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Get Tough!!! Get Nasty!!! Don't Let McCain Set The Agenda

By James from Watertown, MA - Sep 14th, 2008 at 2:50 pm EDT

I would like to see a political ad that says:

If you want your bank to fail

If you want Wall Street to collapse

If you want higher gas prices

If you want your kid killed in Iraq

If you want your privacy invaded

If you want unwanted people to listen to your phone calls

If you want your government mismanaged

If you want dishonest government officials

If you want incompetent cronies to run the government

Then Vote For John McCain

The Democrats have to start slashing back. You guys are too tame!!!!

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Help Me Clear the Obama & Sex-Ed to Kindergarteners Issue

By Michelle - Sep 11th, 2008 at 9:50 am EDT

Through this campaign ad, released by McCain, McCain would like you to believe that Obama has as he says, "only one accomplishment" and that is, in McCain's words, Obama's (gasp!) "legislation to teach comprehensive sex-education to kindergarteners." "

Learning about sex before learning to read?" the ad says. "Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family." The Truth -- Not McCain's Lies McCain, must again, think the American people are stupid, creating a campaign ad built on nothing but shameful lies. Let's run through the facts:

As a state senator in Illinois, Obama voted for the sex education bill in committee in 2003, but he was not a sponsor.
The legislation never became law.
The legislation was written to protect young children from sexual predators in an age-appropriate manner, teaching kids the difference between "good touch" and "bad touch," for example.
The legislation would have allowed parents to pull their children from the sex-education classes if they so wished.

Why Obama Supported The Legislation in 2003

Rather than attacking Obama, McCain should be praising Obama for taking a stand to protect America's children. The statistics show that one out of every three to four girls has been sexually assaulted by the age of 18 and one boy out of every six will be abused by the age of 18. With over 491,720 registered sex offenders in the United States (with 80,000 to 100,000 of them currently missing) and the standard pedophile committing 117 sexual crimes in their lifetime, we should be thankful that there is someone out there like Obama that is able to recognize the importance of making children aware enough to recognize if they are being sexually abused. Clearly, McCain left all of this information out of the ad; you can't exactly vilify Obama when he is out to help parents that choose for thier kids to learn how to identify and protect themselves from possible sexual predators, can you?

Why Did McCain Make This Ad?

McCain has said that the Obama campaign is desperate, but the McCain campaign released this baseless ad just hours after Obama gave a speech on education and offered proposals that would have appealed to Republicans. Obama promised to double funding for charter schools, pay teachers based on performance and replace those who aren't up to the job -- guess that was too much for McCain to handle, so he had to make up this ad.

How You Can Help

McCain's ad will air in parts of Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri and Wisconsin, as well as on the Discovery channel -- please send this blog entry to everyone possible to that we can disarm McCain's despicable ad before it gains any traction. Let's show McCain and Palin that community organizers can work together to bring to light the package of lies they keep dropping at the American people's feet.

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Fight McCain with McCain

By Docellie - Aug 25th, 2008 at 7:05 pm EDT

Saw the most vapid and untrue 30 second spot that said Barack is for higher taxes, job loss, and illegal immigration while McCain is for progress and the environment. It occurred to me that the best response would be to film the same spot frame for frame with the candidates' names and pictures reversed. It might help people start to question whether seeing a political claim on TV makes it true.

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The Public v. McCain

By Dale from Lansing, MI - Aug 13th, 2008 at 7:28 pm EDT

Although I enjoyed Barack Obama's recent web ad "Embrace" (the one with lots of hugging between Bush and McCain), I still think the campaign needs to be a little harsher. The idea of a continuation of Bush policies into a third term should be scary, not playful. Furthermore, I think it's important to emphasize that McCain has been "doubling down" on Bush's policies at the same time the rest of the nation (and world) has been abandoning them.

I created the following ad today to illustrate the kind of concept I'd like to see Obama's team try:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBfngOsvmA0 Read More »

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Memories....as the straight talk express drives away...

By Coonsey - Aug 7th, 2008 at 9:45 am EDT

I was reminded of a Saturday Night Live sketch that Senator John McCain did back in 2002 last night on The Verdict with Dan Abrams. McCain tried to start a singing career.

He wasn’t bad to be honest but the one song he partially sang gave me the idea of great idea for a campaign ad.

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Campaign Ad 2???

By Ronald from Cheyenne, WY - Aug 2nd, 2008 at 9:30 pm EDT

Please refer this to friends

Note: Sen obama would never stoop to the level of Sen McCain campaign ads. However, I had a funny thought that an independent film maker (third party) would do the following below.

Starring Tim Conway as John McCain

Starring Jim Carey or a famous TV prsonaility playing Jay Leno

The scene is a game show or something like Jay Leno jaywalk allstars. Or are you smarter than a fifth grader.

