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*Main Topics: *McCain runs new attack ad, McCain's shifty tax stance, Fancy
Pants
*Summary of Shift: *Top McCain news this evening continued to revolve around
his contradictory statements on what tax options are on the table and his
new celebrity ad against Obama. Disgraced Alaska senator, Ted Stevens'
scandal is still a prominent issue, reaching into a second night of close
coverage. Harry Reid offers an opportunity votes on oil drilling, then
rescinds offer. Israel's prime minister vows to step down in two months once
his party chooses a successor.
Highlights
1) McCain's 'celeb' ad
a. ABC: Former McCain aide calls new ad 'childish'
b. NBC: 'Celeb' ad aimed to exploit class divisions
c. CBS: One journalist predicts the new ad will backfire
2) MSNBC: Bush pushes for offshore drilling
3) MSNBC: McCain supporter ducks frank question on McCain tax platform
4) CNN: McCain wears unnecessarily fancy shoes
No clips
1) MSNBC – DAVID GREGORY: "There was the claim you remember, in an ad
earlier this week by McCain that Obama snubbed wounded soldiers in Germany,
because he decided he couldn't bring cameras with him. Well that has been
de-bunked by reporters who were traveling with Obama as well as denied by
the Obama team itself."
Clips
Highlight #1
*ABC's World News Tonight Opens with Candidate Mud-Slinging* (ABC 07/30/08
6:30pm)
CHARLES GIBSON: It is a pledge made by every candidate in every campaign, to
run on the issues and avoid negative attacks. Just last month, John McCain
pledged that, throughout the campaign, he would show his admiration and
respect for senator Obama. As for Obama, he pledged to run a different
campaign; run a positive campaign. Well, that was then. Today, the fact
attacks were flying so fast and furious, it was sometimes hard to keep up.
[…]
DAVID WRIGHT: […] The mud has, indeed, been flying. With Obama constantly
comparing McCain to president Bush and today, McCain comparing Obama to
empty celebrities, all sizzle, no substance. John McCain has been trying to
raise doubts about his opponent. Today in Colorado, he was at it again.
JOHN MCCAIN: The bottom line is that Senator Obama's words, for all their
eloquence and passion, don't mean all that much.
WRIGHT: McCain has recently said Obama would rather lose a war to win an
election. He's called him Dr. No on energy reforms and run ads blaming Obama
for high gas prices.
MCCAIN COMMERCIAL: He's the biggest celebrity in the world, but is he ready
to lead?
WRIGHT: Today, McCain unveiled a new ad in 11 states, flashing images of
Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, suggesting Obama is just another vapid
celebrity.
MCCAIN COMMERCIAL: Higher taxes, more foreign oil. That's the real Obama.
STUART ROTHENBERG: Nobody's going to confuse Paris Hilton with Senator
Barack Obama, but over time, the attempt to raise questions about his
substance, that could very well work.
WRIGHT: The Obama campaign dismissed the ad as more of his steady stream of
false negative attacks, or some might say, "Oops, he did it again."
BARACK OBAMA: We don't need the same, *old*, tired answers. What we need is
something new.
WRIGHT: Obama told an audience in Missouri, the republicans are just trying
to scare voters.
BARACK OBAMA: Their argument is, 'I know you don't like what we're doing,
but he's risky.'
WRIGHT: A McCain spokesman shot back, 'This is a typically superfluous
response from Barack Obama. Like most celebrities, he reacts to fair
criticism with a mix of fussiness and hysteria.' Today, the McCain side
released a memo noting, among other things, Obama's fondness for chocolate
protein bars, black forest berry Honest Tea, and arugula.
In other words, high-maintenance like any big star, but Obama supporters are
having none of it. Today, they called attention to the shoes McCain has worn
on stops throughout the rust belt. *Italian calfskin loafers that retail for
$520 a pair*. Late today, the Obama campaign responded to McCain's celebrity
ad with a new ad of their own.
OBAMA COMMERCIAL: "False." "Baloney." "Baseless." John McCain, same
*old*politics. Same failed policies.
