I just got an email from the Obama campaign warning me about John McCain taking “the low road” of politics;<\/p>\n
Friend —<\/p>\n
As we face the fundraising deadline at midnight tonight, I want you to know what we are up against.<\/p>\n
Less than 24 hours ago, the McCain campaign launched the latest and lowest in a series of misleading attack ads.<\/p>\n
This Karl Rove-style ploy misleads people about Barack’s energy plan and even mocks his ability to inspire voters and bring Americans back into the political process.<\/p>\n
Watchdogs in the media are calling McCain’s accusations “bogus,” “desperate,” “wrong,” “misleading,” “ugly,” “offensive,” “reckless,” and “a nasty turn into the gutter.”<\/p>\n
Some of McCain’s own supporters agree. One senior Republican strategist quoted by the Washington Post called the latest ad a “wild swing at Obama” that reflects his campaign’s “increasing bitterness” and the lack of “any coherent strategy to elect McCain.”<\/p>\n
Even John Weaver, a strategist who worked for McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000 and on his current campaign last year, called the ad “childish,” adding that this negative strategy “diminishes John McCain” and “needs to stop.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The ad? This one;<\/p>\n
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I thought it was pretty tame, considering what McCain could have said about the Fluff Master. But Obama thinks I should send him some money so he can run this ad;<\/p>\n
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\n\u00a0With the election less than 100 days away, media pundits and Washington insiders will be watching our fundraising numbers more closely than ever.<\/p>\n
In the face of these new attacks, you can help demonstrate that a movement funded by grassroots supporters giving only what they can afford is ready to take on the Republican fundraising machine and its onslaught of negativity.<\/p>\n
Your support will also give this campaign a crucial boost in momentum as we build our organization to compete in all 50 states.<\/p>\n
There are only hours left to make an impact in July.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, what McCain ran was an attack ad. Which part is untrue? Well, none of it, actually. A statement of facts is not an attack. Obama’s ad is an attack ad, though. It attacks common sense by talking about “same old politics” and then lays out Obama’s agenda that’s the same old Democrat rhetoric without real solutions. Same old politics indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"