Vacation is over

[womzilla]

And it is ON.

This is easily the nastiest ad I've ever seen a Democratic presidential candidate run*, and it's just barely starting to scrape the surface of the vast pool of sleeze that is "Crash" McCain.

* I was not yet alive the only time the "Daisy" ad actually ran.

And we need to see that final image over and over and over and over and over again for the next 80 days, maybe interspersed with Huggy Bear McCain.

Comments

[avram]

That's it?

I think the typical undecided voter doesn't even remember who Abramov or Reed are.

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

But they will sure as shit remember that OH MY GAWD! OBAMA IS A NEGRO!

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

I don't think they have to--the ad gives the context, makes with the frightening photo, and ends exactly where it has to: McCain is Bush Returned.

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

"One of Washington's biggest scandals" and "convicted felon" seems enough for me!

[bugsybanana.livejournal.com]

I didn't think it was that nasty, just pointed. I hope it's just the beginning.

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

Nasty no.
Honest Yes.
John McCain, he STILL hasn't learned anything from Keating!

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Someday I'd like to see this. But I left the computer running all night and in the morning all I could see was still a screen reading "Loading Player". Any idea why this is so sluggish?

[washa-way.livejournal.com]

Think it'll help that McCain apparently can't remember how many houses he owns?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12685.html

If his strategy is to paint Obama as out of touch with Regular Americans, I'm not sure this was the best move for JSM3.

[crowleycrow.livejournal.com]

The Daisy ad (I saw it at the time) did not strike me as nasty. It struck me as intensely heartfelt, whether in fact it was or was not, and whether in fact LBJ was more or less likely to fire the missles than Goldwater. Just tell me the last time you heard any politician anywhere quote W.H. Auden, regardless of whether he thought of doing it himself or not: "We must love one another or die." ("We must love one another or we must die" as LBJ had it.) He was so right at that moment that it transcended politics.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

I can see that. My reception of it has always been that it was very blunt and targeted directly at the worst impulses of Goldwater and his branch of the party. Internally, that has always seemed like a very nasty approach, even when completely honest and important. But that perception of nastiness is colored by a) years of being told that this was a nasty ad, and b) a generally leeching away of blunt forthrightness from the Democratic Party in the wake of Nixonland. By the time I started paying attention to politics, long gone were the days of Harry S Truman's "I only tell the truth and they think it's hell" or FDR's "I welcome their hatred". And we need more of it.