WRIGHT: *It's getting ugly early and some republicans are expressing concern
about McCain's tone. In particular, one former McCain aide calling the new
celebrity ad childish. The McCain campaign insists that Obama went negative
first.* Charlie.
GIBSON: […] There are still 97 days to go until election day. I suppose it
could get worse. […]
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You think it's going to get worst, Charlie?
GIBSON: We're arguing about what teas people thing and shoes candidates
wear. First of all, […] John McCain. What's the McCain strategy with these
kinds of accusations, I guess, about Obama?
STEPHANOPOULOS: I think the strategy behind it is recognizing one
fundamental fact about the campaign. Right now this, campaign is about
Barack Obama. He is getting all the attention. He is the candidate voters
are focused on and the McCain strategy is to define him before he can define
himself and there is a tradition of this, Charlie.
Go back to 1988. Republicans put Michael Dukakis, the democratic candidate,
in a tank. In 2004, remember that ad of John Kerry, when he was windsurfing,
showing him as a flip-flopper. In each of those cases, the idea was to show
that the democratic candidate is not one of us, is not a regular guy.
They're trying to do the same thing now to Barack Obama, by comparing him to
Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
GIBSON: And what to the Obama people, and Obama himself, I guess, think of
all this? and how do they intend to respond?
STEPHANOPOULOS: They scoff. They say first of all this, is a more serious
time, than 1988 or 2004. We're a country at war. The economy's in the
doldrums. People don't want to hear this kind of stuff.
They're also going to say that this is just John McCain being negative. He's
got nothing positive to say. I think the big question here, is when voters
see that ad, do they see it captures something essential about Barack
Obama's character? Or do they think it's just a ridiculous caricature?
*NBC Nightly News Leads with McCain Celeb Attack Ad* (NBC 07/30/08 7:01pm)
BRIAN WILLIAMS: We have 98 days to go until the presidential election in
this country. That means 98 days worth of promises from both candidates to
keep the debate lofty and civil and, while they may say that, it's just as
likely that both campaigns will keep putting TV ads on the air, tearing each
other apart.
The latest ad to do that comes from the McCain campaign. It features two,
young Hollywood starlets more famous for their public embarrassments than
their public policy views. What do they have to do with Barack Obama and
what about a counter-attack by the Obama campaign? […]
KELLY O'DONNEL: […] What's known as 'defining the opponent' is a critical
phase in any presidential campaign and that was unmistakable today as John
McCain tried to define, for voters, Barack Obama by mocking a perceived
strength, Obama's popularity. In Aurora, CO today, John McCain first tried
to avoid being seen as too angry, as his critics claim. So, before going
negative on Obama, McCain tried going nice.
JOHN MCCAIN: I applaud his talent and his success and Americans—all
Americans should be proud of his accomplishment.
O'DONNELL: With that said, McCain's campaign rolled out a TV ad about Obama
they call, 'celeb.'
MCCAIN COMMERCIAL: He's the biggest celebrity in the world, but is he ready
to lead?
O'DONNELL: Yes, you did see pop culture stars, Paris Hilton and Britney
Spears alongside the democratic candidate.
COMMERCIAL: Higher taxes, more foreign oil. That's the real Obama.
O'DONNELL: Next, the campaign issued a memo, making this claim: [image of
Rick Davis appears in corner of screen] 'Like most worldwide celebrities,
this status has fueled a certain arrogance.' Today in Missouri, Barack Obama
said he pays little attention to McCain ads.
BARACK OBAMA: He seems to only be talking about me. You need to ask John
McCain what he's for, not just what he's against.
O'DONNELL: Arguing McCain has made a series of negative attacks, the Obama
campaign could not resist playing off a Britney Spears hit song. As some
might say, "Oops! He did it again." Team McCain maintains that Obama was
first to run a negative spot, hitting McCain on TV three weeks ago.
OBAMA COMMERCIAL: On gas prices, John McCain's part of the problem.
O'DONNELL: Today McCain also tried to define himself, invoking the label,
'maverick,' and making an appeal to independents, expected to decide this
race.
