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Article: Ad Roundup: Competing Energy Policy Ads, Barack Obama as the Messiah, and John McCain Is the "Original Maverick" That Democrats Love.
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- August 8, 2008
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Byline: Gretchen Hannes
Our weekly look at the latest campaign ads to hit the airwaves:
John McCain: "The One" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUpM42X-DCs) This ad, released August 1, mocks Barack Obama as America's messiah, complete with celestial images, biblical rhetoric, and a clip of Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments. It uses some of Obama's words against him, at times taking them out of context, and asks Americans, "Can you see the light?" While Rush Limbaugh called it "fabulous," the Obama camp deemed it "juvenile." Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan said, "It's downright sad that on a day when we learned that 51,000 Americans lost their ...