New McCain ad — It gets worse

New McCain Ad Slams Obama on Ayers, Economy – The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com

I can’t even bring myself to watch McCain’s new ad, the accuracy of which the NYT clearly is not impressed with.

In his increasingly slashing campaign against Senator Barack Obama, Senator John McCain this morning released a paint-peeling advertisement that highlights Mr. Obama’s relationship to Bill Ayers, one of the Weather Underground founders.

The spot calls Mr. Obama a liar, blames liberal Democrats for the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and, in giving them a traditionally Republican label, blames them for pushing “deregulation.”

Yup. It’s the Dems who have been pushing deregulation.

Apparently McCain’s campaign hasn’t noticed that the nastier they become the more voters flock to Obama. But nastiness seems to be all they have left, now that McCain’s Straight-Talk Express has become the No-Talk Express (he’s barred some journalists who were tailing his campaign and won’t talk to the rest of them), and since the luster has rubbed off of his beauty-queen running-mate. And they’ve admitted that it’s bad for them to talk about the economy. The trouble is, the economy is all most people can think about. If McCain keeps trying to steer the conversation away from that topic people are not going to be reassured.

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