getting a chance to finish a sentence. One-sided ALL the time. Who established that policy? Who own WABC radio in NY?

[monmouth]

10. Yet it was that Moran guy of ABC (Rush calls it All Barack Channel)

who gave such a gushing and wonderfully pro Obama report about his visit to the Embassy with the workers, etc. I'm sooooo confused.