McCain campaign is calling an Obama ad featuring their candidate hugging bush an “attack ad.”

[DogPoundPup]

Honestly, the only thing feeling assaulted are my eyes. That hug is definitely more cringe worthy in video form.
Tim Dickinson

http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2008/07/08/the-hug-attack/

[ErinBerin84]

1. haha, they are such little whiners!

I love how much the Bush = McCain thing obviously bothers them. Like the librarian who was thrown out of that McCain event from holding up that sign outside reading Bush = McCain..."Why should Republicans be bothered by that statement? Why should Republicans, who voted for George Bush, have a problem with the notion that Bush and McCain offer the same things?"

[unpossibles]

14. because it disrupts their ability to shirk responsibility

the millions of people who proudly and loudly voted for him twice, and now "don't like him" and will vote for McCain anyway.

[speedoo]

2. Damn right it's an attack ad.

Get used to it, McCain, you whiner.

Karma's a bitch.

[Skwmom]

3. Didn't McCain just joke about killing people? Now who does that

remind us of?

[nc4bo]

4. yea they would say that wouldn't they? whateva! I hope they don't expect a kleenex.

Now if this was the photochopped version of "the hug", you know the one with mcbush's hand in shrub's pants, i might be inclined to think differently LOL!

[kentuck]

5. Freeze the frame and run it as an ad....

And question the honesty of John McCain when he says he is not like George W Bush. Run it over and over and over....until it sinks into all the thick skulls of the knuckledraggers that they can expect 4 more years of George W Bush if they elect John McCain. If they think that is a good thing, we can add a phone # at the end of the ad for them to contact a good psychiatrist....

[NatBurner]

6. what a bunch of hypocritical dorks

it appears that the senator from arizona isn't suited for the rigors of politics-

personally, i think that's his best picture ever-

makes him look like a cuddly wittle insane teddy bear

[AllentownJake]

7. LOL just wait

No Mercy this year Repuke scum

[LibDemAlways]

8. That photo should be a part of every Obama ad. Just

throw it in at the end if need be. I'd also juxtapose pics of Katrina victims with McCain and Bush eating cake to celebrate McSame's birthday while Katrina was raging. All of this is fair game and none of it is manpiulated.

[awoke_in_2003]

21. Wrap up each commerical

with the hug photo and the words (to paraphrase rayguns) "Are you better off now than you were 8 years ago?"

[Forkboy]

9. Must be a good one then.

:)

[momster]

10. Is this the one with the kiss?

If you look carefully...which I can't do on this system...you'll notice that GWB gives JM a widdle kiss on the forehead after the hug...ick.

[NatBurner]

12. yep

they were a huggin and a kissin to beat the band

[Overseas]

And thank god they stopped that dangerous librarian with her McCain = Bush sign !

They're paranoid about these associations, and yet they want John Sidney McCain III to be The Beer Guy of 2008-- not because his 99-millionaire wife inherited a distributorship but because he talks awkwardly and invited the media onto his buses for twenty years and they are still very grateful for that access.

They want to characterize him as "Mr. Authentic" -- they are working overtime trying to revive JSM III Version Y2K. Desperate to ignore the 95% of JSM III's votes that aligned with Dubya's since then.

[liberal N proud]

11. Did he not think that little ass kissing would come back to haunt him?

He sold his soul to the bu$h and now thinks it is unfair the event was documented.

[kentuck]

13. I think this photo was taken before the "surge"...

He was hugging up to Bush when no one else was doing it. He's a Bush lover.

[blm]

15. McCain didn't consider it an attack ad when Bush staged that photo, did he?

.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

16. Hmmmm

Is that anything like saying this photo of Hitler with Mussolini is part of a smear campaign?

[TexasObserver]

17. If you don't want to be seen dry humping Dubya, don't dry hump Dubya!!

I don't blame McCain for hating the photo. But he did it!! That photo really says it all. It shows the complete selling out and bowing down to kiss the ring by this sawed little fraud.

[NatBurner]

19. basically

obama didn't hold a gun to his bulbous head and make him spoon the chimp

[blm]

20. Did he think it would 'stay in Vegas' or something?

.

[blondeatlast]

22. And it came AFTER the Rovian campaign about McCain's daughter; he's just so VILE

it makes my skin crawl (it's been crawling for 25 years, I'm surprised it's still here with me in Phoenix!).

[demokatgurrl]

18. The question is who attacked whom....

and was it just role-playing?

[seasat]

23. Please, run that ad down here in Florida.

That is a great ad and folks down here need to see it. The only thing I would ad is when they talk about his drilling proposal, I'd put a picture of a Texas beach with the rigs in the background up there too.