DNC launches 'ExxonMcCain ’08'

[babylonsister]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12337.html

DNC launches 'ExxonMcCain ’08'
By MIKE ALLEN | 8/6/08 6:59 AM EST

DNC fake check

The party will display a fake check from “Exxon & Friends” to John McCain” for $2 million, with the notation: “THANKS FOR STAYING IN THE TANKS FOR BIG OIL.”

Stung by Republican taunts about tire gauges, Democrats are pumping up a stunt of their own.

The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday is launching an “Exxon McCain ’08” campaign, complete with a gas-pump logo and garish red buttons, bumper stickers and yard signs.

The party is opening a Web site where campaign “chum” will be available for download, and the goodies will be distributed to state parties and organizers nationwide.

The fantasy presidential campaign is a rebuke to the Republican National Committee for tire gauges labeled “Obama’s Energy Plan” that were distributed to campaign reporters this week.

And it reinforces a new ad by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in which the announcer says: “Oil's filling John McCain's campaign with 2 million dollars in contributions.

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[kevinmc]

1. Good For The DNC ..... 8-) n/t

[babylonsister]

2. Some stuff that will be available for download:

Buttons (not sure how you download these):


Stickers:


Yard signs:

[Gabi Hayes]

9. that Exxon/McC will be my bumper sticker from now on!

[Basement Beat]

3. Hah! Thats great

That should sting McCain a bit. Help make the chipmunk bastard erupt.

[uponit7771]

4. NICE!!!

[blondeatlast]

5. The site is BRILLIANT. "Select your ExxonMcCain edition: Lobbyist, Oil Executive, Oil Company

Office Manager*"

http://www.democrats.org/page/content/exxon-mccain/

*Which may be a gentle dig at Cindy, who is known to have hidden files for her daddy's buddies as an office manager...

[CatBO]

7. They've done a great job!

It mimics the design and style of McCain's site quite closely.

Well done, DNC! Well done!

[babylonsister]

10. I think that refers to this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6594523&mesg_id=6594523

Did New York couple give $61,600 to McCain, GOP?


By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — Alice Rocchio is an office manager at the New York headquarters of the Hess Corp., drives a 1993 Chevy Cavalier and lives in an apartment in Queens, N.Y., with her husband, Pasquale, an Amtrak foreman.

Despite what appears to be a middle-class lifestyle, the couple has written $61,600 in checks to John McCain's presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee, most of it within days of McCain's decision to endorse offshore oil drilling.

At a June fundraiser, the Rocchios joined top executives at Hess Corp. — Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Hess, his wife, Susan, his mother, Norma Hess, and six other officials in giving a total of $313,500 to a joint McCain-RNC fundraising committee, Federal Election Commission records show.

The donations, first traced by Campaign Money Watch last week, were part of $1.2 million in oil industry contributions to McCain's Victory '08 Committee, 73 percent coming after McCain reversed his long-held opposition to offshore oil drilling. The non-partisan watchdog group said oil executives and their spouses from Colorado, Mississippi, Louisiana, California, Indiana, New Jersey and Florida also donated.

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/46533.html

[blondeatlast]

11. Makes sense; I'm still catching up on the latest.

[Califooyah Operative]

18. It's also a parody of McCain's own website

he has similar user options - undecided, supporter, etc.

[blondeatlast]

6. "We are the people of ExxonMcCain"--and they name names. GREAT site.

Congratulations, DNC; this is an outstanding piece of work, it really is.

[OhioChick]

8. K&R

:kick:

[blondeatlast]

12. It just occurred to me--THIS is how you bypass the biased media that won't report

this stuff.

[blondeatlast]

13. This needs a kick. Great site! nt

[Gabi Hayes]

14. kkkkkk

[KeepItReal]

15. Credit where credit is due.... GOOD WORK DNC!

Great site!

[FrenchieCat]

16. Love it!

[Franc_Lee]

17. This is good, someone put a Obama in 2008 sticker on McCain's tour bus this was extremely funny to

see.