The Quote of the Day via NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro at First Read:
One more thought about the Landstuhl TV ad: Obama cancelling his meeting with US troops really seems to have bothered McCain and his campaign — personally. Do read this quote in the Washington Post from a GOP strategist: “‘They couldn’t help themselves,’ the strategist said, adding that the ad over the hospital visit is ‘churlish and unlike McCain, and hardly will resonate with the swing voters who are going to decide this election.’ The strategist continued: ‘They’re doing it because the candidate, and the campaign, is not happy with where they are and they’re lashing out.’”
Read this post we did yesterday. Yours truly is a “swing voter” who registered as a Republican in 2000 to vote for McCain in the California primary. This ad most assuredly did “not resonate” with me. It didn’t reflect the kind of campaign we have advocated seeing on TMV over the past nearly four years. It seemed to have the tone and accuracy of the kind of ad Karl Rove would have used against McCain in South Carolina in 2000.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.