Kiwon
06-11-2008, 05:37 PM
I don't get it.
John McCain is old, he can't speak, his policies are unpopular among many in his own party, he's fighting the natural trend where parties switch the White House, and most of all, he's on the record as pledging not to play dirty and resort to personal attacks against Obama and the Dems, a strategy that severely limits his ability to battle effectively in an overwhelmingly pro-Obama/pro-Democratic Party media environment.
The man doesn't stand much of a chance if Obama is such a divine, change agent of hope.
So if McCain is so weak and Obama so strong then why is McCain being unfairly attacked with arguments that only appeal to the far-Left? If they just let the man alone he'll lose on his own merits anyway, right?
The unfair attacks by press ideologues and Hollywood airheads help John McCain, not hurt him, by making him a sympathetic character. Groups like MoveOn.org don't do the Obama campaign any favors (unless they are actually ideologically in synch with one another).
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John Cusack takes on McCain in political ad
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pop quiz: Why has John Cusack jumped into the political arena with a pair of videos saying John McCain is a war-profiteering clone of President George W. Bush?
"I know my opinion doesn't matter more than anyone else's and I just make films," he told The Associated Press in a phone interview Wednesday. "But I do feel you have to speak out, and that's what I'm doing."
The 30-second videos, which went out to members of the liberal political activist group MoveOn.org on Wednesday, will begin airing as television ads Thursday. In one, Cusack offers a "pop quiz" to voters, asking them among other things: "Who supports keeping our troops in harm's way in Iraq but not the bipartisan G.I. bill of rights to support them when they return home?"
McCain and Bush both do, Cusack says, adding, "Bet you can't tell them apart."
In the other, he points out that Charlie Black, a key campaign adviser to presumptive Republican presidential nominee McCain, has been a lobbyist for Blackwater Worldwide, the largest private security contractor in Iraq.
In his latest film, the war satire "War Inc.," Cusack makes no secret that he believes the Iraq war was created to profit private businesses like Blackwater and Bechtel Corp., which hold war-related contracts.
"I'm not going to pretend this thing in Iraq was some kind of free market utopia to spread the gospel of democracy through the Middle East," he told the AP from London, where he's at work on another project.
Cusack says he supports Democrat Barack Obama.
Although he has made such films as "War Inc." and last year's "Grace is Gone," in which he plays the husband of a soldier killed in Iraq, Cusack notes this has been his first high-profile foray into partisan politics.
John McCain is old, he can't speak, his policies are unpopular among many in his own party, he's fighting the natural trend where parties switch the White House, and most of all, he's on the record as pledging not to play dirty and resort to personal attacks against Obama and the Dems, a strategy that severely limits his ability to battle effectively in an overwhelmingly pro-Obama/pro-Democratic Party media environment.
The man doesn't stand much of a chance if Obama is such a divine, change agent of hope.
So if McCain is so weak and Obama so strong then why is McCain being unfairly attacked with arguments that only appeal to the far-Left? If they just let the man alone he'll lose on his own merits anyway, right?
The unfair attacks by press ideologues and Hollywood airheads help John McCain, not hurt him, by making him a sympathetic character. Groups like MoveOn.org don't do the Obama campaign any favors (unless they are actually ideologically in synch with one another).
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John Cusack takes on McCain in political ad
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pop quiz: Why has John Cusack jumped into the political arena with a pair of videos saying John McCain is a war-profiteering clone of President George W. Bush?
"I know my opinion doesn't matter more than anyone else's and I just make films," he told The Associated Press in a phone interview Wednesday. "But I do feel you have to speak out, and that's what I'm doing."
The 30-second videos, which went out to members of the liberal political activist group MoveOn.org on Wednesday, will begin airing as television ads Thursday. In one, Cusack offers a "pop quiz" to voters, asking them among other things: "Who supports keeping our troops in harm's way in Iraq but not the bipartisan G.I. bill of rights to support them when they return home?"
McCain and Bush both do, Cusack says, adding, "Bet you can't tell them apart."
In the other, he points out that Charlie Black, a key campaign adviser to presumptive Republican presidential nominee McCain, has been a lobbyist for Blackwater Worldwide, the largest private security contractor in Iraq.
In his latest film, the war satire "War Inc.," Cusack makes no secret that he believes the Iraq war was created to profit private businesses like Blackwater and Bechtel Corp., which hold war-related contracts.
"I'm not going to pretend this thing in Iraq was some kind of free market utopia to spread the gospel of democracy through the Middle East," he told the AP from London, where he's at work on another project.
Cusack says he supports Democrat Barack Obama.
Although he has made such films as "War Inc." and last year's "Grace is Gone," in which he plays the husband of a soldier killed in Iraq, Cusack notes this has been his first high-profile foray into partisan politics.