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New McCain TV Ad Blames Obama for High Gas Prices

5 by Timothy B. Hurst on July 21, 2008

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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Category: Energy, Environment, Politics | Tags: 2008 presdential election, barack obama, john mccain, offshore drilling, oil, oil prices

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

David
July 23, 2008 at 1:37 pm | Permalink | Reply
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.
Timothy B. Hurst
July 26, 2008 at 10:28 pm | Permalink | Reply
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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