Posts tagged with 'attack_ads'

Are 'old politics' contagious?

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MAY 06 2008 04:38 PM | PERMALINK

Apparently it is! You know this protracted argument about whether Hillary's gas tax proposal constitutes pandering? While Hillary calls it short-term relief, Obama calls it old politics. Either way, it seems that Obama's campaign has misquoted New York Times columnist and economist, Paul Krugman, in their TV attack ad, implying that Clinton's plan would increase oil industry profits. Oh, the irony- using old politics to attack old politics. ABC News:

As we recently fact-checked, Sen. Barack...
Romney Can't Find Christmas Values, Only Spars with Polished Preacher

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, DECEMBER 19 2007 09:56 AM | PERMALINK

Mike Huckabee, the preacher (but not seminarian... controversy!), has Christmas down pat at this point. And so it's no surprise that his latest political ad includes garland, all manner of ornaments, and a blue spruce.

But what is surprising is that Mitt Romney's doesn't. (Wasn't he just telling us that Mormons are Christian too?) Romney has spent his latest advertising dollars not on his well wishes to the Christian Right on their favorite holiday (no presents are exchanged on the ~~...~~