Latest McCain Campaign Claim: Talking About Job Losses Is Exploiting Workers

[Mass]

If we can come back to what matters, here is the McCain campaign latest claim:

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/latest_mccain_campaign_claim_t.php

The McCain campaign has unveiled a new message today, amplifying their theme about Obama's life being "grand": When Obama talks about job losses, he's just exploiting the working class -- and they've rolled out a working-class supporter to make that very case.

On a conference call just now with reporters, held in response to an Obama radio ad in Ohio tying McCain and Rick Davis to local job losses, an area resident who supports McCain lambasted Obama for running the ad.

"Shame, shame on Barack Obama for making us and putting us in this sort of position to look like the sad little Wilmington people," said Mary Houghtaling, a local McCain supporter. Houghtaling later added, "He should be helping us, not harming us. He makes us look foolish, it's not right."

Obama, however, is and has been actually trying to do something to help those trapped in this situation. A little over a week ago, he called for the Bush Administration to take action against the deal in question.

Meanwhile, the McCain people have another radio ad out, set to air in "key states," essentially a radio version of their "grand" TV ad.

(audio at the link)

[Epiphany4z]

1. hahaha

jeezus...can his campaign twist any harder

[Bluzmann57]

2. Huh?

I just don't get how talking about job losses is exploiting workers. Been jobless before and really appreciated help. Politicians who helped were appreciated. McCain's people must be crazy or something.

[ErinBerin84]

3. oh god, Mary. Way to make a fool out of yourself.

Heh, wasn't it the McCain campaign's grand plan to portray Obama as a "job killing machine"?

[sourmilk]

4. ,,,"the sad little Wilmington people???"

Where do they find these folks?

Oh, yeah, I forgot. Under rocks, obviously.

[zbdent]

6. "We represent ... the Wilmington guild, the Wilmington guild, the Wilmington guild!"

someone please drop a house on Ann Coulter ...

[blondeatlast]

17. My guess is Mary hasn't been hurt too hard. Others, not so lucky. nt

[mucifer]

5. I'm very curious about whether that will work. This could backfire.

[TwilightGardener]

7. I hope Obama's camp just ignores Mary Dingaling. The REST of Ohio might like

to know how McCain's policies have led to their job losses.

[Mass]

10. Or how his campaign manager help cut these jobs.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/08/mccain_to_discuss_potential_jo.php

[DJ13]

8. Next, talking about restaurants exploits the hungry

:crazy:

[Coexist]

9. Mary is the one who asked the original question at the town hall

where McCain failed to mention he was tied to her loss, so its kind of funny that she is putting McCain the Bajillionaire's interests ahead of her family's.

[TwilightGardener]

12. Yep--she was a GOP plant, I'll bet--she tearfully pleaded to him to be the

hero and look into the anti-trust angle, and his campaign probably thought that was a slam-dunk for him. They didn't know that the Obama campaign and the media had done a little digging, apparently.

[jwirr]

11. Not when the McGaffe group were helping to lose those jobs.

[TwilightGardener]

13. Insane--Obama is the one exploiting these people? Is it opposite day?

Are the people of Ohio THIS fucking stupid, that they would rather support the guy who thinks NAFTA is the greatest invention since sex and got the Senate to overrule the regulation that would have kept a foreign company from taking over the hub?

[rurallib]

14. 'spose she got paid?

Even McCain must see the humor in this - er - no he is not that smart.

[demosincebirth]

15. I guess when FDR talked about job losses he was also exploiting the workingman

[Heather MC]

16. Wow, do people fall for this???

Sad so sad

[GoesTo11]

18. GOP SOP

1) Saying the other side is doing what you're actually doing
2) Trying to goad the other side into saying something that can be turned into a soundbite against them

The party of toddlers.

[flpoljunkie]

19. It's very sad some working folks have brought the snake oil the Rethugs continue to try and sell-

more like 'pissed on' than 'trickle down.'