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McCain camp: Obama gets pass on ads
2008-10-30
John McCain campaign manager Rick Davis expressed frustration Thursday that negative ads run by Barack Obama's campaign do not prompt the same press outrage as ads attacking the Democratic presidential nominee. A new Obama ad released Thursday repeatedly links McCain to President Bush's economic policies, showing the two Republicans in the rearview mirror as the car drives past McCain's tax proposals. "The most amazingly bankrupt line I've seen in this campaign is Barack Obama campaign's repeated attempt to link John McCain to President Bush," Davis said on a conference call with reporters. "John McCain held the Bush administrations feet the fire more than anyone else for the first four years of the administration." Davis said that the Republican campaign has been given its "share of press criticism" for its negative attacks, but complained that Obama has received a free pass in his attacks against McCain. "Barack Obama hasn't been held accountable time and time again," Davis said. "In the last two weeks, he has attacked Sarah Palin and thrown the George Bush card back on the table." "If you bring up his association with William Ayers or Rashid Khalidi it's, 'Oh boy, that's off limits; you can't do that,' but they can prosecute a campaign with hundreds of millions of dollars with no accountability." Davis insisted that Obama has yet to be fully scrutinized because every person who has offered criticism of the candidate has not been fully heard before coming under fire from the campaign. "You have to wonder what his version of America is going to look like when people who disagree with him get attacked over and over again," Davis said.
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