Right Thinking From The Left Coast
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if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Leave The Crazy Alone
by West Virginia Rebel

I knew talking to those people was a bad idea.

John McCain’s campaign will stop advertising on several pro-Hillary Clinton Web sites that have attacked Barack Obama for being unpatriotic and, in one case, compared the Democratic nominee-in-waiting to Adolf Hitler.

A spokesman for McCain said Monday the campaign was not aware their ads were running on the offending Web sites, and has taken steps to block those sites from their online advertising network.

“When we find stuff like this, we take care of it,” said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers.

McCain has made it known he is reaching out to former Clinton supporters, and there are nearly two hundred well-trafficked blogs and online communities run by former Clinton supporters who refuse to support Obama. But the three sites on which McCain’s ads appeared are particularly hostile to the Illinois senator.

One Web site, called Stop-Obama.org, is a group blog comprised of disaffected Clinton supporters, some of whom are now supporting McCain. Three different banners ads, one of which featured McCain standing side-by-side with Sen. Joseph Lieberman, were running on the site until Monday.

A recent post on the blog outlined the “simple parallels” between Obama and Hitler, and accused Obama’s audiences of having the same cult mentality that characterized followers of the German dictator.

McCain’s ads have also shown up on a pro-Clinton Web site named “Obama WTF” that accuses Obama of being “spineless,” having “communist influences,” “courting Jew haters” and being “in the pocket of America haters.”

SavagePolitics.com, another anti-Obama site that has been targeted with McCain ads, has called Obama a “bold faced liar, a thief, a sexist and a racist.”

The McCain campaign pulled the ads Monday evening after they were pointed out by CNN.

Charming stuff. Getting in bed with bitter haters with nothing left to lose is a recipe for disaster. At least McCain is distancing himself from these nimrods-now.

Posted by West Virginia Rebel on 07/01/08 at 06:13 PM in Election 2008  • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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