JOHN MCCAIN: I don't work for a party. I don't work for a president. I don't
work for a special interest and I don't work for myself. I work for you and
the country that we love.
O'DONNELL: And, quick to respond, the Obama campaign fired up the edit room
and put together a spot they say will perhaps be on the air as early as
tonight. It responds to the ad that you just saw and it will use some clips
out of newspaper articles that will say that McCain has been negative and
even, at times, false in his attacks on Obama.
WILLIAMS: […] What's at work here?
CHUCK TODD: Pretty simple, Brian. *They simply want to paint Barack Obama as
an elitist, sort of a bi-coastal elitist. He's got celebrity status. He may
be like Bono or Paris Hilton, but he can't connect and he's not going to
appeal to folks in Ohio, in Michigan, in Pennsylvania.*
I mean, the McCain campaign feels very positive about this ad, that this is
the way to sort of peal away the onion of Obama a little bit and get at
this, say, 'Okay we'll run against his popularity and that working class
voters in those key, industrial rust belt states will end up saying, you
know what? I'm not for some international superstar. I'm for John McCain.'
WILLIAMS: And that figure we used at the top of the broadcast, for all the
campaigning we've all lived through, 98 days now seems awfully close and it
strikes me sooner or later these candidates are going to need running mates,
what are you hearing on that front?
TODD: […] With John McCain it looks like he's going to wait until after the
democratic convention and, I'll tell ya, you really only hear two names:
Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty out of Minnesota.
*McCain's Attack is Likely to Backfire* (CBS 07/30/08 6:36pm)
KATIE COURIC: Turning now to the presidential campaign, which today seemed
to be ripped from the pages of a celebrity magazine with supporting roles
played by Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. John McCain sharpened his attack
against Barack Obama, trying to turn his popularity against him and late
today, Obama fired back. […]
CHIP REID: Just about everywhere Barack Obama goes the adoring crowds
follow. 200,000 turned out to hear him speak last week in Germany. Here at
home, his town hall meetings are standing-room only. Political commentators
compare him to a rock star. Now the McCain campaign has decided to try to
use Obama's celebrity status against him.
MCCAIN COMMERCIAL: He's the biggest celebrity in the world, but is he ready
to lead?
REID: Today releasing an ad that compares Obama to those symbols of
shallowness, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. In a conference call today,
McCain's topped a visor said the ad is intended to pose a stark choice.
STEVE SCHMIDT: Do the American people want to elect the world's biggest
celebrity or do they want to elect an American hero?
REID: Political analyst, David Mark says the ad is sure to get a lot of
attention, but do you think the Britney Spears/Paris Hilton ad is going to
work for John McCain?
DAVID MARK: No, I think it's going to backfire. John McCain's campaign is
predicated on the idea of loyalty, somebody of honor. This seems a little
juvenile.
REID: Today the Obama campaign responded with an ad of their own.
OBAMA COMMERCIAL: John McCain, his attacks on Barack Obama: "Not true."
"False." "Baloney." "The low road."
REID: Campaigning in Missouri, Obama took the high road.
BARACK OBAMA: You know, I don't pay attention to John McCain's ads. Although
I do notice that he doesn't seem to have anything very positive to say about
himself, does he? He seems to only be talking about me.
REID: Today an Obama campaign spokesman responded to the McCain attack ad by
quoting Britney Spears saying, about McCain, "Oops, he did it again."
Highlight #2
*George W. Bush Advocates Lift on Congressional Offshore Drilling
Ban*(MSNBC 07/30/08 10:59am)
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I just finished a good Cabinet meeting, and I
want to thank the members of my Cabinet for serving our country. We
discussed the challenges facing our economy, amongst other things, and we
spent time on the high gasoline prices. Every one of our citizens who drives
to work or runs a small business is feeling the squeeze of rising prices at
the pump, and they expect their elected leaders in Washington to take some
common-sense action.
To reduce pressure on prices, we need to increase the supply of oil --
especially here at home. So in June, I called on Congress to lift the
legislative ban that prevents offshore exploration on the Outer Continental
Shelf. Unfortunately, Democratic leaders in Congress have refused to allow a
vote. And now Congress is about to leave for its August recess without
taking any action on this vital priority for the American people.
