A nice touch, and oh, did we mention how wonderful it is that Mr. Obama happened to speak on Martin Luther King's anniversary, how fitting, how appropriate, how....Black?

I wouldn't put much past Republican stragegists, and I think the ad was smarmy, but I believe that noting the King anniversary was sincere.

I sure hope so anyway.

I disagree. It was gratuitous and condescending, "this day" my foot. It was like saying, 'Oh yeah, and he's Black, too-- isn't it fitting?'

I thought it was a preemptive whining ad.

McCain knew that Obama was going to attack him. He puts this ad so he and his campaign can later whine 'see we were being good to him while he had nothing but negative attacks'.

 

I think that McCain thought it was a 'get out of jail free' card.

Give your best wishes to Obama on Thursday night - get some good press for yourself for doing so, instead of just keeping your mouth shut - and then tromp all over the 'morning-after' commentary by throwing out all kinds of false leads about the VP pick.

He acted like he was being generous to Obama. It was an entirely self-serving comment, done to make himself look good! It was done to allow him to smother the press coverage of Obama's outstanding speech without getting beat up over it because he'd been so generous the night before!

Some of you may not be aware of this, but for 5 1/2 years, John McCain was unable to produce congratulatory videos for anybody. He was busy making movies for his VC captors, and the VietNamese SAG rules are very strict.

   Thanks for sharing that because he doesn't like to talk about it.

   Mmfa is whining again about something that isn't true. Another false claim by mmfa. McCain did not have any attack ads after O'bama was officially nominated on Thursday. They bring evidence of an ad that was run at 4pm ET. O'bama had not accepted the nomination, yet. McCain DID stop the attacks ads after he was nominated and he congratulated him. Mmfa claims, by inference, that McCain wouldn't attack O'bama at all on Thursday which is obviously false and more misinformation by an organization whose trademark is promoting misinformation.

mmfa: " the McCain campaign did attack Obama the same day that the congratulatory ad came out."

McCain: "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."

PHILIB.....

I think you might want to call Rush and ask him if he's got a few meds to spare ya!

 

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Was the ad produced by Focus on the Family's "digital media director," Stuart Shepard?  Oh, that's right, he's the one who made the video asking people to pray for torrential rain in Denver last Thursday night.  How'd that work?  As least weather won't interrupt the GOP convention!  Ha!