"I approved this message" Do you believe that the candidates

[chelsea0011]

have seen the ads before hand or is it a standard approval for anything coming out of there camapighn.

[Occam Bandage]

1. What kind of dumbass would be so hands-off that he wasn't paying the slightest bit

of attention to the most visible aspects of his own campaign for the Presidency?

[blondeatlast]

3. The same kind who didn't think flying in to DC on board Keating's private jet

might alarm voters and fellow politicians? Just a hunch.

[demokatgurrl]

2. Required by law

and if they're stupid enough not to look at what's going out in their name, they still bear responsibility.

[blondeatlast]

4. Great minds...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6586501&mesg_id=6586501

[On the Road]

5. As We Now Know,

John McCain does not speak for the campaign.

[blondeatlast]

6. He's not responsible for those messages, either, even if he approved them.

Funny, I had a boss like that, then my boss was called into his boss's office and came back and quietly cleared his office. I wonder why--and why he required an escort to leave at 4 o'clock in the afternoon?

[Coexist]

7. it is their responsibility to do so

so, yes, they need to view them first. If they don't, too bad. They are responsible for what their name goes on.