New McCain TV Ad Blames Obama for High Gas Prices

The latest John McCain ad is so full of flagrant logical gaps and bad rhetoric it makes me cringe. And since I figured you’d want to cringe too, I’ve included it for your perusal.

Perhaps the most cringeworthy portion of the advertisement is when the commercial’s narrator asks, “Who can you thank for rising prices at the pump?”, while a picture of Barack Obama flashes on the screen and the familiar “Obama-Obama-Obama” chants fill the background audio. Running a close second in cringeworthiness is the second portion of the ad, where we are apparently supposed to see the light that is candidate McCain…

…but I don’t want to spoil the whole thing for you. Watch it for yourself:

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This post was written by: Timothy B. Hurst

Tim Hurst is the founder/editor of ecopolitology and executive editor of LiveOAK Media. Tim mostly covers energy and environmental politics, renewable energy and green business; but seems to write more about music festivals in the summer for some reason. When not reading, writing, thinking, or talking about environmental politics to anyone who will listen, Tim likes to ski, hike with his aging labrador, and toil in his Colorado vegetable garden. He's on twitter at @ecopolitologist.

5 Responses to “New McCain TV Ad Blames Obama for High Gas Prices”

David says:

July 23, 2008 at 1:37 pm

Saw it last night, I actually watched it 3 times on the DVR – unbelievable that McCain can get away with this crap and that a single soul would vote for this guy.

Maybe Obama should come out with an ad blaming McCain for global warming.

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Timothy B. Hurst says:

July 26, 2008 at 10:28 pm

David-

Yeah, I just don’t see the connection. I just came across a pretty good FactCheck.org debunking of that ad if you’re interested::

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/a_full_tank_of_nonsense.html

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