New McCain Ad On Obama-Rezko Real Estate Deal Gets Smacked Down

  If this is the best that McCain and the rest of the Repugnicans can do, then we certainly do not want McCain as our President.

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McCain's Misfire

by Devilstower

Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 05:10:11 PM PDT

Hoping to appeal to the middle-class voters who make $4.9 million a year and have only a single beach front vacation home in their collection, McCain rushed out an ad trying to reanimate the corpse of the long discredited Obama-Rezko real estate connection.  Newsweek teamed up with Factcheck.org to slice and dice McCain's ad, and they detected the fine odor of pure BS laced with the rancid stench of desperation.

But his TV spot gives an oversimplified and misleading account of how Obama bought his own $1.6 million house in Chicago. ... It says Rezko "purchased part of the property [Obama] couldn't afford." Rezko's wife did buy an adjoining tract but later sold the land at a profit. Obama paid market price for his home.

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We find McCain's ad is careless with the facts and could easily leave a false impression.

Oversimplified, misleading, careless, and false. Hmm, that sounds like the McCain (and Bush) we know.

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