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    I'm not sure how John McCain is in a position to know whether or not the Swiftboat Veterans were being dishonest.
    Apparently he had an opinion about it:

    "I condemn the ad, it is dishonest and dishonorable, I think it is very, very wrong," and "I hope that the President will also condemn it."

    In fact, I went to Snopes.com and they found that the statements made by the Swiftboat Veterans cannot be classified as either true or false because they were opinions.
    That's exactly what smear campaigns are made of, ad-hominems.

    If you digged a little deeper, you would also find out that: No members of SBVT were aboard Kerry's boat during any of the incidents for which he was decorated.

    So, you're comparing the opinions of decorated war veterans to the demonstrable lies of Soptic, the PAC, and the Obama campaign?
    Soptic is giving an opinion, as misguided, deceitful, implausible or wrong as you think it is, it's the opinion the group that paid for the ad is asking him to portray. Again, textbook ad-hominem smear campaign.

    Not to mention that the bottomline is that both ads came from well-funded, well-oiled partisan groups behind them.

    Honesty sounds a lot nicer when you don't get over $10 millions from Republican donors.

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    at tools who think that either candidate or their parties do not coordinate with the superpacs

    when karl rove and other SAF people started showing up and participating in GOP fundraising events AND the dems didn't say anything that should have told you something.

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    So, if you're keeping score at home...
    We're not.

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    Soptic is giving an opinion, as misguided, deceitful, implausible or wrong as you think it is, it's the opinion the group that paid for the ad is asking him to portray. Again, textbook ad-hominem smear campaign.
    Soptic said his wife lost health insurance after GST shut down when, in fact, his wife continued to have insurance through her employer.

    A demonstrable lie.

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    Well, you should. It's important stuff.

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    BTW, how stupid are Willard and his staff to have used this as an opportunity to remind everyone that Willard invented Obamacare?

    Willard
    Billed as "electable" because of shady primary "wins"
    Extremely UNelectable because of shady tax cheating and neocon liberalism
    Yet another "electable" trainwreck for the GOP

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    Well, you should. It's important stuff.
    Attack ads that insult the intelligence of anyone paying attention? The score is always tied, IMO. No interest in arguing who's doing it more. It's a distraction.

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    Soptic said his wife lost health insurance after GST shut down when, in fact, his wife continued to have insurance through her employer.

    A demonstrable lie.
    It doesn't matter, Yoni. He passed the message he was paid to pass. Unlike you, most people don't feel the urge to dig into minutiae. Some of the swift boat veterans lied too, otherwise your snopes link wouldn't say "multiple". That's how smear campaign works, you mix some truth with some made up bull, and you get basically the stuff you post here 90% of the time.

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    Attack ads that insult the intelligence of anyone paying attention? The score is always tied, IMO. No interest in arguing who's doing it more. It's a distraction.
    Agreed. For somebody that has no horse in the race and wants to hear actual policy ideas, it's garbage.

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    It's an interesting point that Soptic also shot an earlier commercial for the Obama campaign about the plant closing. (didn't mention his wife at the time)

    Strangely enough, Soptic was wearing exactly the same clothes he was wearing in this cancer commercial. Makes you wonder just how much cross pollination there is with campaign money/strategy and PAC money/strategy. Could they have even shot them the same day? I mean we all know it's illegal but what are the chances anyone would ever do anything about it?

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    Here is the other ad that aired months ago PAID FOR BY THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN.

    Notice Mr. Soptic wearing THE SAME ING SHIRT!


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    It's an interesting point that Soptic also shot an earlier commercial for the Obama campaign about the plant closing. (didn't mention his wife at the time)

    Strangely enough, Soptic was wearing exactly the same clothes he was wearing in this cancer commercial. Makes you wonder just how much cross pollination there is with campaign money/strategy and PAC money/strategy. Could they have even shot them the same day? I mean we all know it's illegal but what are the chances anyone would ever do anything about it?
    Probably all shot the same day... what people don't see is the camera crew, the director, the makeup artist, etc

    I've been always baffled how any of that is successful, but they keep doing it, so I guess it does stick with the boutons/Yonis of the world.

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    Probably all shot the same day... what people don't see is the camera crew, the director, the makeup artist, etc

    I've been always baffled how any of that is successful, but they keep doing it, so I guess it does stick with the boutons/Yonis of the world.
    And yet there is supposed to be a Chinese Wall between the campaign and PAC commercials? This is ing BLATANT. The Obama campaigns fingerprints are all over this "PAC's" malignant cancer campaign.

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    And yet there is supposed to be a Chinese Wall between the campaign and PAC commercials? This is ing BLATANT. The Obama campaigns fingerprints are all over this "PAC's" malignant cancer campaign.
    ofcourse... just like the Bush campaign had all the fingerprints behind the swift boats stuff.... the whole 'uncoordinated' is fishy at best...

    I have no proof, but it's somewhat evident, IMO.

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    CC, you sound like this is the first negative commercial you've seen

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    CC, you sound like this is the first negative commercial you've seen
    You have to admit this one was pretty clumsily done...I guess it's more intelligence insulting. Unfortunately a LOT of stupid people will buy this hook line and sinker.

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    You have to admit this one was pretty clumsily done...I guess it's more intelligence insulting. Unfortunately a LOT of stupid people will buy this hook line and sinker.
    Absolutely... like I said, very poorly executed. But some people are buying this , otherwise they wouldn't keep dropping millions on them. Just sad, tbh.

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    Absolutely... like I said, very poorly executed. But some people are buying this , otherwise they wouldn't keep dropping millions on them. Just sad, tbh.
    Dewhurst dropped some coin on a commercial that tried the same smear on Ted Cruz. Some lady accused Cruz of murdering her son.

    Blew up in Dewhurst's face.

    Cruz wins.

    I think when you disingenuously start accusing your opponent of murder, there's probably going to be a blow back.

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    Pretty much sums it up...

    Last edited by Yonivore; 08-10-2012 at 07:54 AM.

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    Pretty much sums it up...

    if you throw the republican ones in there too and just change it to politics, sure.

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    if you throw the republican ones in there too and just change it to politics, sure.
    Example of Republicans that should be in the sty, from the current election?

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