I missed this Daily Kos diary by Bryan Lefwitz a few days ago. It featured this You Tube containing the audio from a robocall paid for by the McCain/Palin campaign and the Republican National Committee:
Apparently the robocall was hitting answering machines in eastern Iowa on Saturday, the same day John McCain held a rally in Davenport.
Lefwitz’s diary also shows a four-page direct-mail piece about the Iowa floods, which was paid for by the RNC and authorized by McCain/Palin. Click over to see this disgraceful attempt to politicize Congress’s response to the flooding. One page shows a small house submerged in several feet of floodwater, alongside these words:
IOWANS NEEDED OUR HELP
But Barack Obama and His Democrat
Congress Went On Vacation
A pathetic and desperate move from a candidate who trails Obama by more than 11 points in Iowa, according to the pollster.com polling average.
Anyway, as Daily Kos user JR reminds us, it was McCain who enjoyed birthday cake with George W. Bush while levees were breaching in New Orleans three years ago.
Are any other candidates (from either party) using images of the flooding or flood-related rhetoric in their campaigns? Post a comment or send me an e-mail if you know of any examples.
Also, feel free to share your thoughts on a question Josh Marshall posed recently: after this election, will McCain ever apologize for the way he campaigned?
4 Comments
Mcain surveyed the damage ROLF
If any of you remember the news coverage on KCRG and KWWL Mc CAin was taking heat going into his Cedar Rapids event for not making time to see the destruction from the floods. After his campaign repeatedly said they did not have the time to do so, they changed their mind as a result of public pressure. One problem, he could not have been in the impacted area for more than a couple of minutes. I was at that Mc CAin event trying to do some good old fashion bird-dogging. We left right after Mc CAin left the venue, since there was no longer a chance to ask him a question we hoped to post on youtube.
We made the long walk back to our car and saw the motorcade with Mc Cain and Palin coming back from their tour as we were still on our way to the car. Granted it was about a 20 minute walk, and we talked to our Health Care for Iowa Friends for a about five minutes. This gives him about 25 minutes to get from the Airport to near downtown, tour the area and come back. Some MFing break in campaigning.
schwartz2020 Tue 14 Oct 11:48 AM
you should be grateful
Look at how much time they devoted to Iowa compared to Palin’s recent “campaign stop” in West Virginia:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…
desmoinesdem Tue 14 Oct 12:14 PM
If you get robo call audio, let us know
I run the National Political Do Not Contact Registry and we are building a database of robo calls (all sides) on our blog.
Let us know!
Shaun Dakin
StopPoliticalCalls.org
blog.StopPoliticalCalls.org
shimane Wed 15 Oct 8:34 AM
thanks for the tip
I have not gotten any robocalls yet, but I will link to your site in a front-page post.
desmoinesdem Wed 15 Oct 2:08 PM