Still waiting...
Posted on 08/07/2008 3:55:05 PM PDT by Anti-Hillary
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry blasted presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain for using video clips of Democrats’ past praise of McCain in a web-only campaign commercial released Thursday morning.
Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, called the Arizona senator “unrecognizable” and said he had “changed overnight.”
In painting McCain as a maverick, the ad features a series of Democrats — Kerry, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, Sen. Russell Feingold and Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. — talking up the Republican nominee as a bipartisan deal-maker and all-around good guy.
Daschle: “He can work with Democrats on key issues.”
Biden: “I would be honored to run with or against John McCain .”
Kerry: “He is a courageous, patriotic American who stands up for what he believes.”
Dean: “Nobody has to guess at what he’s thinking,”
Feingold: “I love John McCain . He’s a great guy.”
Then the ad shows Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama testifying before a Senate committee that the “right approach” to climate change legislation is one that begins with a plan offered by McCain and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman , I-Conn.
It closes with Obama’s primary rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton , D-N.Y., saying “I know that Sen. McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House, and Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002” — a reference to the speech Obama delivered against the Iraq war when he was a state senator in Illinois.
Kerry, who reportedly thought about asking McCain to join his ticket in 2004, was the first Democrat to unload on McCain, likening the ad to one the Republican has run comparing Obama’s celebrity to the fame of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.
“The McCain campaign is determined to give their Paris Hilton ad a run for its money in the desperation department, and they’ve succeeded only in shining a light on the fact that the John McCain of today is unrecognizable from the John McCain of just a couple years ago,” Kerry said in a statement released by his office. “The real question is what happened to the John McCain we used to know and why he changed overnight into a George Bush nominee with a Karl Rove campaign.”
While most of the video clips in the ad are taken from before the presidential election season, Obama’s comments were made less than two weeks before his official campaign kickoff and Clinton’s were from March of this year.
Kerry Rips Former Pal McCain for Ad Citing Praise from Dems Update:
Howard Dean and Joe Biden have responded to the McCain ad since this story was first posted.
Biden said “The John McCain of 2008 is not the maverick of 2000. On the most urgent national security challenges we face -- Iraq, Iran and al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- there is no daylight between [President] George Bush and John McCain ,” Biden said in a statement released from his Senate office. “He has embraced President Bush’s failed policies and will continue them. It’s unfortunate he’s changed so much in just eight years.”
The Biden clip in the McCain ad was from 2005.
Dean hit similar points in his statement.
“ John McCain a maverick? The John McCain of 2000 wouldn’t even consider voting for the John McCain of 2008,” Dean said. “ John McCain has changed: he’s taken the low road, leveling false, negative and misleading attacks against Barack Obama . John McCain is no more a maverick within the Republican Party than Dick Cheney is. He’s just more of the same.”
Howard Dean and Joe Biden have responded to the McCain ad since this story was first posted.
Biden said “The John McCain of 2008 is not the maverick of 2000. On the most urgent national security challenges we face -- Iraq, Iran and al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- there is no daylight between [President] George Bush and John McCain ,” Biden said in a statement released from his Senate office. “He has embraced President Bush’s failed policies and will continue them. It’s unfortunate he’s changed so much in just eight years.”
The Biden clip in the McCain ad was from 2005.
Dean hit similar points in his statement.
“ John McCain a maverick? The John McCain of 2000 wouldn’t even consider voting for the John McCain of 2008,” Dean said. “ John McCain has changed: he’s taken the low road, leveling false, negative and misleading attacks against Barack Obama . John McCain is no more a maverick within the Republican Party than Dick Cheney is. He’s just more of the same.”
And while I know that some of the comments from the Dims in this ad may send some of here into a tizzy, I think the ad is great. Especially love Cankles at the end!
Kerry: “I was for John McCain before I was against him.”
Awesome!!!!! You win quote of the day!!!
Jon Carry, backstabber par excellence.
Kerry, you’re not even relevant anymore. We haven’t seen you since 2004.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Yeah, I wish he would go get “stuck in Irak”.
This is all good for us..the more McCain sees who his real friends are..the more to the right he will slide...
Jon Carry, a far-left appeasenik who received undue support from John McCain in 2004 and many other times in the past, has rewarded his “friend” with vicious attacks in 2008.
Some friend you had there, Senator McCain. Can you see now that Jon Carry is a treasonous weasel?
Kerry: “This is not the John McCain I once knew...”
Kerry flip-flops on McCain. Shocking.
Still waiting...
LOL.
Wonder if McCain really thought the marxist scum that call themselves democrats really liked him?
Hey, John Kerry:
Remember the "Leave Britney Alone" dude? He's back, rooting for Obambi this time.
Somebody needs to turn that into a vid response, too!
Each ad McCain does these days incites howls of protest from the demwits, I cannot think of a better way to measure their effectiveness.
I don’t remember any howls of protest from the dems when the NAACP ran probably the worst and most negative political ad of all time by implying that Bush was somehow responsible for the dragging death of an African American in Texas. They are so shallow and transparent, but then what else is new?
Agreed, but I, personally, would not be real proud of the accolades directed at me by such a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Ahhhh, the best quote of the day!
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