The ads were really interesting to watch and kind of comical to be honest. I was looking at the 2008 Democratic ads which were endorsed by Barack Obama and Joe Biden and against John McCain and Sarah Palin. There was a common thread for all of the ads where they were all about taxes, money, and “attack ads” against John McCain. There were more ads about John McCain than Obama and they all basically said he was a liar and would get the same results from the Bush administration. The ads rarely actually talked about the real policies that each candidate was advocating and they were all edited really dramatically.<\/p>\n
My favorite one was probably the one called “Honor”. It was a 30 second video of just a narrator screaming “Deception”, “Lies” , “Vile” with the screen reflecting the same words in big letters. It then went on to say that McCain was running “the sleaziest ads ever.” I just found it kind of funny because both candidates were doing the same thing and running equally petty and ridiculous ads. It also was my favorite because it did not say anything else of substance or of any proof about either candidate. It just made a bunch of claims about lying and then ended it. It also reminded me of some of the ads I’ve seen in the Trump\/ Clinton and Trump\/ Biden elections because they had the same formats and had the same narrator scream at the audience about lies and deception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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