McCain to attend debate, Web ad claims victory already
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WASHINGTON – Ah the Internet world, a place where things move very quickly — maybe too quickly in the political world.
Before Republican presidential hopeful John McCain announced he would attend the presidential
debate on Friday night in Mississippi, apparently an Internet advertisement slipped out onto the Wall Street Journal’s opinion page with it declaring he won the contest.
Here’s a screenshot of the Web advertisement as posted by the Washington Post in which it claims “McCain Wins Debate,” with him in the foreground and an American flag in the background.
McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said the ad posting was a mistake by the Wall Street Journal. Oops.
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Its the only way he can win the debate after the confused nattering his campaign has devolved into. Good God! Combine McCain’s “suspension” of the campaign, with Palin’s “suspension” of a coherent policy on anything, and its understandable that only pre-planned spin could win the day for this pair. I almost feel sorry for both of them – almost.
Simply unbelievable.
This man has no business running our country.
Pretty pathetic. McCain’s grandstand does nothing but confuses the process, and I’m sure he will try to claim that he showed leadership by offering his personal support in the hour of crisis. Anyone with half a brain read right through this and can also see that McCain looks like a “PONG” game in which he’s bouncing all over the place after his emphatic statement that the economy is fundamentally sound.
Thank God Senator Obama dropped the comment last night that “the economy is NOT fundamentally sound.”
Of course he has his spin ready to go. The sad thing is that it takes time to develop and produce these ads. Which means he planned to attend the debate the whole time even as he stated he would not if no bailout was complete.
It seems his campaign is spinning so fast they are dizzy and can’t keep their efforts moving forward in a straight line.
Does this mean we can just skip the election [which I suppose McCain has already won] and jump ahead 8 years [because I assume he's also won his second term in office] and finally begin to get America back on track? What the heck is this guy smoking??!! Maybe we’d better find out exactly what and how many medications Senator McCain is on. And quickly.
OOPS!!!
This maybe more than just a mistake, strange how McCain says he wont debate, than we have him ‘as the winner’ before the debate is due to start!!
” as posted by the Washington Post in which it claims “McCain Wins Debate,”
Don’t we have to have the debate first????
Maybe we should start being a little more aware of what is being announced and by who!
but he did win it, right?
Ah, the McCain campaign’s version of a “Mission Accomplished!” banner.
My response to McCain’s proclamation: http://is.gd/3bdU
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!
Ah, the McCain campaign’s version of a “Mission Accomplished!” banner.
- Posted by Whippy
Another example of the McCain run as the most incompetent schizophrenic presidential campaign in recent history.
how embarrassing. sure that ad wasn’t pulled from the Onion?
“McCain Wins Debate….(REALLY small print)…in his own mind”
I like John McCain like my Dad. My dad is a retired military man, has received a purple heart in the Vietnam War. He thinks that that War was the mother of all wars and without him, America would have been a communist Country. He thinks he and his fellows in the war saved the Nation. He likes to be admired day and nights including from my 3 years girl. He is so stubborn changes his meals, timing, menu and above all his cap for no good reasons. He has habit of changing our plans of daily routins without any reason, and we have to accept it. Many times he changed our vacation plans when we were ready to take a cab to the airport.But still I like my dad more than any one else. He will be 70 years on 4th November. But, if some one ask me wether my dad is good for our City Mayor, not only me and my family but my mother and my baby dog will also say in the middle of night NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Get It?
The false information first came out in one of Rupert’s Rag’s. Amazing coincidence.
Seems to happen quite often in the Rag’s that Rupert owns. Last thing America needs are wacko’s from outside our borders owning our media.
This was obviously a standard prepaid ad… which was scheduled to be released tomorrow, but was “accidentally” released by the WSJ this morning. Do you need more evidence of how the media is working overtime to undermine the GOP ticket?
The advertising office should issue a VERY PUBLIC apology!
Deja vu 1948 – Dewey Defeats Truman!
I just climbed out of the DeLorean: is Palin President yet? ?
LOL! Dr. Strangelove strikes again! I hope someone in Hollywood makes a movie of this Republican charade. Truth IS stranger than fiction.
Nice try, but the thing that McCain has been consistent about this whole campaign is his font. Optima. The ad is close, but no Optima.
Fake.
So, you think Rupert Murdock’s Wall Street Journal is a part of the media working to undermine the GOP ticket? Oh, they must be in cahoots with Fox. That darned liberal media is at it again.
Hey Andrew O, the Wall Street Journal (where this ad appeared) is owned by Rupert Murdoch who is a huge supporter of the GOP, so stop whining about the liberal media. The McCain campaign’s (Bush-like) disregard for reality coupled with their overall incompetence (also Bush-like) is becoming more obvious every day and this is just one more example. I think it’s hilarious.
mccain has his spin doctors on speed dial…you can’t win before hand…i can’t wait to watch obama show him how a president handles himself…with class…
I saw the same ad on
http://wonkette.com
so maybe this “mistake” is being splashed everywhere?
