GOP pulled Obama attack ad featuring deceased Stephanie Tubb Jones

[RamboLiberal]

The Republican party had planned an attack ad aimed at Obama during the Democratic convention that had to be pulled at the last minute because of the unexpected death of Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones.

GOP candidate John McCain’s ad man told Republican delegates Saturday that the campaign planned an attack ad featuring an infamous piece of footage in which Obama supporter Kirk Watson was unable to name any of the Illinois senator’s legislative accomplishments.

Texas state Sen. Kirk Watson is the star of a pair of John McCain television ads that never aired. McCain’s media guru, “Hollywood” Fred Davis showed the spots Saturday morning to a breakfast of GOP officials in St. Paul for next week’s convention. Both commercials feature an infamous interview by Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball (seen to the right). Despite repeated prodding my Matthews, Watson went blank and couldn’t name any legislative accomplishments by Barack Obama.

Tubbs Jones was the other guest during the segment, and Republicans pulled the attack spot after the Cleveland-area Congresswoman’s unexpected death two weeks ago.

The breakfast meeting in St. Paul, where Republicans are beginning their convention this week, also featured an appearance from Karl Rove, who spoke of studying under infamous GOP attack artist Lee Atwater.

http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=1798