“Low Road Express” site launched by Obama for America
Categories: African-American, Media, Politics and Elections
Written By: Shawn Williams
The Barack Obama has just launched a website called The Low Road Express.
The top of the website has a quote from the Thursday edition of The St. Pete’s Times editorials which states “The Straight talk express has taken a nasty turn into the gutter. “ This all comes after an ad released by the McCain campaign likening him to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
The site also has a quote from the New York Times editorial board. ““Well, that certainly didn’t take long,” says the Times. “The candidate [John McCain] who started out talking about high-minded, civil debate has wholeheartedly adopted Mr. Rove’s low-minded and uncivil playbook.”
A 2004 campaign won’t win a 2008 election. We’ll see more and more evidence of that if McCain continues to go down this course.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:40 pm
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Seriously, did crying about the Swiftboat guys help Kerry? Crying that people are being mean to you? That’s from the Pelosi/Ried playbook… and those two are the ones riding a 6% approval rate.
If anything, loading up a site with editorial after editorial all “discovering” the same “problems” with McCain’s ad is just going to highlight the kid gloves that Obama has been treated with so far.
The average American is going be tired of the “we can’t say anything about one of the candidates” mantra looong before November.
July 31st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
But it’s not Obama or his campaign saying this. The Bush Playbook won’t win this election. The Pelosi Reid playbook has won more recently that Bush’s. This is using McCain’s own words (I approve this message) against him.
July 31st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Why would McCain liken Senator Obama to Brittney Spears or Paris Hilton (bad girls gone wild)? WHY not George Clooney, Will Smith, John Wayne to name a few? If he approved the ad, there was time to cut & paste new names don’t you think?
August 4th, 2008 at 11:22 am
We’ll see how the Pelosi/Reid playbook stands up to the test of time. Right now, they are hiding from a vote on offshore drilling (the most pressing issue to votes right now) and walking around with an approval rate in the teens.