McCain Ad Addresses Obama 'TV Special'
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The Ad: Behind the fancy speeches, grand promises and TV special, lies the truth: With crises at home and abroad, Barack Obama lacks the experience America needs. And it shows. His response to our economic crisis is to spend and tax our economy deeper into recession. The fact is Barack Obama's not ready ... yet.
Analysis: The most telling word in this John McCain ad is the last one: yet.
By charging that Barack Obama is not experienced enough to lead the country -- yet -- the McCain camp is making a subtle appeal to those who would like to see Obama in the White House one day but have qualms about his thin national resume. The implicit suggestion is that the Navy veteran is the safe choice while the former community organizer from Chicago is given four more years to become a more seasoned leader.
The commercial reprises the theme of McCain's Paris Hilton ad last summer -- which mocked Obama as a celebrity -- by showing rapid images of the senator from Illinois speaking to huge crowds, in one instance before the Greek columns erected for his Democratic convention speech. This gives way to grim images of a boarded-up house, unsold cars and a depressed-looking woman with her daughter.
The spot is also an attempt to blunt what it calls the "TV special," the unusual, 30-minute Obama infomercial that will air on several networks tonight.
The accusation that Obama would tax the country into a deep recession is misleading, as were previous McCain ads, because Obama proposes to boost taxes only for those earning more than $250,000, while cutting rates for 95 percent of taxpayers. Obama is pushing major spending programs, such as one to extend health insurance, but insists that his budget pays for the additional outlays. The commercial uses pictures instead to help depict Obama as a tax-and-spend liberal, a standard Republican charge that has become McCain's closing argument.
What's not clear is whether the novel argument that Obama might be ready someday, but not now, will prove persuasive with wavering voters.
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