Obama also repeatedly charged that McCain would simply continue the "failed" economic policies of President Bush. "Senator Obama, I am not President Bush," said an annoyed McCain during one debate (Lightman, 2000). "If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago."
One hundred percent of your ads, John... 100% of them have been negative," he said (Lightman, 200*0.
That's not true," McCain replied. "A hundred... It absolutely is true," Obama insisted.
Perhaps this is because all is fair in politics. Analysts marveled at the brilliance of the Obama presidential campaign, heralding the level of grass-roots mobilization involved, his record- breaking fund-raising, and his effective advertising campaigns, which some might have said were inappropriate but most saw as simply politics (Graham, 2008).
Barack Obama and John McCain voiced very different opinions during the 2008 Presidential campaign over taxes, the Iraq War, and how to fix the ailing economy (Fouthy, 2008). Things got inappropriate at times, with McCain running ads comparing...
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