In any election, since media became a factor, political campaigns have had negative ads. Some worse than others (the Daisy Ad), and some just funny. Most are just designed to show the shortcomings of the opponent, figuring (rightly or wrongly) that voters will not see the shortcomings without being lead to them.
So who is the king of negative ads in this campaign? If we ask the media, or the pundits, or the emotional "Wanna-bee" reporters, or even blogdom, I am sure we are going to get many answers. But when it comes right down to it, who would know more about what ads their campaign is running? The Candidates.
So let's allow one to speak for himself:
"If we're going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily," Obama said.
I guess the messiah has spoken. So for all the foreigners thinking that McCain is the bad guy, who are you going to believe? Some biased media pundit? A blog? Or the candidate himself.
I wonder if Obama is going to run this ad in all 57 states?