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New McCain TV Ad Blames Obama for High Gas Prices

5 by Timothy 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:

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

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Timothy Hurst is the editor at Ecopolitology and Earth & Industry as well as the executive editor of the LiveOAK Media Network. He writes mostly about energy and environmental politics, clean tech, infrastructure and green business. When not reading, writing, or talking about environmental politics to anyone who will listen, Tim likes to ski, hike with his aging lab and get dirty in his Colorado veggie garden. Find Tim on Google+.