Begun now this election has
Sen. Obama already has begun pivoting toward the general election. Soon, he is likely to unleash attack ads aimed at defining Sen. McCain. With vastly more money, Sen. Obama will be able to flood the airwaves as voters are forming impressions.
Wait a minute: I thought McCain was older than dirt. Wouldn’t opinions about him have already been formed throughout his 947 decades of public service?
“Definition” ads won’t work on McCain. Barack “Cypher” Obama, OTOH…
“Definition” ads won’t work on McCain only because he’s proven himself a master of redefining himself depending on which audience he’s pandering to.
Obama has been crystal clear about who he is and what he represents. Maybe you have trouble understanding it with the fingers in your ears.
Actually definition ads will work on McCain. Many on the left and right work on this assumption that the general electorate pays attention to politics the way we do and this just isn’t so. McCain has a slightly higher profile than your average pol, but the vast majority of folks have no idea what he stands for.
“Definition” ads won’t work on McCain only because he’s proven himself a master of redefining himself depending on which audience he’s pandering to.
In other words, he’s a big fucking liar. Every time he says “my friends”, I am assured that the next words out of his mouth are lies.
but the vast majority of folks have no idea what he stands for.
That’s okay. Neither does he.
I think OW is very correct on this one. Most American’s can’t find Iraq on a map. A topic which has dominated headlines for over 5 years. Half of them can’t even find New York.
Once you move outside the reasonably small group of folks who follow all this stuff like those who comment her tend to, and ask the average “man on the street” about McCain I’m sure they probably won’t be able to tell you much beyond that he’s running for President and was once a POW.
In other words, he’s a big fucking liar.
Well, that’s more to the point, sure, but if you put that in the ad you get fined by the FCC.
frakking?
Sen. Obama already has begun pivoting toward the general election. Soon, he is likely to unleash attack ads aimed at defining Sen. McCain.
But as we all know, Obama is not running a ‘business as usual’ campaign, so we shouldn’t expect to see ANY attack ads aimed at McCain. Otherwise, he would be just an ordinary win-at-all-costs kinda politician, wouldn’t he?
Meanwhile, it appears that Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States.
57 states? Thank God it’s McCain who’s the senile one.
It was a joke, Dave.
It was a joke, Dave.
From the same link:
(UPDATE: At a later stop Obama was talking with reporters and expressed concern he’d also mis-stated the number of potential cyclone victims in Burma. He said, “”I hope I said 100,000 people the first time instead of 100 million. I understand I said there were 57 states today. It’s a sign that my numeracy is getting a little, uh.” At that point, an aide cut him off and ushered journalists out. Before he could mis-speak again?)
Doesn’t sound like he was joking.
Oh, and I do think that this was just a verbal slip by Obama. But unlike Oliver (and a few others here), I have the honesty to give McCain the same benefit of the doubt when something like this happens.
Oh stop it. Yes he does. From the tenor of the piece, I wouldn’t suspect the author is much of a progressive, probably resented even being on this assignment.
I’ll give McCain the benefit of the doubt too. I don’t believe anything he says, so if he misspeaks, it’s no biggie.