It was all for show. He obviously had every intention of attending the debate. This ad came out HOURS before he made his announcement that he had “decided” to debate. What a tool!!!
Such BLATANT dishonesty! OMG!
The ONLY way that McCain must feel he CAN win is to keep lying and hope people eat it up and stay ill-informed.
What a buffoon!
UNBELIEVABLE!!! Ready, FIRE, Aim!
John McCain was right to begin with and should stay in Washington and skip the debate, let the debate organizers go ahead without him as they threatened to and let Obama stay at the grand debate stage and do his lying and bs for the entire thing while John McCain stays back doing his job as a U.S. senate leader.
These two candidates are current sitting senators in the United States Congress! They are paid very well in that position and their job duties are not to hold presidential debates at all, especially when the country is going in the tank. And this economic crisis is a matter needing congressional action and they SHOULD be putting country and their legislative duties before political party debates and presidential candidacies.
Will he announce next week that he won the election?
One of the most powerful sermons you will ever watch. Minister James David Manning says Obama was born trash and is an emissary of Satan! (a must watch) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khuu-RhOB DU&feature=related
In this video, Pastor Jeremiah Wright makes anti-American statements and Obama is lying when he says he never heard Wright make these statements while attending his sermons and church. (another must watch) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72B3tUAqp o4
Interesting…His master of the Jedi Mind Tricks never ceases to not amaze me….
Good for McCain! … we already know he’s the winner … because he puts “country first”!!!
Just goes to prove that the McCain campaign has no plans for truth in their advertising. Lie now or later, they’ll still lie.
The Straight Talk Express is off the rails.
wall street journal claims a victory and republicans want to bailout wall street. niiiiiiiiiiice…
Mike/Mass said, “anyone with half a brain can see right thru it….” That’s the problem. On the road I live on I could combine the brains from all who are voting for McCain and wouldn’t have a whole one. My next door neighbor has a McCain sign in his front yard and couldn’t tell me three policy positions he has, couldn’t even tell me what the three branches of government are. That’s is what this country is up against.
Get real CJ and please see past the political hogwash. How stupid do McCain and his campaign advisors think we are (yikes…evidently some of us are that stupid) that we would believe the pathetic transparency of his claim to put country first. This economic crisis did not happen overnight and it is not going to be resolved in a day or a week, so please stop the political grandstanding it is just tired.
It’s a fake. The font is wrong. Close, but not Optima. Don’t be fooled by such a cheap trick. The McCain campaign had nothing to do with it. It’s a FAKE. Grow a brain, and don’t be so quick to assume everything you see or hear is true.
Uh, it’s not fake. The McCain campaign admitted the mistake, blamed it on the WSJ.
Amanda and NonAffiliated, please re-read the article. It clearly states that McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said the ad posting was a mistake by the Wall Street Journal. Ergo, it is NOT a fake.
Heh. MSNBC did it too.
http://tinyurl.com/5yjwwg
McCain-Obama debate… McCain talked about his experience in the Senate with spending, yet does not know the different BASIC contract types in use by the US Government. “Fixed Cost” contracts do not exist. That …statement… by McCain is illustrative of what he doesn’t know. And I’m not an Obama fan.
“McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said the ad posting was a mistake by the Wall Street”
I personally am for neither Mccain nor Obama, but if you die hard Obama supporters would l2 read, Mccain’s spokesman states it was a mistake.
McCain won that debate – for sure!
The fact is that he did win. You all are whining about some stupid ad because you are sore loosers.
Both camps pre-produced an ad., just like at the super bowl do you think they have a machine in the back that produces the hats and stuff as soon as the game is over. The stuff is done ahead and who ever won, it gets passed out. Same here. It being printed prematurely was not a mistake I am sure- the WSJ is in Oboma’s pocket.
Change you can trust, a slogan that could turn around McCain’s campaign?
Change you can trust contrasts beautifully with change you can believe in.
Everyone wants change, only with a team that we can trust to implement it.
If you’re in a tough spot, you want someone to come to help you that you can trust, not someone you believe may want to help you.
John McCain, polls show, is rated as highly qualified and highly trusted. This slogan, change you can trust, reinforces this message.
It can even be added on to John McCain’s current slogan. Country first, change you can trust. Or perhaps Change you can trust that puts Country first. Or how about Change you can trust that puts America first
It implies without directly saying it that the other side is perhaps a little less trustworthy.
It also reinforces the message that in a time we are facing battle with Al Qaeda worldwide and two conventional wars, John McCain is a commander in chief you can trust to lead us to victory.
There are 30 days left before Election Day. Sarah Palin’s debate performance was good, but it’s really up to John McCain to win.
CHANGE You Can TRUST
CHANGE You Can TRUST to put COUNTRY FIRST
CHANGE You Can TRUST to put AMERICA FIRST
CHANGE – TRUST
COUNTRY FIRST
John, are you listening???
http://strategicthought-charles77.blogsp ot.com/2008/10/change-you-can-trust-slog an-that-could.html