McCain has the audacity to call Obama a liar. He claims that the infomercial was paid for by broken promises. Actually, Mr. McCain, the infomercial was paid for by millions of donors. Millions of Americans that trust Obama's vision for the future.
But, John McCain, your claim that Obama broke his promise is a serious one. Let's take a look.
McCain launched a pre-emptive strike by saying this about Obama's 30 minute closing argument:
"When you're watching this gauzy, feel-good commercial, just remember that it was paid for with broken promises. Senator Obama signed a piece of paper committing to public financing of his campaign. Twice he looked the American people in the eye and said he would sit down with me before he abandoned public financing. He didn't mean a word of it. When it was in his interest to break his promise, he tossed it aside like it didn't mean a thing. He is the first candidate since Watergate to abandon the public financing system, and his campaign is now being flooded with hundreds of millions of dollars in undisclosed and questionable donations. His campaign has directly profited from his broken promise and because of that, the American people have to ask: what does the broken promise behind tonight's infomercial say about the value of his other commitments?
Now, let's look at what Obama wrote about public financing in an Op-Ed on February 20.
I propose a meaningful agreement in good faith that results in real spending limits. The candidates will have to commit to discouraging cheating by their supporters; to refusing fundraising help to outside groups; and to limiting their own parties to legal forms of involvement. And the agreement may have to address the amounts that Senator McCain, the presumptive nominee of his party, will spend for the general election while the Democratic primary contest continues.
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McCain also had this to say,
Now, tonight, we can all look forward to my opponent's performance in a television infomercial. It used to be that only rain or some other act of God could delay the World Series, but I guess the network execs figured an Obama infomercial was close enough.
The Truth:
Democratic rival Barack Obama bought the 8-8:30 p.m. EDT slot on Fox and other major networks Wednesday night to air a campaign pitch. The first pitch of the World Series game, the resumption of rain-delayed Game 5, was set for approximately 8:37 p.m. EDT, about nine minutes later than usual.
Why that's wrong: It's not unusual for World Series games to start after 8:30 p.m., and according to the Web site Politico, the Fox executive who's responsible for the Obama ad purchase said the infomercial was replacing only the pre-game show.
"Our first pitch for the World Series is usually around 8:30 anyway, so we didn't push back the game. It was really just about suspending the pre-game, you know, Joe Buck," said the account executive, Joe Coppola. "That's all we did."
The request to delay the game came from Major League Baseball.
McCain himself was responsible for shifting the time of the National Football League's 2008 opening game. NBC moved the Washington Redskins-New York Giants game up at least an hour, to 7 p.m. EDT, so that McCain's Republican convention speech could be broadcast around 10 p.m. on Sept. 4.
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So, I say-
John McCain: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire.