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08.29.2008 9:35am EDT
(Denver, Colorado) In a brief break from a fierce advertising war, Republican presidential candidate John McCain aired a one-evening-only ad Thursday with a simple message for Barack Obama: “Job well done.”
The ad aired before, during and after Obama’s nomination acceptance speech on national cable television.In the ad, McCain addressed Obama directly, congratulating him for becoming the Democratic Party’s nominee. McCain also recognized the symbolism of a black man accepting the nomination on the 45th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
McCain says: “Senator Obama, this is truly a good day for America. Too often the achievements of our opponents go unnoticed. So I wanted to stop and say, congratulations. How perfect that your nomination would come on this historic day. Tomorrow, we’ll be back at it. But tonight Senator, job well done.”
While the ad represents a moment of comity, it also casts McCain as a generous and gracious rival on the final day of the Democratic National Convention where McCain was regularly portrayed in a negative light.
As McCain concedes, this won’t last.
Both candidates have been running a series of ads criticizing each other, vastly outnumbering any positive ads about themselves. But this is the first positive ad of the election by one candidate about the other.
Its funny how this is comming from a man who voted against Martin Luther King day.
Though I truly want to believe that people see a positive as a positive, in regards to Mr. Obama’s nomination, I have to agree with Karen and Rick by seeing Mr. McCain’s ad as a commercial opportunity to keep in the game and not exactly genuine. I also got a feeling of condescension in the ad but that may just be because I’m biased against Mr. McCain.
I don’t think it was sarcastic, per se, just a carefully calculated political move. I disclose that I’m a die hard Democrat, but I’ve grown cynical about the political moves by both parties. Hardly anything we see at this stage of the election is heartfelt or spontaneous. Every move, every word, has been contemplated, parsed, scrutinized, focus-group tested… This election feels more like a chess match than an election. Candidates become parodies of themselves. Parties move farther toward their base–whatever it is believed to be at any given election. No, McCain doesn’t applaud this historical moment genuinely. He just wants to take some air out of it.
I do not feel he is being sarcastic, he is trying to show the country that he can make the changes in politics like Obama is trying to do. He does not have to resort to the old negative politics. I am for Obama, but that was a great move on the McCain team.
YES!
Am I the only person that perceived McCain’s commercial as sarcastic?