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Obama Hits Back - Campaign puts up McLobbyist.com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Obama campaign has put out this website Mclobbyist.com. Here comes the artillery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The top of page reads
The McCain SevenJohn McCain has had at least 177
lobbyists running his campaign and raising money for him. The McCain
Seven—all lobbyists—control the campaign filling roles from senior
foreign policy advisor and finance co-chair all the way up to head of
command, campaign manager. The McCain Seven make sure special interests
come first.
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Nice site. No punches being pulled there.
September 13, 2008 3:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, indeed. Clean, clear, effective. Let's get it moving around the country. Next up: McLiar.com and McSame.com.
September 13, 2008 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Notice how "The McCain Seven" kinda reminds you of "The Keating 5"? I sure hope they roll out a Keating 5 commercial too.
September 13, 2008 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well done. I hope it gets some MSM "play."
September 13, 2008 4:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love that phrase "the McCain seven" it's sounds elite, as in an elite group of lobbyists.
September 13, 2008 5:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ohhhh! I like it!
September 13, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
The mcShame campaign:
Bought and paid for by lobbyists.
Liars.
Cryers (of wolf).
That's the campaign! And nothing more... Emperor has no clothes. Especially Lady MacDeath, purveyor of ariel wolf hunting and polar bear dying.
September 13, 2008 7:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is clearly missing McCain's plan to tax employer paid health insurance premiums as income. (can you imagine?)
Obama needs to stick to the kitchen table. People are self centered - they only care about the parts that will affect them.
September 13, 2008 8:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think it will easily segue into dinner table tactics.
September 13, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is all great except that half of all Americans probably don't even know what "lobbyists" do.
And how's this for radical: as awesome as affordable college for all is, I think he'd do well to remove the talking point from his stumping, because he's alienating (aka pissing off) all those people who go straight from high school to the farm or the factory and think college is for pansies.
McCain's going to Nascar races and it's working.
I want you to win so get REAL Barack!
September 13, 2008 11:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
A recent poll asked American voters what they believe that a lobbyists does.
- 49%: "Don't know"
- 27%: "Welcome guests in hotel lobbies"
- 10%: "Throw wild parties for congresspeople"
- 7%: "Steal money from the Treasury"
- 4%: "Write know-it-all generalizations about Americans"
- 2% "Undecided"
- 1%: "All of the above"
A follow-up question asked respondents what college is for.
- 69%: "Getting laid"
- 16%: "Getting a job"
- 7%: "Getting an education"
- 5%: "Pansies"
- 2%: "Undecided"
- 1%: "All of the above"
September 14, 2008 10:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ummm... anyone else see just a generic parking website here?
Are you all trolls or is something seriously wrong here?
September 14, 2008 12:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
I see what you're saying...no everyone's not a troll, it was definitely there earlier I made a post about it too...odd!
September 14, 2008 12:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think the link here & on HuffPo might be wrong. I did a google search & found this:
http://www.johnmccainrecord.com/mclobbyist/
So I'm assuming this site will be expanded to include more of the John McCain record.
The site states it's paid for by Obama for America, so it's legit.
September 14, 2008 1:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, there it is!
But how did everyone else above get there if the link posted right in the post was wrong? Nobody mentioned it!
Seems like a mystery for the Hardly Boys!
September 14, 2008 1:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Hardly boys! Two Young Whippersnappers!
Sounds like McCain talking about Obama and Biden.
September 14, 2008 2:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Should they set up a MCLIAR.com website to record McLiar's LIES?
September 14, 2008 2:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe McLIAR.com is better. It highlights the truth a little more.
September 14, 2008 2:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is great. Let's get it rolling out there. The best thing...it's only just the beginning. I think too many of us have forgotten that Obama is the guy that beat the Clinton political machine. He's going to surprise everyone over the next few weeks - again!
September 14, 2008 4:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well the website has a number errors. Not a good roolout. Unobama-like.
September 14, 2008 5:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Lets get real.
Like Iraq, there is no victory in this election.
Both parties are corrupt and business as usual.
Lobbyists will continue to rule Washington and bankrupt your children's lives.
Much ado about nothing.
September 14, 2008 12:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hell yeah!! Love that they riff on Keating 5.
Now we're talkin'... And now they need to keep pushing this until it is widely disseminated on the MSM. Push the issue, cuz this website is a good start.
September 14, 2008 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Love it.
Simple, clear -- with fight in 'em. That's what American typical voters like.
Also, I too would like to see McLiar.com and McSame.com.
(And make some bumperstickers for the non-computer literate elderly voters... like my mom. And McSame.)
September 14, 2008 12:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
OH yeah --
send the McLobbyist link to ten friend and relatives -- including your Republican aunt.
September 14, 2008 1:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh my god you people are so gonna loose this thing big time .... All the morons that McPalin appeal to are not in the slightest danger of reading any fucking web page and changing their mind that grampa is smart and Sarah is pretty. You people live in a web bubble and do not even remotely realize how out of touch with average voters your O bomb has become. WAKE UP! Smell the right wing coffee ...... poor stupid American John and Jane are getting screwed again and the republic-cons are laughing all the way to the bank .... again ....
September 14, 2008 2:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
With $77 million cash on hand, can they please put up more ads like this - everywhere!
Did anyone see the Slate video this morning:
"How to Call McCain Old Without Saying 'Old':
http://www.slate.com/
How about some ads on "judgment"? And - how "puzzled" mcsenile looks.
September 14, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
lisast: THANK YOU for that clip. John Kerry set the framework that will work. Outdated. Outdated. Outdated. That's the word I want to see a lot. More ads needed. (Also want to hear the words: "dangerous, unstable, erratic, angry, condescending & cocky, etc...")
September 14, 2008 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink