{"id":3689,"date":"2008-09-09T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/09\/mccain-obama-spar-in-new-tv-ads\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T17:20:00","slug":"mccain-obama-spar-in-new-tv-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/09\/mccain-obama-spar-in-new-tv-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain, Obama spar in new TV ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Republican presidential nominee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John McCain<\/a> is out with a new TV ad trying to build up the maverick image of him and his running mate, while Democratic opponent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> is out with his own ad claiming McCain and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/about\/governorpalin.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Palin<\/a> are \u201canything but\u201d mavericks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here\u2019s McCain\u2019s new ad:<\/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\/bVIaqCjvLpU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bVIaqCjvLpU&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\">\u201cThe original mavericks. He fights pork barrel spending. She stopped the bridge to nowhere. He took on the drug industry. She took on big oil,\u201d the ad\u2019s narrator states about McCain and Palin. \u201cHe battled Republicans and reformed <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. She battled Republicans and reformed <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Alaska<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. They\u2019ll make history. They\u2019ll change <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Shortly after that ad was unveiled on Monday, Obama released this ad:<\/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\/NBtbG5xjFBY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NBtbG5xjFBY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" 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\">\u201cThey call themselves mavericks. Whoa. Truth is, they\u2019re anything but,\u201d the narrator states. \u201cJohn McCain is hardly a maverick when seven of his top campaign advisors are <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> lobbyists. He\u2019s no maverick when he votes with Bush 90 percent of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cAnd Sarah Palin\u2019s no maverick either,\u201d the narrator states. \u201cShe was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it. Politicians lying about their records? You don\u2019t call that maverick. You call it more of the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential nominee John McCain is out with a new TV ad trying to build up the maverick image of him and his running mate, while Democratic opponent Barack Obama is out with his own ad claiming McCain and Sarah Palin are \u201canything but\u201d mavericks. Here\u2019s McCain\u2019s new ad: \u201cThe original mavericks. He fights pork [&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-3689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689","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=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}