Worst. Campaign. Ad. EVAR!

And it's REAL!

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[wa ching]

Good lord!!

[queek]

Oh I'm back now. Sorry I was gone for a few minutes barfing up my dinner!

[Elspeth Ravenwind]

Did you find this in the SNL archive with the ad for the 'Change Bank'? 'Cause this was funny! ...what? It was "REAL"!??!?!? WTF?!??!? Oh HELLL NOOO!!!!

Just say no to Geezer Joe!!!

Elspeth

[punaise]

now that's just weird.

[flory]

Who's providing the ad team with their drugs? They need some better shit....

[snabby]

Wow, that's perfect. The fundies should really enjoy it. So are we to assume that back during the War Between the States on the day little Johnny was born, his mother threw back 27 bottles of scotch?

[kingweasil]

27 bottles of scotch on the tables at the club for this childs arrival,and i drunk damn near every one of em...and i approve this message.haw,haw,and my mom does too!

[Frogspond]

On a serious note it does say (without saying) that if she is still alive/active/withit then he isn't that old.

On a lighter note... I want to see all the shit that she said that they cut out. They totally chopped up what she was sayin. Plus anything that makes him look uncomfortable like that and then have him say "I don't pay enough attention to my mom" must be good!

[Frogspond]

Ok, I revise that last post. I wanna sit with his mom and chat a while. She seems like a firecracker and doesn't seem to like him very much. Saying "The baby" instead of "you" or "he". Even my mom, we haven't gotten along in decades, isn't that distant.

Could you imagine the stories she would tell??? LOL

[CatStaff]

Frogspond, I got the same feeling. Especially when he made that "I don't pay enough attention to my mom" remark and she waved him away, saying "no, it's fine" in that tone of voice that said "No, really, I don't want more of your attention."

A boy can always count on his mom, right, John?

[demit]

Hahahaha! Everything you all said is true! "This child, this child" (just what we need to be reminded of, a 71 year old child as president. Ronnie Reagan, anyone?) and the waving him away without even looking at him—she's dismissive of him, and it shows. It's amazing that they thought this would be endearing. The obvious cuts to salvage what can be construed as positive... that's not gonna fool a generation used to special effects, able to see when the cuts are too cheesy to make the action believable.

And that 50s sitcom music—if I didn't know this was supposed to be serious I'd've thought it was an SNL spoof. But my absolute FAVE is that fake chuckle at the end when he says "My mom does too." Oy!! Somebody quick do a mashup of the crazy statements he's made in the past & lay in that fake chuckle. I guess this'll disappear pretty fast, it's prolly just meant for Mother's Day, but what a delicious object of ridicule it could be.

[mnkid]

Beaver Cleaver runs for president. Good grief.

[Hill]

Oh.My.Gawd!

[spinoza]

The body language in that ad is enough for a PhD dissertation on "Lifelong Consequences of a Difficult Weaning"

[Chopper8bq]

Happy hour at "the club?" 27 bottles of scotch? In 1936? Yeah, sounds like yer typical man of the people to me...

[demit]

Not to mention, she looks better—healthier—than him!

[Capital J]

She does look fantastic, but does she have vision problems or is she just avoiding eye contact?

As for the music... thank goodness I have an appointment with an ear specialist later this morning!

[Ellie]

Oh, you have GOT to be kidding.

[Capt. Bat Hussein Guano]

How much booze did she drink when she was preggers with "baby". Just what this country needs, another fetal alcohol syndromed screw head president.

[midgetsal]

Get. The. Fuck. Out.
Wrong on so many levels.

And what IS up with that music?

The club? Where'd they air this ad, Darien?

[midgetsal]

and they couldn't match the tenses at the end?

[Snarkless]

Come on, that's going to be eaten up by the people who don't read this blog. They'll say: I feel like I could go out and have a drink with the old broad. So what if McC's going to be King Bush III, his momma's nice (and slightly less brittle than Blondie McCain). I mean, that's the way milllions of voters evidently think. If all you've got is image or rhetoric or other forms of advertising, warm and fuzzy will win. Ask Kerry, Gore, Mondale, & Dukakis. Until Democrats throw off the yoke of their corporate masters and go populist, it'll be about bullshit like this. Get ready for President Strangejaw.

[Randomfactor]

It's a MAN, baby!

[Basharov]

Happy hour at "the club?" 27 bottles of scotch? In 1936? Yeah, sounds like yer typical man of the people to me...

I'm sure she's talking about the Officers' Club in Panama (where The Maverick was born). His father was a naval officer. As someone who's spent time in such clubs (air force), I'm not surprised about the gang guzzling 27 bottles of scotch, especially in 1936, when hooch was cheap (and government subsidized) on military bases, and there was nothing much else to do than get stinking drunk every night and try to seduce the other officers' wives.

