July 30, 2008

Is McCain's Campaign Centered Around Calling Obama Uppity?

First he was elitist, then arrogant, then presumptuous, and now he's a celebrity. Josh Marshall considers how this (thoroughly lame, though sadly all too predictable) campaign theme looks when one considers the color of Obama's skin.

Posted by armand at July 30, 2008 05:58 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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This morning, NPR reported on how McCain is calling out Obama for playing the race card, because yesterday Obama played his familiar riff about how the right is trying to scare voters with his funny name, and how he looks different.

The reporter had some windbag on, and the reporter pointed out that a) some on the right are pretty clearly playing on Obama's race as a negative, but then went on to say that b) McCain certainly has done no such thing, a proposition with which the windbag blithely agreed.

I flashed on this post, and Marshall's discussion, with which I wholeheartedly agree, and on cue the story turned to the celebrity ad, as though it's not playing on Obama's race whatsoever to a) call him a megacelebrity like that's bad in a Leader of the Free World, and b) choose as instances of celebrity two young blonde trainwreck starlets who are both far more famous for their (putative) sex appeal (and sexual misadventures, for that matter) than for any intrinsic talent.

I mean, say, in alterna-universe, the candidate is Edwards, who, like Obama, looks like the second coming next to doddering, heavily made up, clueless and clumsy McCain, and he goes round the world to much the same reception (because the whole world has a really strong interest in Not-Bush winning this election, and McCain doesn't look like Not-Bush to anyone with a few brain cells to rub together). Perhaps, in a similar tin-eared hail mary, McCain tries to sell the American public on the idea that no one loves a nuts and bolts guy, therefore someone being loved must not be a nuts and bolts guy. Does he do it by comparing Edwards to Britney and Paris specifically?

The whole thing is fishy as hell. And once again, the media have a threshold of f*&ked-upedness in their head, below which they're convinced McCain can't go, ergo, when he does, they simply can't acknowledge it.

Posted by: moon at August 1, 2008 10:07 AM | PERMALINK
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