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.
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?
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?
Yes. Wishing will make it so.
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?
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.
Dr. NObama
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Dr. Oh NOES!!!
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.