LAFAYETTE HILL, Pa. - Is Republican candidate John McCain trying to turn that old-fashioned teaching tool, the visual aid, into a political art form? Or is he just having fun?
On Monday, a dispute between McCain and Democratic candidate Obama erupted over energy policy. Obama released a television ad claiming McCain was in the pocket of oil companies. McCain responded by saying Obama lacked experience and opposed nuclear power and oil drilling off the U.S. coast.
Then his team went a step farther.
“After take-off, we’ll be distributing copies of Obama’s energy policy,” McCain aide Mark Salter told reporters before the campaign plane taxied down a runway in Washington.
Once airborne, Salter returned carrying small metallic tire gauges inscribed with the words: “Obama’s energy plan.”
It was a dig at a statement Obama made in Missouri. He said inflating a car’s tires to the correct pressure could help maximize fuel efficiency.
It’s not the first time McCain’s campaign has employed visual aides to mock his opponent. During Obama’s high-profile trip to Europe and the Middle East, it issued phony press IDs to reporters labeled: “Left behind to cover America.”
If there’s a point to all this, perhaps McCain’s team is trying to say Obama takes himself too seriously and needs a little air taken out of his tires.
Is McCain’s campaign staff indulging in some good-natured ribbing and will voters appreciate the joke?
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Would like to see more statement of fact, less attitude. Would like to see more arguing of the question rather than the candidate. Some comments appear to do exactly what they speak against.
- Posted by justsayingABC said the twelve cent figure is incorrect.
- Posted by j smithConservation does nothing but slow the inevitable - yeah let’s overinflate our tires so we can keep sending oil money overseas for another 20 years. Kind of like saying “forget tractors; let’s figure out a way to feed our horses more economically”. The attitude should be pump it up, use it up, and move on to some other source. Anyway; aren’t the libs always the ones complaining about outsourcing?
- Posted by robtHumor is the best medicine. While I don’t stand behind all of what McCain says, I would rather have an American for President than a man that refuses to fly the flag on his plane, refuses say the Pledge of Alligence, and keeps the picture of a Cuban President in his office. While change is a good thing, changing to Obabma would be downright un-American and would end up hurting this Country more than helping it. Change? I would rather keep what little principles this country has left by voting for a man that has actually fought and suffered for my rights and believes in THIS country and not some left winged agenda. How anybody could actually even consider Obamba for President in beyond me. But then again, anyone can be President with enough money to back them I guess. God Bless America.
- Posted by Wild Bill