Worst. Ad. Ever.
Posted on July 21st, 2008 at 8:19 pm by Patrick KeeganCan you say “reeks of desperation”?
Wow that’s bad.
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Patrick is on a bit of a roll tonight, though I’m sure Shawn, Eddio and Whodat will chop him down to size.
I do have to agree with him on this one though. This commercial is really, really, *really* bad.
I don’t know what’s more pathetic– this ad or the prospect of Piyush “Bobby” Jindal giving John McCain a piggy back ride.
What is so bad about it? Obama and his ilk are at fault.
Now that’s just a plain old dumb statement Troy.
Blame the war.
Blame Bush.
Blame the speculators.
Blame OPEC, who won’t increase supply to match a soaring demand.
Maybe you can stretch it to blame some Democrats who have held off on coastal drilling, but then you also have to blame McCain, who didn’t come around on that issue until just recently as Shawn pointed out.
But seriously, Obama?
We can both agree on a lot of faults for Obama, but I cannot blame him for gas prices of all things.
What is so dumb about it?
Obama and his fellow Democrats are the reason we are in this jam.
Did they approve drilling in ANWR?
Did they approve drilling offshore?
Did they approve cutting the gas tax?
No they didn’t and in fact are trying to increase the gas tax by 10 cents a gallon.
Not the greatest ad ever, but St. Patty is exaggerating just a tad. (shocker!)
The line, “Don’t hope for more energy, vote for it,” is a home run.
This campaign angle is gold for McCain. The idea that you can’t “hope” your way out of problems is message that could stick with middle America that’s used to rolling up their sleeves after Church, not just going every Sunday and hoping for the best.
Jason,
How can you blame a JUNIOR Senator for the energy crisis when John McCain has been in office since the 80s and has a history of voting against offshore drilling UNTIL THIS YEAR?
Mr. Durham, where did I say I was blaming Obama and not McCain? Where did I place any blame? My comment was about political messaging.
Well, let’s see: what’s more false?
Claiming on a Presidential TV ad that you were the one who supported welfare reform back in Illinois when in fact the record shows you voted AGAINST it?
Or claiming that one man can up the price of gase to record highs by doing absolutely nothing except promising “hope” and “change”?
Hmmmm. Gotta go with the liar of the past record on that one.
The “change” I would be expecting from Mr. BO would be a decision to lift the ban on domestic drilling, ending a 3 decade shut down started by Jimmy Carter as a way for companies to avoid paying windfall profit taxes (gee-what goes around comes around) because they only applied them to domestic oil, not foreign oil. Forward thinking leadership would opt for a “change”, not just empty rhetoric while toeing the far-left line.
What a powerful man this Senator Obama is that he controls energy costs. Maybe when he becomes president, he can wave HIS magic wand and say “low gas”, something our current president has admitted he is unable to do.
This country has known for decades there would come a day when cheap oil would run out. Its ironic a 7th term senator in a position to have acted on the problem at some point over the past 26 years chooses to point fingers at the new kid rather than accept any amount of personal responsibility for his own inaction.
“Maybe when he becomes president, he can wave HIS magic wand and say “low gas”, something our current president has admitted he is unable to do.”
That’s what Obama has already done. He’s promised in his ads that with his plan for alternatives energies (costing something in the neighborhood of $150 billion), we’ll be gas free in 10 years running on everything from wind and solar to leftover french fry grease. No word on how that plan meshes with the reality of not having any workable technologies, much less ones that work on a scale the size of our country. But it sure sounds pretty…
Now THAT’S waving a magic wand…
You know, I think I get what McCain wanted to say (a vote for Obama will result in no new drilling, continued increase in gas costs), and I love the closing tag (don’t hope for energy, vote for it). But, to blame Obama for the current prices is just wrong (and stupid, IMHO).
Personally, I blame *All** politicians for causing the bottlenecks and not actually doing something about energy when we hit the crisis under Carter.
Well, wasn’t it Obama who said he was glad we’re experiencing high gas prices? Although he’s not the main problem, he certainly isn’t totally w/o blame. To think that these high prices will make us ‘change’ to alternative sources with a wave of his wand is completely foolish. I have yet to see transportation run on wind, solar, water, oxygen, apple juice…..that technology is FAR away. Somehow I just don’t see 747’s flying on wind power.
McCain isn’t guilt-free either, but at least he wants to do something about it now.
The tagline ‘Don’t hope for energy, vote for it’ is quite clever….
Maybe not Apple Juice…but many buses and cars run on hydrogen, which produce water as exhaust.
Apple juice, french fry grease, and burrito farts…that’s the alternative fuel Obama is trying to impose on us.
That was my point exactly. Glad you caught the sarcasm.
Got your back, sister!
This ad is speaking to me, honey. Barack has been full of “refuse” lately, and that’s putting it politely. Work on oil prices please, Mr. Elite, my family and I have places to go. Not a thought in that goof’s head and that’s how I really feel.
Just because Obama uses the word hope doesnt mean that his campaign and its platform is toothless, Jason. To hear conservatives say it, u would suspect Obama to tell people the tooth fairy will solve all problems. at no time has Obana eliminated the doctrine of hard work from his platform. Thats as disingenuous as liberals saying McCain loves bloodshed b/c he is prowar. That, Jason, is simple partisanism.
Weird. I thought the discussion was about political messaging.
But since you brought up partisanship, where do you think the GOP got their talking points on this whole touchy feely hope can change the world approach? Did you not pay attention to the race for the dem nomination? Even democrats were criticizing him for being long on hope and inspiration and short on plans.
And that message didn’t work then. Why repeat the same failed tactic? Come up with something better than hater-ade for hope. That’s the goofiest strategy I ever heard.
That’s been exactly our point. If Obama was truly spouting some kind of unique “third way”, that would be something different reflecting “hope” and “change”that might centerpiece the industry, innovation, and can-do spirit of America (see T Boone Pickens plan for energy for Exhibit A).
But Obama’s plans have teeth–it’s called classic liberal tax raising and gov’t subsidizing. That is also clearly partisan.
Obama’s “dental” plan = my hard work + his taking away my piece of the pie in the form of taxes & govt regs to give to those who have a smaller slice. I am going to have to “brace” myself for that kind of leadership.
I’d agree that Mr. BO does support my hard work - with him reaping the rewards of that instead of me.
Beyond the “tax tooth”, the rest does seem pollyannish (see comments above on magic wand).
Um, T. boone Pickens plan is hardly different from Al Gore’s and he is asking the government to spend A WHOLE LOT of money on said plan. Just thought I would drop that knowledge on what the Swift Boater wants America to do.
The difference between Al Gore’s plan and T. Boone Picken’s is that Pickens says by all means, drill, but don’t hang your hat on it alone. Al Gore says don’t drill, stop driving, stop flying, stop living life, use less energy (so there’s more for me, after all my carbon footprint is the largest in the US of any non-hollywood person).
T. Boone has spent part of his fortune investing in wind power and is actually building something usefull. The only wind power that comes from Al Gore shoots out of his mouth, largely powering only the media and special interest groups.
That seems to be the best approach to this mess. By all means pursue alt. energies through tax incentives and billion-dollar prizes for the companies to make these industries work on a country-wide scale. Let’s make it a matter of national security as well as economy.
But in the meantime, let’s drill here, drill now, pay less in the interim. We know where oil is going down the road - so let’s face it head on and deal with it. But let’s not be naive and stupid and force everyone to ride bikes and buses until we can get it figured out. That could take 10-20 years.