The Cult Of The Amateur

The best political ads this season are coming from YouTubers - no question about it. Here are two examples, neither of which shift gears in the middle to give you bland slogans like "securing America's future" or "better jobs". They have a target and they attack it, beautifully.

Unfit to Lead, hard-hitting but entirely true:



And The Public vs. McCain, which puts the election into simple numerical truths.



For his part, McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds kind of replied to this ad with the hilariously lame statement “In the Senate, Barack Obama has voted in lockstep with President George W. Bush nearly half the time.”.

Yeah, uh, dude, "in lockstep" and "almost half the time" doesn't exactly match. This is also a replay of calling John Kerry a radical liberal AND a flip-flopper. You can't have both. Obama either is "in lockstep" with Bush or a socialist radical. Take your pick of broad-brush misstatements.