Friday, August 22, 2008

Seven

This is the latest ad by the Obama campaign. Do you feel the ad is effective at portraying Sen. McCain as a person out of touch with the average person?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This strategy worked for the Republicans in 2004 when the media revealed the value of John Kerry's houses. History has a tendency to repeat itself. This time most likely in Obama's favor.

Anonymous said...

The problem with this commercial is that McCain wouldn't know the number of houses he had because his wife owns all seven. Obama owns a million dollar mansion himself. I do not think this ad is effective at potraying Sen. McCain as a person out of touch with the average person.

Anonymous said...

The McCain family's financial success, due in large part to his wife's beer fortune, is not something to look at disdainfully. It is not as though they have selfishly hoarded their wealth and are aloof elitists as portrayed by this Obama ad. Evidence of McCain's compassionate and charitable mindset is quite easy to notice, in fact. In 1993, while visiting Mother Theresa's orphanage in Bangladesh, the McCain family adopted a little girl with expensive medical issues. Is this something that an out-of-touch elitist would do? No.

Anonymous said...

I do think that this ad does a good job of portraying McCain as out of touch with the average American citizen on the issue of economy. How can he say that the economy is good and strong when the number of house foreclosures is through the roof and higher than it has ever been. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot more things to the economy than just home sales and foreclosures, like the net worth of the dollar and many other factors, but look at them as well. The price of oil is at an all time high and constantly going up and the value of the dollar seems to be dropping by the day, so I don't understand how McCain can say that the economy is still going strong, it just doesn't make sense to me. I think this ad does a very good job of what it was intended to do, and makes it look like McCain is oblivious to what life is like for the average middle class American.