GOP ad in Indiana seeks to link Obama to Wall Street bailout

[JonLP24]

Source: Indianapolis Star

Democrats are blasting a new Republican ad criticizing Sen. Barack Obama as using desperate "scare tactics."

The Republican National Committee's independent expenditure arm is spending $740,000 to air the ad in Indiana. It never mentions Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, instead arguing that Obama would worsen the meltdown on Wall Street.

"Wall Street squanders our money and Washington is forced to bail them out with -- you guessed it -- our money. Can it get any worse?" the announcer intones.

Obama, the ad argued, would bring "new taxes, new spending, new debt."

Read more: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081001/NEWS0502/810010363

[sandnsea]

1. Our Democratic Senate candidate is running these ads

I guess he thinks he's going to hurt his opponent, but is apparently too stupid to realize it's going to hurt our Presidential candidate.

[FVZA_Colonel]

2. Well, I hope he stops soon.

It'll only make a Democratic win in that state that much more difficult.

[FrenchieCat]

3. That Democrat is wrong and is politicizing an issue that shouldn't be

What should be politicized is how we got there....not what we do to get out of it.

Dumbass.

Somebody should give him a call or drop him an email. Doh.

[bulloney]

4. They're running it in Ohio, too.

It says that Obama's bailout would cost an additional $1 TRILLION in addition to the bailout money currently bantered around in Congress.

Funny, but wasn't this whole bailout thing conceived by the Bush Administration and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was the waterboy of the plan, hoping to get the thing rammed through Congress in a couple of days, giving him blank check authority in how the money is to be spent?

Last I heard, Bush and Paulson were Republicans.

The RNC is obviously counting on Americans' ignorance on the current events of how this whole mess started and who's doing what to solve it.

[tanyev]

5. Yeah, that was really scary when he said that the situation was so dire

that he needed to suspend his campaign and get back to Washington IMMEDIATELY to fix the problem. Oh, wait...

[sellitman]

6. Slice it anyway you like but Obama is on the wrong side of this issue.

The House Republicans and few Democrats with backbone stopped a horrible power & money grab by stopping the Bill.

Both Obama & McCain screwed up.