Truth be Damned

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September 15, 2008


from HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/15/obama-ad-targets-mccains_n_126382.html


As promised by campaign manager David Plouffe last week, the Obama team is "taking the fight" to John McCain with a tough new ad entitled "Honor." With most of the spot's script coming from editorials blasting the Arizona Republican's recent distortions on the stump and on the air, the only live-action shot is a 2000-era clip of McCain, in which he says, "I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land."

"What's happened to John McCain?" the narrator asks, before diving into the recent media blurbs calling the Republican nominee's recent tactics "vile" and "dishonorable" -- and knowingly so, "truth be damned."


Script:

McCain: I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land.

ANNCR: What's happened to John McCain?

He's running "the sleaziest ads ever." "Truly vile."

"Dishonest smears."

That he repeats even after its been "exposed as a lie"

"truth be damned"

A "disgraceful, dishonorable campaign."

After voting with Bush 90% of the time...proposing the same disastrous economic policies...

It seems "deception" is all he has left.

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1. watch 'Honor' ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK3Y1KPzW9k