And in case anyone has forgotten, McCain has publicly embraced the team that smeared him up and down in the 2000 race. Bush and his minions lied and innuendoed about McCain in South Carolina and elsewhere to win the nomination.

Maybe it was big of McCain to forget, if not forgive Bush, but it smacks of political expediency. Go ahead, John, wrap yourself in Bush's "legacy." See how far it gets you!

Does the DNC actually buy time for this "ad"? Or do they just send it to their media buddies such as Frank James, so Frank and company can give their fellow Democrats a million dollars worth of free air time?

"This Valentine's Day, Americans should ask themselves if they really want to give their loved ones a president who is willing to abandon his principles just to win an election,"

Instead, vote for a democrat who has no principles to begin with!

4 more years of the Bush/McCain Party. America needs it! The drive-by media will try their darndest to see that it doesn't happen though.

Luvin', touchin', squeezin', each ooooother.

Polls. They're up and then they're down. Nah, nah, nah, nah,...

(With apologies to Journey.)

Oh to have been in the editing suite when this ad was put together.

what failed policy? If president bush hadn't done anything no mistakes would have been made.He has kept the terrorist activity on our soil at safe threshholds.

I love this disgusting image - there's something icononic and definitive about it.

Perfect material to use against the dishonest, rather unbalanced, John McCain.

Democrats need to hammer home the Bush/McCain war and the Bush/McCain economy. Don't back down!

Do either of them get a "tingling feeling going up my leg" like Chris Matthews does whenever he hears Obama speak?

Somebody's unbalanced alright and it's not just the idiot from Canada on this board.

Barry and chris, sittin' in a tree:

"I have to tell you, you know, it's part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama's speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often." -Chris Matthews, during potomac primaries coverage.

This is a cute ad. It also clearly makes the case for three legs of the Democratic platform i.e., Raise taxes, Amnesty for illegals, and abandon our troops in Iraq. Wonderful!

Looks like a good Huckabee ad to me!

For a youtube video that Frank James won't give free air time to, see this video on how Obama's buddies at the "People's Republic of Berkeley" hate United States Marines. And how Obama and the Democrats refuse to condemn this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b73_hKWiSmc

It's put out by the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.

It also clearly makes the case for three legs of the Democratic platform i.e., Raise taxes, Amnesty for illegals, and abandon our troops in Iraq. Wonderful!

Posted by: Newt from Littleton | February 14, 2008 9:58 AM

1) Raise taxes? Taxes have never been lowered during time of war. Restoring the income tax to previous levels is not raising taxes, its common sense. It's called shared sacrifice.

2) Amensty to illegals? John McCain authored the bill and he's your party's nominee so this is an argument you won't win.

3) Abandon troops in Iraq? Funding has not been cut off once, NOT ONCE. Democrats want troops home. Democrats don't want to leave American troops in Iraq, Republicans do!

Actually the Dems won't raise taxes, they'll just give all America some much needed help. Amnesty will happen sooner or later. And our troops will not be abandoned , because they won't be in Iraq.

john,

You said it best.

Good for you.

Is the "third leg" of the democratic platform Chris Matthews after listening to Obama?

Oh, snap! C'mon Swamp, it's valentine's day, you have to have some fun with this. There's even youtube video of Brian Matthews mocking him for saying it. ESPECIALLY if you're going to run this hit piece from the DNC.

Jeff,

Mediate XXXOOOXXX between the drug addled gasbag & the rest of the right-wing whackadoo McCain haters & you'll feel better when you lose next fall.

No, THANK YOU!

Thanks John for helping me see the light. I must admit that I am still having difficulty with your concept of "shared sacrifice," though. Living on my life's savings and a fixed income at age 70 I struggle to keep my home even with the Bush level taxes. I guess I just don't have enough common sense to go live on the streets so the "illegals" can have the same benefits I spent my lifetime earning. Sorry!
P.S. I have been sober since 1973; served my country for 32 years; went where I was asked and never complained. I considered my service as "shared sacrifice."

Insane McCain is not what America needs.

