{"id":3436,"date":"2008-07-08T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/07\/mccain-mocks-obamas-message-of-hope-in-new-ad\/"},"modified":"2008-07-08T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T18:57:00","slug":"mccain-mocks-obamas-message-of-hope-in-new-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/07\/mccain-mocks-obamas-message-of-hope-in-new-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain mocks Obama&#8217;s message of hope in new ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Republican presidential candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John McCain\u2019s<\/a> new TV ad running in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> and elsewhere mocks Democratic opponent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> message of hope while focusing on McCain\u2019s background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here\u2019s the 60-second spot, which is airing in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> and 10 other states and on national cable:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bpyOSLZw8qo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bpyOSLZw8qo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The ad promotes McCain as someone who has spent a lifetime putting <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">America<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> \u201cbefore party, polls and self\u201d and as a maverick who \u201ctackled campaign reform, military reform, spending reform\u2026 took on presidents, partisans and popular opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cHe believes our world is dangerous, our economy in shambles,\u201d the ad\u2019s narrator states. \u201cJohn McCain doesn\u2019t always tell us what we \u2018hope\u2019 to hear. Beautiful words cannot make our lives better. But a man who has always put his country and her people before self, before politics, can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cDon\u2019t \u2018hope\u2019 for a better life,\u201d the narrator says. \u201cVote for one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate John McCain\u2019s new TV ad running in New Mexico and elsewhere mocks Democratic opponent Barack Obama\u2019s message of hope while focusing on McCain\u2019s background. Here\u2019s the 60-second spot, which is airing in New Mexico and 10 other states and on national cable: The ad promotes McCain as someone who has spent a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}