<p>Hmmm . . . I enjoy how the Obama supporters on here seem to think the American population is too stupid and crude to “get” the McCain ads. And the libs wonder why they get tagged with the “elitist” label. . .</p>
<p>I suspect it is not the *intelligent *voters that McCain is targeting. Would you consider it a sign of intelligence to be seriously swayed - in either direction - by these ads?</p>
<p>I would like to see more ads talking about what the candidates ideas and plans are rather than all this rubbish just pulling down the other candidate. Too much to hope for I guess. Same old politics.</p>
<p>The “liberals” think that they are smarter (and more sophisticated) than the rest of us. They believe that they are the only group that get the nuances and the intricacies of Obama’s rhetoric, and we the "low IQ’ voters are just too dumb to get it. Maybe, we don’t get it because he is not proposing anything new, so we don’t see why we should “get” old policies wrapped in new a language. </p>
<p>They even think that Al Gore and John Kerry are smarter than Bush, even though, there is data out there that show that Bush is as smart as Kerry if not smatter, and he is way smatter Al Gore.</p>
<p>tega:</p>
<p>Liberal voters are better educated.</p>
<p>Or, liberal voters spend more time in the ivy tower, removed from the real world and the consequences of policies they support.</p>
<p>Hard_Knocks:</p>
<p>Like what?</p>
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If anyone is removed from the real world and the consequences of the policies he supports, it’s McCain. A life of government health insurance and a marriage to a multimillionaire puts him about as removed from the real world of you and me as one can get.</p>
<p>I don’t know about the real world where you live, but nobody in my town had an indicted political patron buy their yard and driveway for them.</p>
<p>Whatever misteps Obama took as a young politician, he has never been in the same financial situation, or even close, to the McCains with their numerous expensive homes and jet-set lifestyle. They are truly removed from the life most Americans live. The Obamas are not.</p>
<p>This doesn’t make them bad people. Just out of touch with how most people live.</p>
<p>Nobody in my town has a multi-millionaire wife, but we’re pretty removed from the real world anyway. Politicians are all pretty much removed–it’s simply a question of who has the most common sense to realize that not everyone is in his type of living situation.</p>
<p>In any case, having seen the ad in question, I’m disappointed. It looks like a 15-year-old made it using Windows Movie Maker. If you’re going to attack your opponent for looking farcical, don’t make the ad itself ridiculous.</p>
<p>Didn’t McCain live for 5 and 1/2 years in a 5’ by 5’ cage?</p>
<p>Yes, a long time ago. Since then, (40-50 years?) he’s been living a far different life, removed from the needs of the majority of Americans. But then I have a problem with most of those in Congress who don’t feel others in this country deserve the same health benefits that they receive, or who vote against minimum wage increases while voting to increase their own salary, or those with secure gov pensions who feel social security for the rest of us is somehow socialism. And this includes Democrats.</p>
<p>"and we the “low IQ’ voters are just too dumb to get it.”</p>
<p>I am a low IQ (close to 0) voter.</p>
<p>There’s another “5” in his history: The Keating Five.</p>
<p>One of the best campaign ads ever.</p>
<p>Is this our choice? A megalomaniac and dementia patient?</p>
<p>Now, THAT’s funny, WashDad! … Or maybe not …</p>
<p>What a dumbo ad! WashDad, you made me laugh. I think when anyone asks which candidate I support, I’ll say, “Let me see…the megalomaniac or the dementia guy…hard to choose.”</p>
<p>Why is Obama supporters unhappy about the ad…it just strings the words Obama has uttered himself.</p>
<p>Like ‘We are the ones we have been waiting for’…‘Light will shine from some where’, ‘Nation healed, world repaired’…</p>
<p>Empty mumbo-jumbo.</p>
<p>No, simba … soaring rhetoric. 
… It may have been slightly over the top, but I’m sure it was intended to be inspirational rather than specific.</p>
<p>**511,000 views **in the first 24 hours on YouTube.</p>