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Doctor No? Doctor No?

That’s how the McCain camp plans to mischaracterize Sen. Obama’s posiiton on energy. Policy aside, this is yet another reference going back multiple decades – back to 1962, specifically.

So far McCain has compared Obama to:

– William Jennings Bryan, a politician from the late 1800s
– Jimmy Carter, president in the late ’70s
– Dr. No, from the 1960s

Can John McCain make a cultural reference in the current century? He can’t use the computer to do “a Google” to make it happen, so he’s got a handicap.

A nation waits.

MORE: The lame web ad is also out of the ’60s. I dunno, maybe McCain thinks sixties schtick is cutting edge.

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8 Responses to “Doctor No? Doctor No?”

  1. Mac says:

    That’s just sad. Obviously, if you’re going to compare Obama to a Bond villain, it’s Kananga/Mr. Big, played by Yaphet Kotto in “Live and Let Die”. Where’s the race-baiting, Senator?

  2. Sean D. Martin says:

    The Daily Show had a nice little bit on the “Pork Invaders” game on McCain’s site last night. You’re going to have a game on your site and the best you could do is a copy of something Atari released in 1978? Really?

  3. Sean D. Martin says:

    we can let the world know that we will become independent of foreign oil. And that will have an effect, I believe, on the price of oil, if they know that we’re dead serious, and we’re going to do it.

    Yes. Wishing will make it so.

  4. Sean D. Martin says:

    HH: …Obama said today that it’s not serious, it’s not new, it’s not the kind of energy policy that will give families the relief they need. Your reaction, Senator McCain?

    JM: Dr. No, Dr. No, Dr. No.

    Actually, reading that again, it seems to me McCain could be saying “Mr Negative. Mr Can’t be done.” So it’s not so much that he only knows pop culture references from decades ago but that no more recent pop culture name would work?

  5. Veach says:

    Doesn’t Ron Paul already have the dubious honor of being DC’s “Dr. No?” We can’t screw up our nation’s Bond villain nomenclature with multiple Dr. Noes.

  6. Duros62 says:

    Dr. Oh NOES!!!

  7. Thad says:

    He suggested Dwight Schrute as a running-mate on The Daily Show. Had to read it off a sheet of paper. I imagine references to films that came out when my mom was three months old come much more naturally to him.