Obama is Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton of politics?

omg! An ad aimed at the dumbest denominator!

Hey, *I* got just a little dumber just watching it!!

I'm getting annoyed that Obama is not responding to any of this and is not going after McCain about all of his position shifts and lies. He said he wouldn't be swiftboated but he's acting like Kerry and Dukakis, so above it all, as if none of this stuff will stick.

I can't understand why his camp is being so passive. Are they that convinced this election is in the bag????

The McCain camp says the ad is running on "national cable" and in "key states," which strongly suggests that the target of this ad is again the national media, which is being counted on to amplify the McCain message for him.

I have every confidence that the national media will credulously play this ad over and over, earnestly discussing whether Obama is too uppit--- whoops - presumptulous these days.

McCain's expression at the end looked, well, presumptuous.

ROFLMAO!

They are panicked!

That trip last week really knocked the GOP for a loop and why they didn't see it coming -

Has anyone noticed that John McCain, in recent interviews, has whitened his teeth, and surely has had botox injections. It is so obvious. Anything to appear under, say, 70?!

He's spending nothing on these ads. He gets the MSM to pick them up to "discuss" while airing it for free for him.

Now the discussion will be is Obama a celebrity or a politician? They're bastardizing his image one step at a time and Obama just keeps trucking along talking about the issues. 2004 wasn't about the issues, the 2000 GOP primary wasn't about the issues. If they frame Obama as a publicity hound, it won't matter what he says about the issues. Do people care when celebrities try and talk politics?

celebrity, presumptuous = uppity

angry, confused = old

What we must realized is that McCain must spend all the funds he raised b4 the convention after that he only has $84m to spend. BO after August 28 will have appx. 250 to KICK ASS. Dont worry he is ready.. the man aint stupid.

Amelie, I NOTICE THAT ON SUNDAY.. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.. I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST MY NEW HDTV :-)

Presumptous? Here's presumptous ELITISM at it's finest (from WaPo):

"Setting what multimillionaire investor Charles Gallagher called a "Colorado record," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) raised $3.2 million Tuesday night in the Denver suburbs.

Standing on the patio of Gallagher's home, McCain made his usual fundraiser jokes about being welcomed "into this modest, middle-income tract home." After Gallagher murmured about the possibility of a tax break, the senator continued, "These public housing projects are quite remarkable.""

A millionaire is a modest, middle income earner to John McCain.

His mansion is a remarkable housing project.

I'd like McCain to come to the inner city and visit those housing projects, then we'll see what he thinks of the real world.

If you want pumpous, elitism McCane just served up a nice soundbite for the media to bat around.

The Ad is silly and its not worth a response. Nobody except for the feeble minded MSm pays attention to that sort of trash. McCain is simply an old, cranky bedwetter.

The pattern has been set. Everyone wants to talk about Obama, but media wants to keep it "interesting". McCain has figured out that he only gets traction when he - you guessed it - talks about Obama. It's also the way to keep attention off his poorly run campaign and shifting policy positions.

So, McCain comes out with attack ad after attack ad focusing on Obama. Is the ad true? Is it realistic? Does it have substance and merit? It doesn't matter. Not to McCain, and not to our mediaheads who lap it up. It eats up television time and print space, and is more fun to talk about than the mortgage crisis or the value of the dollar or our current foreign policies and what either candidate plan to do about it all. That's all that important.

I think this tabloid dynamic dissipates somewhat after the conventions when people start looking at actual issues more closely, but until then it's becoming pretty clear that the Beltway media is allowing McCain to dictate to them what their narrative of the day will be in ways that I've never, ever seen before.

McCain is banking on some people getting tired of the celebrity cult of personality that surrounds Obama (putting aside whether Obama himself cultivates it or not). That is why you see KoolAid and Obamessiah references in conservative blogposts.

Also, the adoring 200,000 in Berlin plays into the meme among some evangelicals that Barack is the Antichrist whose unstoppable rise to worldwide worship will trigger the endtimes (google "Barack" and "antichrist" to see the flourishing of this speculation). (Of course, if he were the Beast then his election is guaranteed.)

It's true that the Obama's campaign has been slow, but doesn't mean they're letting this lies pass.

Thanks to websites like TPM, HuffPost o DailyKos, it's people like us who are taking the stand against the GOP dirty tactics. Thanks to us the media is starting to assume its role by dismantle the McCain ad about the troops visit. This is a different ballgame and the GOP is losing it.

