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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
New McCain ad portrays Obama as a celebrity
I rarely post campaign ads, but this one is creating waves, so it’s worth posting:
Note the brief images of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears at the beginning as the ad tries to portray Obama as a more a celebrity than presidential candidate.  I think the ad’s pretty on point, but apparently I’m just not “getting it” because, according to liberal Josh Marshall, this ad has racist undertones in it because it …  features white promiscuous women:
I note with interest today, John McCain’s new tactic of associating Barack Obama with oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women. (See today’s new ad and this from yesterday.) Presumably, a la Harold Ford 2006, this will be one of those strategies that will be a matter of deep dispute during the campaign and later treated as transparent and obvious once the campaign is concluded.
Psssst! Hey, you! Yeah, you. Come over here! (Whispers in ear): Is that a racist Republican boogeyman in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?   
Update: This is hysterical: SF Chron columnist: Obama’s the first “Asian-American” president.
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Speaking of Obama and celebrities, has everyone heard the new Ludacris song??? Oh it’s a beauty.
Ludacris song attacking Clinton, McCain
Here are a few choice lyrics:
Very classy.
Of course, a shocked and offended Obama campaign responds:
Oh, my sides.
The thing about modern American liberalism (which is really left-liberalism) and politics to its left is that it’s obsessed with group identity: everything must be about race. Thus, the new McCain ad must –MUST– be racist, because race is everything.
When I saw it, I thought the message was obvious: he’s calling Obama a bimbo who’s famous for being famous, not for any real accomplishment. He’s right, too.
By Marshall’s reckoning, I must be a racist.
Update: This is hysterical: SF Chron columnist: Obama’s the first “Asian-American” president.
Well, duh. He can’t be the First African-American President, because that guy can’t run any more.
I would rather support Tiger Woods than this flacid turd. Is that a racist comment?.
Well the Official Media Narrative of this week is: “omigod! McCain is using . . . gasp . . . people who ran Bush’s campaign. Eeek! Eeek! Eeek!”
Such nerve. Guy hires people who’ve demonstrated they can win elections.
As for the advert with Brit Brit et al., last word to Lorenz Hart:
“Vexed again/Perplexed again/Thank God I can’t be oversexed again/bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I.”
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