There is now a growing agreement across our country that the government
should permit the exploration and development of these offshore oil
resources.
Exploration of the OCS would increase our supply of oil here at home.
Experts believe that currently restricted areas of the OCS could eventually
produce up to about 18 billion barrels of oil. That's almost 10 years' worth
of America's current oil production.
Exploration of the OCS would also create jobs for our citizens. Yesterday, I
visited the Lincoln Electric Company in Cleveland, Ohio -- it's a business
that produces welding products used for offshore exploration. If Congress
were to permit exploration of the OCS, it would mean jobs at businesses such
as these. American drivers on -- are counting on Congress to lift the ban on
offshore exploration -- and so are American workers.
Bringing OCS resources online is going to take time -- and that means that
the need for congressional action is urgent. So I've lifted the executive
restrictions on offshore exploration. I've done my part. And that means the
only thing now standing now between the American people and these vast oil
resources is the United States Congress. The sooner Congress lifts the ban,
the sooner we can get this oil from the ocean floor to your gas tank.
Some members of Congress say they object to exploration of the OCS, but they
are in favor of other actions -- such as taking oil out of the nation's
Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Well, if you agree that we need more oil, it
makes no sense to say you're for draining our nation's limited Strategic
Reserve, but against tapping into the vast resources of the Outer
Continental Shelf.
America needs to take every reasonable and responsible step we can do to
reduce pressure on gasoline and energy prices. That's precisely what my
administration is doing. We're working to expand domestic oil production.
And at the same time, we're working to speed the development of new clean
and alternative energy resources. We're raising fuel efficiency standards,
expanding the use of alternative fuels, and investing in next-generation
fuels such as cellulosic ethanol and biodiesel. We're investing in new
advanced batteries, and plug-in hybrids, and hydrogen fuel cells. We're
working to expand the use of clean, safe nuclear power, solar and wind
power, and clean coal technology. With these steps, we're enhancing
America's energy security -- and increasing the supply of clean, safe energy
made right here in the United States of America.
The time for action is now. This is a difficult period for millions of
American families. Every extra dollar they have to spend because of high gas
prices is one less dollar they can use to put food on the table, or to pay
the rent, or meet their mortgages. The American people are rightly
frustrated by the failure of Democratic leaders in Congress to enact
common-sense solutions -- like the development of the oil resources on the
Outer Continental Shelf.
There are now just a couple of days left before Congress leaves for its
August recess. Legislation to open up this offshore exploration is pending
in both the House and the Senate -- all Democratic leaders have to do is
allow a vote. They should not leave Washington without doing so.
Thank you very much.
Highlight #3
*McCain Supporter, Heather Wilson Avoids Shuster's Challenge to Reconcile
Candidates' Contradictory Statements on Taxes* (MSNBC 07/30/08 4:18pm)
DAVID SHUSTER: Square [McCain's vow that he won't support a tax increase]
with the statement on Sunday when he said, 'Everything would be on the
table,' including raising the payroll tax to save social security.
HEATHER WILSON: I think he's made a very clear commitment that he doesn't
want to raise taxes.
Highlight #4
*Fancy Pants (or Shoes) McCain *(CNN 07/30/08 6:55pm)
JEANNIE MOOST: We don't expect John McCain to be on a show string budget
when it comes to shoes but 520 dollars Ferragamo calf skin leather loafers?
That is right up there in John Edwards 400 dollar hair cut territory...
MOOST: It wasn't pretty when the liberal Huffington Post style section
revealed Loafer Gate...
MOOST: We are guessing maybe the Senator has some help in the shoe shopping
department from his fashion plate wife. But wasn't Senator Obama the guy
being called in elitist? ...
MOOST: *Presidential candidate McCain was spotted wearing his 520 dollar
Italian shoes when he met with the Dalai Lama. Though it was hard to notice
their feet, what with all the hand holding. The Dalai Lama was wearing
sandals. So should they meet again perhaps this simple 275 dollar Prada
sandal might work for Senator McCain.*
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Jacob Roberts
PAO
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