Obama Ad: "Honor"

Barack Obama approves this message. He approves questioning John McCain's honor.



The Barack Obama campaign is imploding.

Over the last week, Bill Burton, Obama's press secretary, and Anita Dunn, Obama aide, have been swiping at John McCain's honor.

Here and here and here.

From FOX News:

Barack Obama took the gloves off Monday, releasing an ad entitled “Honor” in which he accuses John McCain of running a smear campaign against him.

The Democratic presidential candidate, who has lost ground in the polls in the last two weeks, uses media reports and editorials in the ad to decry his Republican opponent’s recent tactics in the increasingly harsh campaign.

McCain, meanwhile, released an ad in which he unveils his plan to fix the economy.

Obama’s ad reflects the sharper tone his campaign has adopted since the McCain camp last week exploited his remark that the GOP candidate’s policies were “lipstick on a pig.” McCain’s surrogates accused Obama of calling McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, a pig, which drew heavy media attention.

Obama’s ad starts off with a clip of McCain declaring, “I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land.”

“What’s happened to John McCain?” a narrator asks.

The ad then features a litany of media reports criticizing McCain’s campaign, including Time magazine (”one of the sleaziest ads…ever seen”), the Washington Post (”a disgraceful, dishonorable campaign”), and the New Republic (”dishonest smears”).

“After voting with Bush 90 percent of the time … proposing the same disastrous economic policies,” the narrator says, “it seems ‘deception’ is all he has left.”

The McCain camp responded immediately.

“As Americans face economic uncertainty, it is clear that Barack Obama would sooner hurl insults than discuss his record of seeking higher taxes during a down economy, opposing additional off-shore drilling to reduce energy prices and voting the partisan line nearly 100 percent of the time,” McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said in a written statement.

“This latest ad by Barack Obama is a desperate effort to move away from talking about his thin, but alarming record on the issues, and it isn’t going to reform Washington or strengthen our economy.”

The question isn't, "What's happened to John McCain?"

Far more fascinating is what's happened to Barack Obama.

Down in the polls, Obama is being tested. Is this how he reacts when he's faced with adversity?

I know the strategy of the Obama campaign is to get tough, but this is going to backfire.

I suppose questioning McCain's honor is the closest Obama can get to questioning McCain's patriotism without actually doing it.

When Obama puts his name on an ad slamming McCain and calls it "Honor," I think of McCain in the Hanoi Hilton. That's what comes to mind to me.

All the terms in the ad quoted from his lib media allies' reports and EDITORIALS -- sleaziest, disgraceful, dishonorable, and dishonest -- should be applied to Obama.

I'm sure this dishonor stuff was something the Obama campaign had cooked up long ago.

It's a failed strategy.

Obama really needs to back off when it comes to attacking the honor of John McCain. It's as ludicrous as attacking Sarah Palin for being a bad mother.

I'm sure it will be just as monumentally unsuccessful.