He supported Bush's war in Iraq too much for me.

This is how they are going to play it. Obama will say I dont politic that way, and the DNC will put out ads and Obama will claim that he doesnt know anything about them. So much for a diff kind of politics huh? Everyone knows that McCain is the ONLY independant thinking candidate running for president. Obama is a party hack just like everyone that comes form Crooked Cook COunty. How come the media doesnt bring up the fact that he he earmarked millions of dollars to the University of Chicago Hospital in 2006 which just also happened to be the place his wife was an Executive.

It's put out by the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Posted by: Joseph Medill |

Well then we know already it's a bunch of lies. Thanks for the warning, "Joseph."

Don Quixote and Sancho comes to mind.

Anyone who doesn't want to pay taxes to support their country needs to find another country to live in, because you obviously do not love your country enough to support it. Paying taxes = patriotic. Deal with it.

Ha! The ad seems to have touched a nerve from our Republic buddies.

As to poor little Newtie, who cares about your years of sobriety! In fact, you sound like a big whiner and fake. Never complained my butt.

The DNC ad, like most political ads, oversimplifies and misleads. What it fails to disclose is that Senator McCain IS from the right-wing of the GOP. Most observers understand that the GOP's right wing has three components: the DefCons/foreign policy hawks (the wing McCain most closely identifies with), the social conservatives (currently with Governor Huckabee as their standard bearer), and the Wall Street/Big Business/Rush Limbaugh/Bush41 conservatives (whose standard bearer was Mitt Romney). The accommodations that Senator McCain is now making, slight as they are, are to the Wall Street component of the right wing.

Hey Joseph Medill, before you mock Berkeley's taunting of supposed tough guy jarheads...have you enlisted yet?

If not, please do. If yes, please re-enlist. If re-enlisted, please volunteer for a suicide mission and die for Dubya. I'm quite sure he'll provide 72 Redneckpublican virgins fer ya.

Newt,

Its not about abandoning our troups -- its about bringing them home!

The Republicans are the ones who have abandoned them. Our troups' tours have been extended, their time in the field has been increased. If they are injured their bonuses are taken back because they didn't meet their full obligations. They're fed badly and given substandard equipment to fight this war, while we pay 10 times as much to the mercenaries we've placed there. Oh, and millionaires and billionaires got a tax break while all of this was going on.

We started this war with lies, we were then promised that this would be paid for with Iraqi oil money. Trillions of dollars later we are in debt to the Chinese, and the Iraqi government is not a step closer to resolving their own differences. And McCain wants us to think about being there as a military presence for the next 100 years.

The Republican Party has always tried to argue they were the fiscally responsible ones. So, now what do they want to do? They want to make the tax cuts for the rich permanent while the rest of us foot the bill. They want to keep the incentives going for corporations to leave the U.S. They want to continue to eat away at our position in the world by supporting the use of torture. All this while this policy continues to encourage the radical fringe of Islam.

Please, not four more years of that....

Thanks John for helping me see the light. I must admit that I am still having difficulty with your concept of "shared sacrifice," though. Living on my life's savings and a fixed income at age 70 I struggle to keep my home even with the Bush level taxes. I guess I just don't have enough common sense to go live on the streets so the "illegals" can have the same benefits I spent my lifetime earning. Sorry!
P.S. I have been sober since 1973; served my country for 32 years; went where I was asked and never complained. I considered my service as "shared sacrifice."

Posted by: Newt from Littleton | February 14, 2008 11:39 AM

Newt -

No one is questioning your honor or your sacrifice to your country.

You say you are living on life's savings and fixed income at age 70 and struggle to stay afloat even with the bush tax cuts. The bush tax cuts only affected the top earners. If that's all you are living off of, the bush tax cuts never helped you and restoring them to their previous levels will not hurt you.

The democrats are scared! In a year where a democrat president seemed a sure thing, the DNC (and George Soros's money) will ensure another loss for whichever candidate is chosen with their predictable, unimaginative attack ads.

Good job democrats! You just turned off yet another independent voter before the real race even began.

