Posted by debrazza on Thu Aug 7, 2008 at 3:18 AM Pacific

Moving from the $50 to the $100 minimum tables

Guest post by debrazza

After Obama trounced McCain's "Original Maverick" ad yesterday, John McCain comes back with the only thing he has left, lies.

McCain's new ad says that Obama is "bad for families", implies that his tax proposal will affect everyone, when it won't and said that "hence, fewer jobs", without even bothering to cite a source.

These types of tactics however don't come without a cost. John Aravosis at AmericaBlog tallies the full disillusionment of McCain's base, as they write editorial after editorial, article after article, from national to local media, condemning him.

By the way, I had originally titled the post "Upping the ante", but in deference to Obama being the poker player and McCain preferring to play one of the games with odds just a bit better than the giant wheel, I thought that this title would be appropriate.

Lastly, factcheck.org was really quick to come out and condemn Obama's ad about McCain taking oil money because they think that the McCain Victory '08 fund is somehow not affiliated with or raising money for McCain's election.  I think those folks should read what Jed has to say on the issue.  And while they were so quick to condemn Obama, they failed to even bother asking the Obama campaign where they got their numbers from leading to a correction, that they fail to identify, but they still maintain their shoddy conclusion (the whole story probably deserves it's own blog post).  So, I am bemused that they still have not commented on this McCain ad filled with flat out lies.