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Monday, September 29, 2008 12:00 AM

Bungee jumpers for McCain

New ad uses bailout anxiety to push anti-Obama message.

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Monday, September 29, 2008 08:04 AM

I don't get it...

I mean, if you're complaining about bailouts and things, shouldn't you just jump without the bungee cord. After all, the bungee cord is the only thing keeping you (being the economy) from going splat?

Maybe I just haven't had my morning coffee yet, but I'm confused by this one.

Monday, September 29, 2008 08:04 AM

blame

Isn't it funny how the same conservatives who argued for deregulation are now using the deregulated economy fiasco to complain about somebody who, we’re told, has no policy accomplishments and yet somehow is still to blame for the financial mess we’re in?

I guess "It's all Clinton's fault" doesn't work anymore.

Monday, September 29, 2008 08:21 AM

It would make sense with a few adjustments

I don't know, if the guy jumping off the bridge was complaining about big government and regulations, jumped off the bridge, and was stopped by a bungee cord labeled "taxpayers" then it would make sense.

I agree, it doesn't make sense that the guy complaining about the bailout was the one saved since that would be the taxpayers wouldn't it? If that's the case then it's not being saved by the bailout-bungee-cord that's important. It'd be the taxpayer being pushed off the bridge by the banks that would be the real message; he didn't jump - he was pushed.

Monday, September 29, 2008 08:39 AM

Never undermisestimate the power of retards

Remember cats and kittens; George Bush was never the problem. The stupid superstitious incurious retarded zealots who voted him in are the problem. And there's no shortage of those short bus failtards.

Monday, September 29, 2008 08:41 AM

The message is clear

Step out of the car NOW or I'll shoot you in the head. Hand over your keys. Leave the baby in the back seat.

Monday, September 29, 2008 08:56 AM

STRANGE COMMERCIAL

I saw this commercial this AM and didn't have a clue what it was about. When the small print came up on the screen, I read what I could and then guessed it was a pro McCain message.

Pretty poor ad.

Monday, September 29, 2008 09:28 AM

McCain & house Repubs

are now for the disaster "bailout" bill themselves, at least according to Putnam, the House Conservative who has been the face of the opposition.

Who does this ad benefit?

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 02:10 PM

Get real

McCain was warning about Fannie & Freddie while Obama was pocketing their money and suing them for not making riskier & risker loans.

No wonder he won't go to Washington to lead. He's never taken his Senate duties seriously; why start now?

Harry Reid: "No one knows what to do!"

Barack Obama: "Call me if you need me. (And please, don't need me)."

Obama is an "avatar of reconciliation".

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