Comments on: Quote Of The Day: On McCain’s ‘Obama Is A Celebrity Like Britney’ Ad

By: email feeling good about mccain

email feeling good about mccain — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:32:14 +0000

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By: Ron Beasley

Ron Beasley — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:07:08 +0000

Excellent post Joe. I too am an independent and supported McCain in 2000. No way I would support him or vote for him now. I heard someone say today that McCain has been a celebrity since he returned from the POW camp.

By: The Emperor’s Old Clothes

The Emperor’s Old Clothes — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:22:40 +0000

[...] on how important narratives are in presidential campaigns. Well, it looks like Obama’s helping the RNC write his. Let’s take a minute to reflect on some of the ways Obama has displayed a shocking level of [...]

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:42:24 +0000

CORRECTION: This was an ad about Obama's *** CELEBRITY STATUS ***.

The fault with it is that McCain was weeks to months too late to run the ad, and it could have even been more critical because Obama's supporters go beyond mere groupie-dom to being worshippers of the man. An even more provocative an ad would show people looking up humbly at Obama with tears in their eyes or acting as robots while he was speaking, or praying on their knees before a picture of him. Perfectly valid even if it's deliberately provocative, and not racist in the least.

It was this "racist" idiocy by the fringe that was ancitipated and predicted once the ad appeared. We weren't disappointed. Left-wing radio talkers are going crazy (while the looniness of their position is revealed by so many of their left-wing callers-in correcting them and arguing with them about it. But the hosts' minds are made up no matter what the facts are. It's great to imagine the worst about people and anything -- while hypocrically saying that "Liberals assume the best about people," as Bill Press, one of the "racism" idiots, did this morning on his show.

The left-wing idiots on the radio have already screamed "racism" and because there is no true racism here, they qualify it by saying it's "subtle," "hidden," "coded," and other idiotic lies. (I even heard someone today being obscessed about references to Obama liking Black Forest cake or something like that, and right away this idiot assumed this, too, was "racist.")

My only question concerns how much of this nonsense is due to the paranoid delusions of many on the left and how much of it is due to scrambling to find dishonest explanations of any denigration of the Messiah.

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:38:45 +0000

I'll bet this sock-puppet for Obama who claims he supported McCain isn't at all bothered by Obama's rejection of publicly-financed funding. But the sock puppet raves about Rove while other REAL political analysts [like the Washington Post piece today by Eilperin/Barnes] point out McCain is off message more often than not. His handlers can't keep him on the reservation. A real "political analyst" might have noticed that instead of ranting about Rove.

If this guy considers himself a political analyst, I have some well-watered acreage a few miles west of Boca I'd like to sell him!

He's an in-the-tank hack/flack for Obama.

By: timr

timr — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:23:30 +0000

The ad you mention is, I believe not intended to be about Obamas “cleb” status,but rather a cover for the real meaning. I started following elections in 1960-Kennedy/Nixon-and am a 60 year old white man.
I believe there is an undercurrent in the ad-made by the same people who brought you the Harold Ford “call me” ad-and it is this: Huge crowds shouting O BAM A as we see in the background a huge black(phallic symbol?)-photoshopped to make it look blacker- tower,while we see interspersed pictures of young “hot” white women. One of whom is most known for making a sex tape, the other is known as a southern girl who loves to “partay”. The result intended-IMO-is to reinforce the idea among the selected demographic-older white men with little formal education(IOW sheeple)-that you better watch out because those uppity blacks are after your young-daughters?, lust objects?-white wimmin.(I wonder where the ad is running, what time slots, what networks?) Thus reinforcing the image that these people already have – generalized-of black men(so don't vote for Obama, if you do, you will lose all your young white women(sex objects) to blacks. Subtle message, more refined that the Ford ad, but IMO, very racist.-BTW, I voted for McCain in the 2000 Mi primary, but he has changed so much, ambition has totally claimed him, and I will not vote for him this year. He has lost his honor running these last few ads, and he will lose much more before Nov.

By: ChrisWWW

ChrisWWW — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:10:14 +0000

People shouldn't revel in McCain's apparent apathy and fumbling. They should be worried about it.. To me it's an indication that he intends to win by means other than running a sharp campaign.

Sometimes a spade is a spade.

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:48:18 +0000

He doesn't need to win that way. It doesn't really matter what McCain's strategists have him doing for the time being. (you do realize he operates on orders from time-tested GOP sharks?). They have an ace up their sleeve.

You know, in case of emergency....break glass...

There isn't a fire Obama can start that that sucker can't extinguish. It's turbo-charged.

People shouldn't revel in McCain's apparent apathy and fumbling. They should be worried about it.. To me it's an indication that he intends to win by means other than running a sharp campaign.

By: Marlowecan

Marlowecan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:07:01 +0000

Joe said: "Could he win this way? Most assuredly yes."

I must disagree. I don't think McCain can win this way.
It is not so much that because McCain is being Rove negative . . . but the McCain campaign is lacking Rove's laser-like negative focus.

I recall Rove's campaign in 2004 to get the news media to ask Kerry to explain his flip-flops. Reporters laughed at him, and said: "We aren't going to do you any favors."
So Rove re-wrote EVERY Bush speech for two weeks, highlighting the question of Kerry's shifting position. No matter how much they hated Bush/Rove, the liberal MSM could not simply ignore the President of the United States for two weeks in a presidential election.
So the question got asked of Kerry . . . and his response ("for it before I was against it") defined the election.

There is no Rove genius behind McCain. No laser focus of negativity.

He is throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Obama. Didn't work for HRC, won't for McCain.