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We are not going to comment on or react to the latest attack ad from the McCain campaign. Because it elicits nothing—with its utter pointlessness—but a slight shake of our weary heads. It is the result of nothing but desperation and incompetency and a complete lack of real vision or imagination. To react to it is to give it more credit than it deserves. It is vacuous. It evokes nothing. We are going to ignore it.
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Comments
1) that insults the millions of formerly disenfranchised and newly engaged public, those of us excited about the prospect of an intelligent, visionary, (and yes) charismatic leader for our country.
2) the creators of that ad must have patted themselves on their spineless backs for coming up with that unsubtle, propagandist juxtaposition of shallow, superficial celebrity worship with fear-mongering fascist images. when in reality that message is as hollow as the culture it is mocking.
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3) the ad says NOTHING about mccain. nothing about his policies or leadership assets.
the things is, most of the idiots in this country scouring fox news and gossip rags—that culture the ad is ostensibly critiquing—are REPUBLICANS (see here)! that ad, if it does anything, is going to confuse a bunch of the morons mccain probably most needs to be courting.
one thing i continue to commend obama for is his consistently positive campaign. yes, you may argue it is a luxury of his position with the media, but how great is it that he can usually just ignore mccain completely?
Poor McCain--he's certainly not got the celebrity vibe. Seriously, though, why are the national polls so close? Do we think it's a media let's-keep-our-ratings-up thing? Or is it true? And if it is true that Obama and McCain are quite close poll-wise, why are the Republicans running ads that make Obama out to be some sort of hyper-celebrity?