McCain is going negative. Sarah Palin has already gone negative, saying Obama is best friends with a terrorist. Sure, that is a lie, proven so when Hillary Clinton tried to use William Ayers against him during the primaries. Indeed, independent 527s have spent $10 million for ads on both Ayers and Rev. Wright, to little effect. Indeed, the malicious emails calling Obama a muslim terrorist have been around for years now, to little affect.
But it is all McCain has left. He and his advisors and other Republican strategists proudly proclaimed they were going negative. In fact, a McCain advisor said “We have to change the subject from the economy.” That was a stupid move from a stupid yet evil campaign. The ad above by Obama is a preemptive strike to negate any McCain attack. Its aim is to discredit McCain before he goes overwhelmingly negative.