McCain camp portrays Obama as celebrity.

Roland Griffith

01 August 2008

The McCain campaign and Republican Party rolled out a strong offensive to claim that Obama, fresh from an overseas tour, was keener to soak in the acclamation of loving crowds than to supply real solutions for US electorate. The Illinois senator hit back to accuse a rattled McCain of promoting no positive concepts about how he would address challenging issues like the failing US economy and the Iraq war. "It's beyond dispute that he is the largest celebrity in the world" Steve Schmidt, a senior confidant to McCain, claimed as the campaign displayed a state TV ad called "Celeb". "The query we are posing to the Yank folks is this, is he prepared to steer yet? The answer that we shall offer to the Yankee folks is, no he's not" he announced. The ad features pictures of the pop diva Spears and the socialite Hilton, both known as little for their off-field escapades as for their pro activities, and an ocean of 200000 folks listening to Obama speak in Berlin last week. It juxtaposes those pictures with says that the Left winger's policies would raise taxes and increase imports of foreign oil. "I don't concentrate on John McCain's adverts, though I do notice that he does not appear to have anything deeply positive to assert about himself, does he?" Obama related in Missouri. You want to ask John McCain what he's for, not just what he's against" he revealed, as the Republican ran into flak for a no-holds-barred offensive of contemporary days. The Republican has additionally asserted his opponent would rather lose the Iraq war than the election. Replying to the "Celeb" ad, the Obama campaign highlighted a dispatch in Wed.'s Times that warned about the hazards of negative attacks this far out from the Nov election. The paper quoted Todd Harris, a Republican strategist who worked for McCain during his 2k presidential run, as pronouncing this year's election was turning into a vote on Obama's fitness to steer. "So being assertive against Obama on queries of leadership and trust and hazard are critical, but at the same time I suspect they have to be extraordinarily careful because McCain isn't at his best when he's being overly partisan and negative" Harris announced. According to a CNNOpinion Research poll Wed. , forty pc of respondents believe McCain is attacking Obama unfairly, just about double the number who find Obama's attacks on McCain biased.