Barack Obama has released an ad in response to John McCain’s “Original Mavericks” ad. “They call themselves mavericks. Whoa,” an announcer says. “The truth is, they’re anything but. John McCain is hardly a maverick when seven of his top campaign advisers are Washington lobbyists. He’s no maverick when he votes with Bush 90 percent of the time. And Sarah Palin’s no maverick either. She was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it.” Then the announcer concludes, “Politicians lying about their records? You don’t call that maverick. You call it more of the same.”
Alan Cosgrove