Today, talking about McCain's claim that he is going to clean up Washington, Obama delivered what will surely come to be remembered as one of the best one-liners of this campaign:
Transcript below the fold for those who can't watch video:
Yesterday, John Mccain actually said that if he's president, he will take on, and I quote, "the old boy's network in Washington." I'm not making this up. This is somebody who has been in Congress for 26 years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. And now he tells us that he's the one who is going to take on the old boy's network. The old boy's network, in the McCain campaign, that's called a staff meeting. [Roaring Laughter and Applause] Come on.
It's great to see that topics like lipstick that are designed to take our attention away from the issues are off the table and we're seeing McCain having to finally talk about issues. And, it doesn't look like he's doing a very good job of it.
It seems that John McCain can't remember what month he is in, because Monday he said again that the fundamentals of the economy are basically strong, and then Tuesday and he had to start back peddling. Meanwhile, Obama's campaign is regaining momentum. Because while McCain has been touting that he wants to form a committee to study the problem, Obama gave a speech yesterday telling America how he is going to fix the problem.
And for those low-information voters who don't take the time to listen to that long speech, the Obama campaign has put out a couple of hard hitting ads. I can't find the one about McCain's lobbyist staff online yet, but here's the "Fundamentals" ad:
Best of all, the Obama Campaign has released an expensive two-minute ad that it will be broadcasting Wednesday:
Barack Obama sought to put a personal stamp on his economic policies in troubled times, appearing Wednesday in a two-minute television commercial to outline his plans and caution it won't be easy to fix the nation's worsening financial problems.
The new ad was filmed in Denver on Tuesday and was to be broadcast nationally in the wake of one of the worst days on Wall Street, as the stock market, reeling from the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the takeover of Merrill Lynch, fell 500 points. The turmoil continued Tuesday when the Federal Reserve forged an extraordinary $85 billion rescue of insurance giant American International Group Inc.
Obama buys 2-minute commercial on economy
Here's the ad: