Obama and Campaign Ads

October 06, 2008

Obama anti-McCain ads

Key quote: "Barack Obama, after attacks on his character and past associations, is hitting back by highlighting John McCain's ties to the ``Keating Five'' savings-and-loan scandal that embroiled the Republican presidential nominee in the 1980s."

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September 17, 2008

Negative ads are defining this election

Key quote: "The Obama campaign responded with an attack on Senator McCain and his ties to lobbyists.
"The lobbyists running his low road campaign. The money - billions in tax breaks for oil and drug companies, but almost nothing for families like yours."

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September 15, 2008

Accusations of dishonesty

Key quote: "Barack Obama is taking the gloves off today and going after John McCain in a new ad called "Honor." The ad uses McCain’s own ads to argue that he is running a dishonest campaign."

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August 22, 2008

Obama's response to McCain's advertising

Key quote: "Democrat Barack Obama, enmeshed in a full-throttle negative ad war with Republican rival John McCain now, says that he expected it would come to this."

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Obama Mocks McCain Over Ignorance About Own Homes

John McCain may have created his own housing crisis. Hours after a report that the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting didn't know how many homes he and his multimillionaire wife own, Democratic rival Barack Obama launched a national TV ad and a series of campaign stops aimed at portraying McCain as wealthy and out of touch.

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August 20, 2008

Obama’s Ads in Key States Go on Attack

Key Quote: "Senator Barack Obama has started a sustained and hard-hitting advertising campaign against Senator John McCain in states that will be vital this fall, painting Mr. McCain in a series of commercials as disconnected from the economic struggles of the middle class."

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August 06, 2008

McCain Questions Obama's Ability to Help Families

Key quote: "Republican candidate John McCain has a new TV ad that questions whether his rival, Barack Obama, is ready to help American families."

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August 04, 2008

Bush Appears on Obama's Ad

Key quote: "With gas prices as one of the biggest flash points in the presidential race, Barack Obama on Monday launched an ad attacking John McCainfor contributions from “Big Oil” — and showing McCain with President Bush."

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Obama Campaign Releases New Ad

Key quote: "Barack Obama's campaign released a television ad Monday that calls for a windfall profits tax and accuses John McCain of being in the pocket of big oil.

The ad charges that major oil companies have donated $2 million to McCain's campaign and says that 'after one president in the pocket of big oil, we can't afford another.'"

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July 31, 2008

Obama Says McCain's Focus on Neg. Ads Shows He Has No New Ideas

Key quote: "Barack Obama is charging that rival John McCain doesn't have any new ideas and that's why the Arizona senator's campaign is focusing its energy on anti-Obama ads.

'You haven't heard a positive thing out of that campaign in a month. All they do is try to run me down,' Obama said while campaigning Wednesday in Union, Missouri."

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