<p>Fair political commentary. If Obama wants to be a celebrity, then the McCain campaign ought to help with his bags. :D</p>
<p>Brilliant!! - I just saw the ad on YouTube. Great use of political parody!!!</p>
<p>Half an hour later: **554,000 views **in YouTube. This thing is going viral.</p>
<p>The ad is actually well done satire that Obama has opened himself up to with his stream of lofty self-congratulatory oratory. It is genuinely funny and much higher class in production values than McCain’s lame but - thanks to Obama’s reaction - ultimately effective Brittany/Paris ad.</p>
<p>Is it too late to draft Hillary, a democrat who can win?</p>
<p>Yup - I keep thinkong maybe, just maybe the democrates will come to their senses in time and nominate an actual candidate with something to offer . . .</p>
<p>Oddly, what turns me off most about the big O is the “seal” now adorning his podium when he speaks. Is he kidding? Is he insane? Is there no end to the egomania?</p>
<p>The over 50 people who will elect McCain don’t watch You Tube. That’s for the non-voters</p>
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<p>These new John Sydney McCain ads are the work of his new strategist Steve Schmidt who recently joined the campaign. Schmidt was a Karl Rove protegee who was part of the team that destroyed John “Liveshot” Kerry with the windsurfing video set to the strains of the Blue Danube Waltz. </p>
<p>They are doing the same thing to Barack Hussein Obama, drawing a cartoon character that is devastating because it is based on a kernal of self-evident truth. In the process, they are poisoning The One’s campaign. He can’t use the Berlin footage now (“triumphant giant of foreign affairs”) because the image of Paris Hilton is now forever etched into that footage. Likewise, the bigger the self-aggrandizing pyrotechnics display at Invesco Field in Denver, the more McCain’s cartoon images of laughing stock vacuous celebrity and meglomaniacal narcissism will reverberate.</p>
<p>You know, I’m an Obama fan. But I don’t hate McCain and if he’s our next president, I’ll hope and pray he’s a good one and he’ll certainly have my support. It’s going to be a tough job, whoever gets it. … But for your sake interesteddad, I really hope it’s Obama, so you can have four, maybe eight years of pure bliss. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I survived Reagan, I’m sure I’ll survive the next President. My only question: If Barack Hussein Obama wins the election, what office will he start running for the day after this time?</p>
<p>On the flip side, the day after a Democratic loss would be some fantastic TV viewing. Interviews with Dean and Pelosi and Brazille would definitely be “must-see” TV.</p>
<p>A second term. Don’t they all?</p>
<p>John Sydney McCain’s campaign responds to the news today that Barack Hussein Obama has officially chickened out of joint town hall meetings:</p>
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<p>I think Obama supporters don’t understand how damaging the silly ads are. You can laugh at how silly it is, but it has been very effective. </p>
<p>As interesteddad said, he can’t use those images without reminding people about the ads. This is why they tried to push back, although unsuccessfully, the last couple of days with the help of their media choir. The ads expose Obama as a vacuous narcissist who only cares about his self glorification, and he can’t be trusted to put the country first when he has to make a decision between helping himself and the country.</p>
<p>The ads don’t “expose” Obama in that way. They try to “portray” him that way. Big difference.</p>
<p>Obama said: “we are the people we have been waiting for”, how is this saying not narcissistic? </p>
<p>He is exposed for being a narcissist, not portrayed.</p>
<p>McCain has accomplished something amazing this week. He has burned his bridges with the media, who are absolutely disgusted with the [Landstuhl</a> lie](<a href=“http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~501657.aspx]Landstuhl”>http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~501657.aspx) because they were with Obama and know what happened. </p>
<p>He has burned his bridges with big money supporters like the [parents</a> of Paris Hilton](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-et-cause1-2008aug01,0,4172463.story]parents”>John McCain ad irritates many in Hollywood) and all of their friends.</p>
<p>And why is everyone looking at “The One” ad? Because it is a big joke, and the joke is on McCain – the best thing he can come up with to attack Obama is to complain that he’s too popular? What’s McCain’s winning strategy?</p>
<p>You mean Obama’s media choir disgusted? Say it ain’t so!</p>
<p>To paraphrase Ludacris, the media has totally become irrelevant. They have turned into a propaganda machine for left-wingers. As far as I am concerned, they lost all credibility after they decided to toss objectivity out the window.</p>
<p>I know you are doing something right when Hollywood is mad at you. Obama can take all the electoral college votes from Hollywood, while we are at it, he can also take the electoral college votes from France and Germany.</p>
<p>Poor McCain, how are you going to win?</p>
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<p>Nope. Quite the opposite. If he’d said “I am the person you’ve been waiting for,” THAT would have been narcissistic. The “we” was embracing, inclusive. I, for one, found it inspiring after living through two terms with a president who didn’t listen to or include in discussion anyone but himself, his chicken-hawk cronies, and hand-picked sychophants. … Maybe this really will be the time and place where WE stop starting wars, raping the environment, etc. </p>
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<p>MCCain leads in likely voters. Hardy Hah Hah HaH. The demos are going into a frenzy already. This is gonna be great.</p>
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<p>That’s what I’ve always liked about you, barrons. You’re one of the few grownups on CC. :)</p>
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<p>The looney lefty blogs are now all crying that Bill and Hillary Clinton should be doing more to defend The One against those meanie Republican attacks. Baaa waaa haaa haaaaa.</p>
<p>“likely voters” is a way that pollsters can fudge with the numbers to make them come out differently. There is no standard whatsoever to define what a “likely voter” is – it is whatever criteria the pollster decides to use. It will generally give a right-skewed polling result simply because it discounts the votes of younger or more transient voters – but that is why it is so inaccurate. </p>
<p>But dream on!</p>