McCain runs desperate ads in West Virginia

by: Carnacki

Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 23:55:11 PM EDT

Previously, on the GOP side, only the RNC was spending money on ads in West Virginia. That the McCain camp is now spending on ads in the state is yet another sign that the broadening map is putting McCain on defense in multiple states that went for Bush last time, sometimes by significant margins, and forcing him to spend money in them with time running out.

The employee, who's with WCHS in Charleston, tells us that McCain is running this spot on the station geared specifically to West Virginia that attacks Obama on coal, charging that while clean coal means "thousands of jobs" for West Virginians, it's opposed by "Obama, Biden, and their liberal allies"...

Barack Obama supports clean coal, one of our disagreements with him by many here at this site.

The WCHS employee also confirms that the West Virginia station is running another McCain ad that stars Hank Williams, Jr., hitting Obama over the "bitter" line, a spot that had only been previously heard in Montana.

The other ad they're running focuses on Obama's remarks about people being "bitter." They've got Hank Williams Jr., an international celebrity, talking about how Obama doesn't "understand small towns" so we should support the Republican, John McCain, who is so rich that he can't remember how many homes he owns and he got rich by cheating on his first wife and marrying a beer heiress.

Perhaps Hank Williams Jr. is wealthy enough that he's not worried about the economy, but you can bet those of us living in small towns throughout West Virginia are pretty damn bitter about what the Republicans have done to our nation for the past eight years.

When Hank Williams Jr. says Obama doesn't understand "our way of life," is Williams referring to a life like his that includes a long history of heavy abuse of alcohol and drugs and four divorces and jetsetting to concerts? Because many of us in small towns aren't familiar with Hank Williams way of life and it's ridiculous for Williams to pretend to be one of us.

But all my rowdy friends know Barack Obama is the candidate who understands how to enact policies that'll be better for those of us living in small towns and come Nov. 5 Hank Williams Jr. is just going to have a tear in his beer.

Now here's a video from a genuine country star who was proud of being liberal and yes this song is bitter. So while Hank wraps himself pretentiously in the red, white and blue, I'll stick by the Man in Black.

Here's a more uplifting spoken word, Johnny Cash's I Am the Nation