McCain’s Negative Ads: Someone Has to Say It, But It Hurts Our Feelings!

North Star Writers Group ^ | October 20, 2008 | Nathaniel Shockey

[Invisigoth]

Senator Obama, this is truly a good day for America. Too often the achievements of our opponents go unnoticed. So I wanted to stop and say, congratulations. How perfect that your nomination would come on this historic day. Tomorrow, we'll be back at it. But tonight Senator, job well done.

I'm John McCain and I approved this message.

“100 percent of John McCain’s ads have been attack ads.” – Barack Obama

This point is relatively petty, and quite frankly, it isn’t shocking that Obama would say something untrue. But to suggest that McCain’s advertising has been generally negative is probably fair.

There are a two points that need to be made about this.

1. The reason McCain spends so much time and money to point out Obama’s flaws is because the mainstream media, outside of Fox News, aren’t doing it for him. Compare this to their handling of McCain and Sarah Palin. Of course, conservative columnists and radio talk show hosts are screaming at the top of their lungs that Obama is covered in so many red flags that he actually looks like he’s representing Communist China. But then, their primary audience is made up of conservatives. So how can the McCain camp reach the whole spectrum of voters without negative ads?

[Vaquero]

[Robert DeLong]

I thought at first it was going to be a hit piece, but it wasn’t. I hope people will take his advice offered at the end, however, I do not have much hope for that right now.