"THE BOEHNER SPEAKS"

LETS JUST GET UP AND WALK OUT, WE DON'T NEED TO SIT HERE AND WAIT FOR JOHN MCCAIN TO BE PRESIDENT TO TRAMPLE ON THE CONSTITUTION.

LETS JUST GET UP AND WALK OUT, WE DON'T NEED TO SIT HERE IN THE "SPEAKERS HOUSE" FOR GEORGE BUSH TO LOVE JOHN MCCAIN TO TRAMPLE ON THE FREEDOMS OF THIS GREAT NATION OF THE GOP.

LETS US JUST WALK OUT ON EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD AND PUT JOHN MCCAIN IN KING GEORGE CHAIR SO WE CAN GET RID OF THE "CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES"

I WANT TO GO WATERBOARDING TODAY MY FELLOW COLLEAGUES, AND I THINK YOU SHOULD WALK OUT OF AND FOLLOW THOU!

These posts just make me sad. Do people really think that Bush has done well for americans? Our economy is a shambles - just think if the multi-billions of dollars were spent here in the US on making borders safe? A. There would actually be fewer dead sons and brothers of americans. B. It probably wouldn't be so easy to buy tons of hazardous chemicals here in the US to pour in our lakes, rivers, and streams - at least where its not already polluted anyway. The idiots are the people who think that dems are the problem. Cheney and Bush are the problem, but it will all come out in the history books, once democracy is reinstated and there is freedom of information again. I hope people begin thinking for themselves one day. 3% of americans hold all the wealth - if you make less than 100,000 per year, why are you a republican? You think they are doing you any favors? I hope you enjoy your 600 bucks. Whoo hoo, you can't even buy the big screen you want...oh, but you can buy your gun.

So much for being a "straight-talking maverick".

John McBush is a flip-floping liar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI

The funny thing about conservatives and their illegal immigrant argument is that it is conservatives that are hiring the illegal immigrants. Factory owners, farmers, contractors. My how the pot doth call the kettle black!

"CRACK USERS IN AMERICA SPEAKS"

SO HOW DOES IT FEEL AMERICA, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO WAKE UP BROKE, HUNGRY, STUCK ON STUPID KNOWING WHY BUT NOT KNOW WHY!

SO HOW DOES IT FEEL TO NOT BE APART OF "THE AMERICAN DREAM"

HOW MANY CRACKHEADS DO YOU KNOW BELIEVE IN THE "RULE OF LAW?"

NOT MANY, AND NOT THE 196 HOUSE MEMBERS WHO DECIDED TODAY WAS A GREAT DAY TO EXPERIENCE A MOMENT OF "CRACK"

BOY I'VE NEVER SEEN A "BLUNT" SO LONG WALKING OUT OF A CHAMBER HALL JUST LIT UP WITH PURE SMOKE!

OOOHWEEE ICKY STICKY STUPID SMOKE COMING OFF A MAN WHO APPEARED TO BE STUCK ON STUPID.

THEY LOOKED "MAD AS HELL" AND THE CIVIL LIBERTIES OF THIS COUNTRY JUST STEPPED ON "FORCES OF NATURE"

"HEY BOEHNER CAN YOU SPARE A CRACKHEAD A DIME?"

.S. I have been sober since 1973; served my country for 32 years; went where I was asked and never complained. I considered my service as "shared sacrifice."

Posted by: Newt from Littleton | February 14, 2008 11:39 AM

Maybe you should start drinking again and I would drop that first name of yours (Newt), unless you want to be tied to that hypocritical, flip-flopping gasbag for the rest of your life.

John McAmnesty:
http://degreeofmadness.typepad.com/degree_of_madness/2008/01/john-mccains-am.html

Shorter Angela Ordway: I'm a big, fat Republic party troll.

Calling them 'illegals' is just a convenient way for people to forget that they are human beings as well. It's easy to oppose something when you remove all possible areas of interest one can relate to. All three candidates will give preference to special interests and corporations over the average individual. Wake up! The 'change' everyone is clamoring for will not come any time soon...