You really have to watch this to appreciate how committed the McCainiacs are to their scorched-earth policy for courting the dumb-dumb vote. An hour or two ago, the McCain campaign posted a new web ad that leaps even further over the top in its denunciation of Barack Obama than the "Celebs" TV spot from earlier this week.
"The One" casts Obama as a self-made messiah, misquoting in the same terms as lazy WashPost-er Dana Milbank the Obama remark about becoming a symbol (the accurate quote’s here) and throwing in an unauthorized clip of Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments. "It should be known," the narrator intones at the start, "that in 2008, the world will be blessed. They will call him The One…"
It’s a close relative of "Celebs" in the distasteful, incredulous reaction it’s likely to elicit from bloggers and even mainstream pundits. Then again, like "Celebs," it’s not for that crowd. It’s for the more lumpen elements of the Christian extremist base. Who else is going to get worked up at the not just dubious but profoundly cheesy implication that Obama thinks he, like Chuck Heston, is capable of parting the Red Sea?
It’s stupid, coarse, dishonest and effective. As I said yesterday, Mark of Rove all the way.
Update: Ben Smith at Politico blogs Team Obama’s response: "sad… juvenile antics."
JohnMcCain.com: "The One" (1:13)
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Comment posted August 1, 2008 @ 10:50 am
Wait… is this supposed to make Obama look bad?
Comment posted August 1, 2008 @ 3:50 pm
Wait… is this supposed to make Obama look bad?
Comment posted August 1, 2008 @ 9:17 pm
My Grandmother is not senile nor does she have that one disease where you forget stuff…can't remember the name of it. Anyway, my Grandmother thinks Obama is the anti-christ…literally. Or wait, maybe she said the devil. I can't remember which one she said she thinks he is. But she truly believes it! She thinks he is an evil doer and comes from hell.
Comment posted August 2, 2008 @ 2:17 am
My Grandmother is not senile nor does she have that one disease where you forget stuff…can’t remember the name of it. Anyway, my Grandmother thinks Obama is the anti-christ…literally. Or wait, maybe she said the devil. I can’t remember which one she said she thinks he is. But she truly believes it! She thinks he is an evil doer and comes from hell.
Comment posted August 2, 2008 @ 12:14 pm
If my grandma was still with us, she'd be saying the same thing. I think for her it was more about subtle racism. She still distrusted Asian people because of all the anti Japanese newsreels she saw as a young adult. I know similar propaganda has been out about blacks as well. I think this group of people will be outdone by the sheer number of new people that Sen. Obama has brought into the process. All I can remember is that almost 400 people came to my precinct caucus. All but 60 of them voted for Obama!
Comment posted August 2, 2008 @ 5:14 pm
If my grandma was still with us, she’d be saying the same thing. I think for her it was more about subtle racism. She still distrusted Asian people because of all the anti Japanese newsreels she saw as a young adult. I know similar propaganda has been out about blacks as well. I think this group of people will be outdone by the sheer number of new people that Sen. Obama has brought into the process. All I can remember is that almost 400 people came to my precinct caucus. All but 60 of them voted for Obama!
Comment posted August 4, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
So this is how you reach right wing Christians? Impute hubris to your opponent, and then they all rush to you? Surely it's a little trickier. Tell me it is. Tell me the little string on their backs is harder to find, let alone to pull.
Comment posted August 5, 2008 @ 2:00 am
So this is how you reach right wing Christians? Impute hubris to your opponent, and then they all rush to you? Surely it’s a little trickier. Tell me it is. Tell me the little string on their backs is harder to find, let alone to pull.
Comment posted August 6, 2008 @ 7:21 am
Not hubris - but the literal Antichrist. This is awful. It's like they're courting some evil act.
Comment posted August 6, 2008 @ 12:21 pm
Not hubris - but the literal Antichrist. This is awful. It’s like they’re courting some evil act.
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