I'm sure this will be on his "fight the smears" website, if it isn't already.

One more reason not to vote for the man. Ad spam.

So all I got from this was that (1) McCain's attack ads are good and (2) they are so good that you're willing to give them a (free) prominent place on your site.  Is there a take home message for the clueless folks like me?

Once you're doing praising the effectiveness of McCain's ads, how about taking a few minutes to say something positive about our nominee, Jerome?

I have also seen "Snob" and "Nope" ads, which have no FEC byline...when you click on them you find they are selling posters, however they are out of stock of all posters and have been for some time - it seems to me this is just a clever way of getting around the FEC regulations by selling attack posters.

I was under an assumption that the moves made last week to consolidate the DNC and ship out an army meant that his campaign was getting ready to start, not that they had been actively working since Tuesday before last. Am I wrong? Jerome, you might know better than I would.

I think we should concede now--these ads are obviously uncounterable. Congrats President McCain!

Look at this bad thing that McCain is saying about Obama (and this one and this one and this one).  I'm pretty sure it'll hurt Obama if it sticks.  

The Obama campaign and/or the DNC have responded to the smears but their responses aren't worth reprinting (for whatever reason) so I won't.

Will you vote for Barack Obama in the fall?

[Yes]    [No]

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/b ehindthesmears

I have my own concerns about Senator Obama's posture of meeting with leaders of isolated regimes like Iran and Cuba without preconditions. I would let his reasons speak for himself.

Obama Said He'd Be Willing To Meet Without Precondition The Leaders Of Iran. Asked if he were still willing to meet without pre-condition during your first year with Fidel Castro, Kim Jung Il, Hugo Chavez, Obama said, "I do. Now, I did not say that I would be meeting with all of them. I said I'd be willing to. Obviously, there is a difference between pre-conditions and preparation. Pre-conditions, which was what the question was in that debate, means that we won't meet with people unless they've already agreed to the very things that we expect to be meeting with them about. And obviously, when we say to Iran, 'We won't meet with you until you've agreed to all the terms that we've laid out,'" from their perspective that's not a negotiation, that's not a meeting." [Meet the Press, 11/11/07]

http://factcheck.barackobama.com/factche ck/2008/05/29/obamas_consistent_position _on.php

However it is no wonder McCain/Republicans would like to do hit pieces like the above quoted adverts, given that last eight years we had seen the neo-con driven cowboy foreign policy.
 

Call me crazy but I think those ads make Obama look like a badass.

I mean, if he were looking sheepish or silly, yeah, great attack ad.

No, but they've got Mahmoud looking kind of upset or offended while Barack stares his anti-semitic ass down like he's about to pop him in the ad.

Add in the bonus factor of Gallup finding that most Americans agreeing with Obama's position and this is a great Obama ad. Thanks Senator McCain!

This is beyond sad.

This is a little off topic but you gotta love this quote from a Politico article up today on how Obama is running circles around John McCain online:

Obama's social network has nearly a million members. McCain's has a sign-up that reads "Benefits of joining Team McCain include:"--with nothing following.

The question at hand is 'what will Obama do about these ads?' but honestly, what do we care?  What we should be discussing is how we ourselves will deal with this.  Do these banners charge McCain for each click, or each view, or based simply on a timetable?  Is it possible to treat McCain's online ads as an opportunity to further damage his campaign finances?

How are McCain's ads a weakness for him?  

Cindy McCain on negative campaigning:

"That's not worth winning for. This is about being a leader and a person that can be a good example for our children and a good role model. There's many, many, many more things to this job than just being the president. You are an example. You have to -- you have to be better than that. You have to be."

Hey Jerome...your previous dire predictions about the Obama team's strategy have proven less than prescient.

Remember this?

The messaging that Gibbs and Axelrod put together for criticizing Clinton continues to stultify Obama. It's been a complete waste of opportunity to date. Obama is running a non-ideological and non-partisan campaign that entirely pushes the focus onto his personality for his being elected. While his point of criticism toward Clinton should be is a 50-state partisan message and the decline of the Democratic brand in the '90's, he's just not the messenger that has that silver bullet.

I will eat a shoe if the 'you've all been bad' and 'come together' mantra about electability wins a Democratic nomination.

These online ads to the right I've snagged make me wonder when Obama will respond with online ads attacking McCain:

Some people can't get enough of the old politics, apparently.

Ads like this and the ones Hillary ran in her final days only show which side knows it's losing.

But Obama does need to counterpunch and from we've seen so far, he will.

Not impressed.

When you personally saw the ad, did it make you want to push one of the buttons?  Which one?

I agree that the ad is eye-catching and does make me want to make a choice.  It makes me want to push the YES button...but I have a feeling that isn't the desired response.  My guess is if McCain's people are tracking the responses (and they should be) they'll conclude 'Man, we're in trouble.'

I'm going to watch for the ad so I can get a chance to make my voice heard too. ;)    

Sure, they're running ads showing Obama next to Amandidjejejababad, but they also have ads running on the same sites showing McCain snuggling up to Joe Lieberman. IMO, their self inflicted wounds there are more damaging than their attack ads.

If this is what the McCain campaign considers effective you'd better practice spelling this now, Jerome:

O-B-A-M-A    L-A-N-D-S-L-I-D-E

Personally, I'm net savvy enough to find "fake survey" ads more annoying than effective. I'll grant you they get the "Obama with a terrorist" meme out there but I think for most of the net-using public (of voting age) these ads are as annoying as "critical update required" ads.

you're right, fighting.