With our help, the Obama campaign can focus on the real matters: present the case for change in America and tie McCain as the real risk: a third Bush term.

But I agree that the Obama campaign should start to play hardball, but without falling in the mudfight that republicans desperately want.

Looks like Obama is getting the message,
quote from Missouri today (from DailyKos):

Nobody thinks John McCain has a new idea on how to fix our country's problem. All they've been doing, every ad has been attacking me.

Not one person thinks he has any new ideas, so they're trying to make me risky. "He's not patriotic."

We don't have much to offer, but "he's risky." I know you don't really like what we're doing, but "he's risky." That's their argument.

It's true that change is hard. Change isn't easy. And the question you have to ask yourself is, what's more risky? Bringing about changes you know we need to make, or doing the same thing over and over and over again even though we know they won't work.

We are in a time where it is risky NOT to change.

A good start.

Man, they really got nothin'.

If it weren't for the corrupt media playing their part, I'd be laughing a lot harder than I'm laughing right now.

When is McThuselah going to start talking about the issues, like he promised?

And when can we schedule a debate so we can get o and The Old crank on the same stage? The contrast alone would knock 5 points off of Cranky's polling numbers.

Adlai Stevenson once said of the complexities involved in his line of work, "A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble." McCain is now taking hints from Adlai as well ??

Can the "fathered a white baby" smear be far behind?

Spinning last week's events through a McC ad Voice Over:
John McCain was having an up-close and personal lunch with "people on the ground" in the heartland of Ohio while Barack Obama was galavanting around with 200,000 people in (shuddering voice) Germany, pretending he's President already.

I'm loving it. McCain's tears of desperation are delicious!

Nom nom nom..

McCain's Moral of the story:

Being able to gain a little bit of Europe and the world's respect back is kinda like being a spoiled little rich white girl showing your cooch off or making sex tapes.

Really? Give McCain a cane and viagra and lock him in a room with Brittany and Paris and then we'll see what his fantasy is really about.
It's like you can't make this shit up.

Sigh.

I think the more significant 'narrative' in the commercial is the increasing volume of the 'o-ba-ma' chant. It's robotic and hypnotic, and meant to be evocative of fascist crowds. If they could have gotten a crowd shot with everyone sticking one arm in the air, they would have included it. If you read the comments of wingers on blog and newspaper sites, this is a common meme -- that Obama reminds them of another charismatic leader who inspired people and gave great speeches.. and his name is... HITLER!!!! (cue the o-ba-ma crowd chants)

the commercial's also going for a manchurian candidate vibe. the tagline at the end is actually anticlimactic.. they warn that Obama's going to raise taxes, while I thought they were going to say that he wants to force everyone's firstborn son into an ObamaCorps domestic army.

Sorry for the typo (I don't know if I can call that a typo since I'm using a voice recognition program) I'll try to pay more attention.
After defining Barack Obama as a scary, arrogant, uppity, elite, Muslim, troop hating, inexperienced (take your pick) not like us sort of guy they will slip in a more electable creature like Newt Gingrich or someone of his ilk.

Newt's electable? Can't wait to start bashing him about his multiple marriages and affairs. Especially the time he visited his wife, recovering from cancer surgery in the hospital, to tell her he wanted a divorce. That ought to bring the values voters a-runnin'.

Remember moral shortcomings are OK as long as you're a Republican. After all, John McCain, dumped his long-suffering wife for the young rich girl even at the expense of the Reagan's friendship and it is seldom referred to by the MSM. And I didn't mean Newt per se just anyone more electable than this idiot. So far, all of their ads have been about defining Obama instead of their candidate. And even this doesn't bother me much because McCain seems so unelectable. But, I remember being so happy in 2000 because I thought the same thing about George W. Bush.

Higher taxes
Foreign Oil
and not just two white women, two white 'hos.'
the notoriously panty-free putas!!!
hodido pero contento

Reading all of the many comments can really blow ones mind. Obama ignores and refuses to play dirty politics because his platform is for CHANGE. Dirty politics is OLD SCHOOL.
McCain and camp say Obama is an unknown, how do we know who he is and if is capable. Soooo Obama is relentlessly busy hopping state to state to give as many as possible the opportunity to meet or at least listen and get to know who he is .... now he's playing the role of celebity. He lacked experience in foreign policy, need to go to Iraq and Afghanistan .... he did .... Repubs set-up the visiting wounded troops fiasco because they couldn't handle that he was a 100 percent success in his travels meeting many heads of state.
What can this guy do that is right?