[Billusa99]

Everyone needs to chill and look at the end of the ad. It's from the 2006 campaign!!!

[clevelandbob]

What's with the fuggin background muzak? Did they raid the Leave It To Beaver vault of rockin' tunes? Sheesh.

[redterror]

Well, whenever the ad was made, Mom sure looks a lot healthier and is certainly more lucid than the son.

[David Greer]

Saul?...Saul?...r you out there, Saul? Please, Saul, weigh in on this one...

[pansypoo]

darn. it's not available. i wanna see this monstrosity.

[queek]

The side shot of him looks like Charton Heston in the interview with Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine!

[greenjay]

27 bottles of scotch?

Shouldn't this be a Public Service Announcement for the prevention of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome ?

[MarkC]

I'm with snarkless. This is a good ad because it humanizes him, and it addresses the age issue. It is hokey, but hokey is endearing to a lot of people. Ask ceiling cat.

[montag]

I'll bet this was Lieberman's idea. He was always dragging out his mother at campaign events, until she died. (For all I know, he still may be using her after her death.)

"Hey, John, it's sure-fire! Use your mother! It's always worked for me!"

[Frogspond]

CatStaff - Yep. When I looked below the "Hallmark" surface I could see how uncomfortable he is. She doesn't give a shit about him. demit makes an interesting point about mom being dismissive. I didn't want him to be prez before but now that I look at this, and combined with other things (obsession to make Admiral cause that would be at least as good as daddy and grandady), the LAST fucking thing we need is another prez with "I gotta do better than [insert ancestor name here]" issues.

Y'all, we need to talk to our neighbors and others (not just the liberals) about this election. Do what we can to get votes for ANYONE else but this guy.

[Father Ted]

"So it was a Friday I was born on, right? No wait, it was a Saturday ... or was it Friday? Anyway, when I'm President, I'm going to gonna bomb bomb bomb Iran. Or was it Iraq? No, it was definitely Iran. Which ones are the Shiites again, Joe?".

Perhaps we should just be glad he managed to get through an entire conversation without mentioning the Hanoi Hilton.

[EurekaSprings,AR]

Here here, montag, good to see your words, wherever they dance.

[llamajockey]

I think what is really distressing you Obamabots is that that Mr HopeyChangey may have to run against a man who is not so ashamed of the white woman who raised him. You know like the granny that Obama threw under a bus when it was politically convenient so he could defend momentarily the F'ing crazy racist charlatan he told the world was his spiratual advisor.

As soon as Obama has locked up the nomination, the Republicans are sure to bring up "Where is the white woman who raised you Obama?" You know the 86 year old who lives alone in Hawaii.

Obama 08' - Mr 35% of the electorate.

Please why can't my fellow Democrats come to their senses and realize that if they can not stand Hillary, there is still the third option of also dumping a sure loser like Obama and drafting Edwards or Gore.

But I guess you really want BombIran McCain in the White House so you can write snark for another four years and laugh among yourselves.

[demit]

Don't feed the trolls, nor the llamajockeys neither.

[Eyesbright]

The next time you hear some moron try to call Barack Obama "elitist" you might bring up how "the club" was such a big part of McCain's upbringing. 'Twas the officer's club for daddy and mommy and little Johnnie back then and it's been the country club ever since then. I'll bet no one ever heard Barack Obama talk about "the club" like that. Hmmph, "elitist," my ass!

[distributorcap]

there is someone older than john mccain?

[JimmyDean'sFuckedUpCousinClyde]

They remade "Psycho" . . . AGAIN?!?!?!?!

I liked Hitchcock's version better.

[Alive!]

Most mothers think of their children as babies or as a child and particularly when they grow older. Afterall, McCain's mother was speaking of his birth. Why would't she speak of him as a baby? She didn't give birth to an adult. The alcohol on the table? Well, she didn't say she got drunk. Where is the decency of some of the bloggers? These are democrats? As for McCain's age, I am 83 and keep my mind active my reading history and politics. I am shocked by some of the remarks that were made.

And while I am at it, let's take the subject of abortion. Å soul wants to come into the world but the doctor cuts out its life. It has no say just because it is covered by its mother's skin. Have you ever seen an aborted baby? As an RN, I have. LIttle tiny well-formed hands and feet, a small human being, lifeless in the bedpan. Would you like to be aborted? Would you like the doctor to crush your skull before you took your first breath? I think not.

Abortion defeats democracy. Why? Because it decreases the number of democratic people while allowing other people to become the majority and when they do, they take over under democratic rule. Then remember that the universe is fair. All things are in balance. As you do unto others it shall be done unto you.