Breaking Out The Big Guns

This was the week when John McCain did "the full Rove," attacking Barack Obama relentlessly for being horrible things like "popular" and "appealing" and then crying like children when the other side notices what they're doing. They got all indignant that Obama said "the only way they figure they're going to win this election is if they make you scared of me. So what they're saying is, 'Well, we know we're not very good but you can't risk electing Obama. You know, he's new, he's... doesn't look like the other presidents on the currency, you know, he's got a, he's got a funny name.'" In fact they did create an ad with Obama replacing Ben Franklin on the $100 bill.

But this final one is the most bitter yet, taking all kinds of quotes out of context, making an "argument" the way a snickering high-schooler would.



I think the craziest thing about this is the projection that Obama is representing himself as "The One." As far as I know, he doesn't open his town hall meetings with a video like this:

John McCain has the film. At many of his events, his campaign sets up a screen and plays for the crowd a three-minute film called "Service with Honor," telling the story of McCain's more than five years of captivity in a North Vietnamese prison after his Navy plan was shot down in 1967. As sonorous music plays in the background, McCain's mother Roberta recounts her reaction on hearing of his capture, images of McCain in captivity are flashed on screen, and two fellow POW's describe his comportment. "He was offered early release and he told 'em to shove it," says one, Paul Galanti. "He has been there, he's done that, he's been miserable he's been tortured, beaten to a pulp and yet he still comes up with that patented McCain smile."

McCain himself concludes the film with these words: "The only reason I am here today is because I believe a higher being has a mission for me and my life."

Talk about presumptuous.

Whether or not this is working, I can't say. I do know that this election has hit the completely stupid season, and there's no telling whether anyone will help us out of it. Certainly the media is lapping it up.