McCain: Where he's advertising
Posted: Monday, June 02, 2008 9:11 AM by Domenico Montanaro
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the TV ads McCain has spent $1.5million on in the last few months. “John McCain's new TV-ad campaign says a lot about how he sees the general-election battle ahead. The message is economics and the state that has seen the most spending on ads so far is Ohio. Sen. McCain, the Republican candidate for president, is also on the air in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Iowa and West Virginia, all battleground states in recent campaigns. Of those states, President Bush in 2004 carried Ohio, Iowa and West Virginia, and lost Michigan and Pennsylvania.”
In his remarks to AIPAC this morning, McCain will also say this: “The people of Israel reserve a special respect for courage, because so much courage has been required of them. In the record of history, sheer survival in the face of Israel’s many trials would have been impressive enough. But Israel has achieved much more than that these past sixty years. Israel has endured, and thrived, and her people have built a nation that is an inspiration to free nations everywhere.”
“Yet no matter how successful the nation of Israel, or how far removed from the Holocaust, there are experiences that will never pass from memory. Not long ago I was in Jerusalem with Senator Lieberman and our colleague Lindsey Graham, and we went to the Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem. And for all the boundless examples of cruelty and inhumanity to be found there, for all the pain and grief remembered there, somehow I was especially moved by the story of the camp survivors who died from the very nourishment given to them by their liberators. They had starved and suffered so much that their bodies were too weak even for food. They endured it all, only to die at the moment of their deliverance.”
“These are the kind of experiences that the Jewish people carry in memory -- and they are far from the worst experiences of the Holocaust. These are the kind of griefs and afflictions from which the State of Israel offered escape. And today, when we join in saying “never again,” that is not a wish, a request, or a plea to the enemies of Israel. It is a promise that the United States and Israel will honor, against any enemy who cares to test us.”
