Biden 'Crisis' Comment Inspires McCain Ad

Once again, a gaffe by Joe Biden has provided ad fodder for the GOP ticket. Biden's comment last weekend that if elected, Barack Obama will be "tested" by an international crisis soon after taking office is the inspiration for an...

Veterans Take On Obama's War Record

Vets For Freedom, an organization of combat veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, is targeting Barack Obama in a new TV ad for what the group says is his failure to lead on the two conflicts. Opening with an...

Ads Pick Up Where Debate Left Off

Within 24 hours of the first presidential debate, both candidates were out with ads attacking the other on the topic they consider themselves more qualified in -- Barack Obama on the economy and John McCain on foreign policy. The Obama...

Vets Press Obama On Surge

Anti-war protesters plan to make their voices heard in Denver and St. Paul over the coming days, but one third-party organization is taking a different message to the airwaves during the parties' national conventions. Vets For Freedom, a group of...

Obama's Attack Turns A New Page

Barack Obama continues a streak of negative advertising today with a new TV spot slamming John McCain. But rather than fight another battle on McCain's "celebrity" terms, the Illinois senator attempts to move the debate back to topics that are...

Gym Trumps Troops, Ad Says

John McCain isn't letting up on Barack Obama. His new ad, released Saturday, blasts his Democratic rival for not visiting wounded U.S. troops while overseas last week. The ad received a great deal of buzz over the weekend on various...

Ads And Iraq: Timing Is Everything

With attack ads from Planned Parenthood and the Alliance For Retired Americans still fresh, John McCain has taken a hit from a group representing one of his traditionally dependable voter blocs: veterans. VoteVets.org is launching a nationwide ad, "Iraqi Freedom"...

Barrage On Barack

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Perhaps that’s the idea John McCain is borrowing as he joins virtually every segment of the media -- reporters, pundits and talk-show hosts galore -- in focusing on Barack Obama. Of course, McCain...

Of Surges And Timetables

Iraq has taken some of the limelight back from the weak economy this week as both Barack Obama and John McCain have talked up the topic on the presidential trail. Two third-party groups, meanwhile, are up with new ads calling...

All's Fair In 'Love' And War

Retired Gen. Wesley Clark's comments casting doubt on how John McCain's military experience prepares him for the presidency must have really irked the Arizona senator. The campaign is up today with a new ad that couldn’t make any clearer the...

Vets For McCain?

As Barack Obama catches heat for "refining" his stance on Iraq, a veterans group has launched a new ad toeing the John McCain line on the war. While the ad does not mention either of the presidential candidates by name,...

Super Tuesday

It may not be a Super Tuesday in the traditional sense, but it sure is one busy day for John McCain. He's touting his commitment to the global warming fight in a new ad (subscription) while calling for domestic drilling...

Playing It 'Safe' In The Swing States

In John McCain's first major ad buy (subscription) of the general election, he highlights his family's tradition of military service while distancing himself from hawks who would talk "tough or romantically about war." The ad debuted Friday in nearly a...

Where's The Love For The Troops?

That's what a handful of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans asked John McCain and fellow GOP Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in two new ads VoteVets.org released this week to precede the Senate's consideration of the bipartisan 21st-century GI bill. The...

100 Years Of Attack Ads

At least John McCain knows what he'll be up against in the general election. With the Democratic candidates otherwise occupied and six months to go before the presidential vote, there are already two ads on the air that use McCain's...

DNC Said, RNC Said

The furor over a Democratic National Committee ad that uses footage of John McCain's "100 years in Iraq" comment has only grown since the spot hit national cable stations on Monday. Before the ad was even on the air, the...

Obama Gets The Last Word

Not willing to let Hillary Rodham Clinton have the final word in Pennsylvania with Monday's "Kitchen" spot, Barack Obama released another ad late in the afternoon of the final day before voting began. Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton accused the...

The Price Of Loyalty

A new radio ad launched today as part of the Bush Legacy Project, an advertising campaign (subscription) intended to keep the pressure on President Bush during his last year in office, takes as its target not Bush himself but members...