How is it that McCain’s camp is capable of ads more memorable than the Obama juggernaut?

Allah, it has to do with Team Obama resting on their laurels. They’re living on the glow of the MSM. Team McCain on the other hand knows they have to get really creative to get attention. Being the underdog is helping them.

crr6 on July 30, 2008 at 6:33 PM

Because the race has become Obama vs. Not Obama. That’s because McCain failed to put together an interesting theme in the months since he won the Republican nomination. McCain now has to give voters enough doubt about Obama as a President. He has to prevent Obama from sealing the deal. The alternative to Obama is the tried and true McCain, old man warts and all.

The problem is McCain has to go negative but not in a way that harms his brand of politics with honor. So he goes after Obama’s cult of personality.

MB4 on July 30, 2008 at 2:46 PM

You write like a girl–not a woman, but a girl who’s silly and giddy but turns cranky and spitefull when confronted or disagreed with: a brat who enjoys annoying the adults

You hijack threads with your girl-remarks, which often make no sense at all, are OT, and just…..odd: Song lyrics, obscure quotes, crank theories, and a lot of femme ‘bon mots’ which you obviously think are clever–but aren’t

MB4 on July 30, 2008 at 2:46 PM

That is priceless…comparing a 6 year old to a 25 year old…even for you that is the bottom of the barrel…

I have to say, I like McCain’s new pop-culture friendly ad much more than the German techno web ad, but I suppose they’re playing to two different audiences. The McCain camp, hitting on Obama’s global celebrity, has released the follo…

His “child bride” who was 25 years old when they met?

Allahpundit on July 30, 2008 at 1:31 PM

Comparatively speaking she was an old woman as Mohammad’s bride was only 6 when they met.

Of course, and again comparatively speaking, Mohammad was about 30 at the time and McCain was what, about 85 then?

lunch

Isn’t that what you just did to me? So I guess that makes you a lot like Obama huh?

TheBigOldDog on July 30, 2008 at 2:29 PM

That’s a great point if could follow it. I’m too hungry now. I’ll return post-lunch and maybe make more sense then…probably not.

I appreciate your thoughtful and vigorous disagreement.

I invite you to show me once where I have been hypocritical on that issue and where I once defended Jesse Helms in my entire life. You really ought to have at least some evidence before you accuse people of hypocrisy.

Before you go getting all butthurt, read what I wrote. I cite your comment but do not directly implicate you as hypocritical. If you feel that way, don’t blame me.

Your comment highlighted a point I was making. I stand by my comment that many Republicans are full of shit on the race issue. I don’t know if you’re one of many or independently annoying.

Call me crazy but when you go to a church preaching racism for 20 years I’m going to think you’re a racist too.

That is a perfectly safe and sane assumption.

When you call your own Grandmother a, “typical white person

I’ve been described by many whites, including friends and family, as not typically black or “not like other blacks.” I know many whites who use similar phrasings about many blacks. Are these people racist too?

Fact is that the past several years have been comical in that many of the types of accusations against which I have defended white Republicans are now being used by those same people.

I think that many Republicans apply standards to other which when applied to themselves, would fail miserably. It’s all the rage. Deny it if you must. But we have a race problem in our country; Republicans are part of country. Right?

We can call it “their” problem and point to Bush’s cabinet as exculpatory evidence of Republican color-blindness. But it’s still the same old crap.

You don’t like it? Too bad. I call them the way I see them but unlike you, I at least have some evidence for my accusations.

Slow down BigDog. This ain’t your puppy’s pissing match. I don’t mind your comments. I find them interesting if not predictable.

My remarks stand as they are. Yours lie where you spilled them.

Have any examples of his accusing “anyone who refuses to agree with his opinion” as racist?

That would really make your case. Without citing specifics, you sound a lot like Obama.

The Race Card on July 30, 2008 at 2:18 PM

Here let me introduce you to Obama, the racist:

The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know there’s a reaction that’s been been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that’s just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it..

And these gems:

“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!”

‘I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’

“I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother?s race.”

“There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.”

“I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela.”

All of those words from his book Dreams of my Father…
Do you want more?

Without citing specifics, you sound a lot like Obama.

The Race Card on July 30, 2008 at 2:18 PM

Isn’t that what you just did to me? So I guess that makes you a lot like Obama huh?

because he throws the “racist” accusation at anyone who refuses to agree with his opinion he meets the qualification of a racial bigot

Have any examples of his accusing “anyone who refuses to agree with his opinion” as racist?

That would really make your case. Without citing specifics, you sound a lot like Obama.

Keep it up, McCain!

To believe that Obama is truly a racist, but then not find fault with Jesse Helms is a feat. Many Republicans have proved that such mental and moral contortions come quite easily.

The Race Card on July 30, 2008 at 1:40 PM

I invite you to show me once where I have been hypocritical on that issue and where I once defended Jesse Helms in my entire life. You really ought to have at least some evidence before you accuse people of hypocrisy.

Call me crazy but when you go to a church preaching racism for 20 years I’m going to think you’re a racist too.

When your mentor growing up is Frank Marshall Davis, and he, “plied his impressionable guest with liberal doses of whiskey and advice, including: Never trust the white establishment” I’m going to think you’re a racist. When you call your own Grandmother a, “typical white person” I’m going to think there’s an excellent chance you’re a racist. You don’t like it? Too bad. I call them the way I see them but unlike you, I at least have some evidence for my accusations.