As Senator John McCain prepares to accept the Republican Party's nomination for president, his campaign is releasing new print advertisements designed to portray "the real Obama." In one ad, Obama is depicted as the devil descending a staircase. The caption reads: "It's Nov. 5 and Barack Obama has just been elected president. Welcome to Hell!"In another ad, a group of stock traders are woefully gazing up at the board, noticing that the market is crashing. One blames Obama for the crash, another calls him the devil, and another announces that he's going to commit suicide.
Critics of the ads say the McCain campaign appears to have drifted away from its original promise of running a positive race. However, campaign staffers say they vetoed dozens of other ads which were deemed much more negative, such as one in which Obama is piloting one of the planes that struck the World Trade Center on September 11.
"These ads simply provide insight into what will happen if our opponent is elected," said one McCain campaign staffer. "If Germany had had the benefit of this type of information, it probably never would have elected Adolf Hitler."
The Obama campaign dismissed the ads as "pure garbage." Said one Obama campaign official, "John McCain is dead in the water and he has nothing else up his sleeve."
Republican party officials say the latest ads are "tame" in comparison with the ads which they plan to run just prior to the election.
"We've got some good ones," said one official who asked not to be identified. "We've got one where Obama is a serial killer, preying on little girls. In another, he's a cannibal, you know, like that guy in 'Silence of the Lambs'"?
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