Note: Sen McCain is known to make mistakes about the geography and the different fractions of the Iraqi government.

Game show host: What countries Borders Iraq?

Tim Conway: France

Game show host: That is wrong Sen Mccain the correct answers is.......

Game show host: Which of the following is the King of Jordan: Jordan Sparks, Abdallah the second or Michael Jordan?

Tim Conway: Oh that's easy...Michael Jordan!

Game show host: I am sorry, that is incorrect...of the two which one is the King of Jordan?

Tim Conway: Okay Jordan Sparks

Game show host: that is wrong, the correct answer is King Abdallah the second.

Tim Conway: Oh Karrem Abdull Jabar, I thought he was a basketball player.....

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There can be a series of these ads that hit the web. Sen Obama has a lot of Hollywood support so it should be easy to find good actors.

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Would this make a good ad?

By Duane Kuehn - Jun 16th, 2008 at 8:04 am EDT

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Hi All,
     The following is of me, not of Barack Obama nor his campaign. (disclaimer? :)
     Here is a rough draft of a television ad that I think would be helpful to Barack’s campaign.
     I believe it would be very good because; that which some have called a “movement” which is Barack Obama’s campaign, is all because of one factor. Ninety percent of persons in this country believe that “Open Government” (often termed ‘transparency in government’) is a very important issue.
     Over 70% of the people in this country now distrust the government to some degree.
     Almost 80% of the people in this country believe that the government is illegal spying upon citizens of this country.
     Hence, Barack Obama stood up and said, “Change” and he defined that “Change” as opening the activities of the Government to the People of this country.
     Therein, I believe, lay his strength of identification with the people. I think the following ad would address this issue quite well. All comments are welcome.

                                                       FADE IN
VIEW:     A doorknob fills screen.

CAMERA PANS OUT WITH VOICE OVER:
VIEW:     Doorknob to: doorknob with padlock beneath to: full double-doors locked with padlock to: U.S. Capitol building to: crowd of people waiting outside the building.

VOICEOVER:
Dialogue: “Did you ever get the feeling that your government is working from behind closed doors? That you have been locked-out and have no control of the decisions made in your behalf? From local Board of Education meetings to local Council meetings, from State Government legislation to Federal Government legislation, things being decided without your input and often not in your best interest. In meetings held behind closed, locked doors attended by agenda’s of greed and power.

Did you ever feel like there is nothing you can do about the situation?

Well, now you can do something. Barack Obama will open those doors for you, a Change in the way YOUR Government operates from behind those closed doors.

     *This message has not been approved by John McCain or the majority of Special Interest Lobbyists.
                                                    FADE OUT

     That is it folks, that is all I wrote. LOL I keep playing with this idea and coming up with new, more involved scenarios but this is the brunt of it. I suppose there is much to say in keeping things simple.
Loveya,
Duane Kuehn

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An Idea for an Ad

By Chris - May 22nd, 2008 at 3:33 pm EDT

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You know those Mac vs. PC ads that Apple runs? I think our campaign should put out a spoof of that ad wherein Obama plays the Mac guy and an actor portraying McCain plays the PC guy. I think this could really work:

OBAMA: Hello, I'm Barack Obama!

McCAIN (trembling, scratching head): And I'm John McCain.

OBAMA: You look a little confused...

McCAIN: Well, I keep changing my positions so often that I can't keep track of them anymore...

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Bitter is Better than No Truth At All

By Nickie - Apr 16th, 2008 at 1:46 am EDT

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I had to laugh at Hillary's new ad in PA about Barack's Bitter comments. Somehow we need to turn this into a positive message. So far I've read a million comments from people on blogs and here about how bitter we are and why Obama is right. American's are discontented. The polls show our unhappiness level somewhere in the 70+ percentage points. I mean that is a lot of bitter people.

Im bitter because of X

I have hope because of Y

I don't know...there's a political ad in here that rocks. Somehow.

Maybe some creative genious can take the idea and work it into something dynamic. But Hillary getting a few of those 20+/1 happy supporters to say they were offended at Baracks comments was lame. I think we can do one better. About being bitter and not going to take it anymore. Ideas?

Isn't Move on.org doing some kind of competition for an ad?

Oh and I did see Barack's ad in response but it lacked something. At least, I think I saw something. I watch so much Obama stuff sometimes it all bleeds together.

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No Minorities in Hillary's "Middle Class"?

By Cindy - Mar 25th, 2008 at 1:29 pm EDT

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Camp Clinton released her first PA ad. Other than a single token black shown for a fraction of a second, there were no minorities visible in the middle class that she claimed to be fighting so hard for. Instead, it was white guys in the factory, older white guys and women, and the obligatory fawning over a baby (also white), etc.

Is Pennslyvania really that lily white? I'm from New York, and that sort of thing would never fly around here.

http://thepage.time.com/

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