Mccain escalates dirty attacks, 'Race Card' accusation - shows comtempt for Obama

"I have great admiration and respect for Senator Obama." If so, McCain has a funny way of showing it. All we've seen and heard from him for the last month is a string of personal attacks, culminating in yesterday's ad smearing Obama as "the biggest celebrity in the world." He's just another famous, pretty face, in other words, and not ready for the presidency.
True? No. Childish? Yes. But that's not all. This ad is also deliberately and deceptively racist. Of all the famous celebrities they could have compared Obama to, why not Tom Cruise? Or Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Donald Trump, or Oprah Winfrey? Why Britney Spears and Paris Hilton? Why two white blond bimbos?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-press/john-mccain-plays-the-rac_b_116042.html
McCain campaign has been pushing for the last few weeks that Obama is presumptuous, arrogant and well ... just a bit uppity. Ron Fournier picked the ball up early in his reporting for the AP. And John King was pushing it over the weekend on CNN. Is it arrogant or above Obama's station for him to meet with the Chairman of the Federal Reserve? If I'm not mistaken he is a sitting United States senator and also the presidential candidate of the Democratic party. Such meetings are actually the norm.

Now, I note that the Post, which has generally been in McCain's camp, has a front page story today that comes about as close as they feel able to confirming that McCain campaign and McCain personally have spent most of the last week peddling what they knew was a lie about Obama's called-off trip to the US military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. And there's also this piece in today's Times noting 'concern' among some Republicans over McCain's increasing use of personal attacks on Obama with what are often demonstrably false claims. How many demonstrable lies does the McCain campaign have to push before it colors the portrayal of his campaign?

As I alluded to at the top of this post, it is the norm that obvious campaign tactics that are treated as obvious after a campaign is over are nonetheless treated by most reporters as ambiguous or unclear during a campaign. But in this case it would be nice if that were not the case. Because here we have a candidate, John McCain, who is running on a record of straight talk and honorable campaigning running a campaign made up mainly of charges reporters are now more or less acknowledging are lies. But there's precious little drawing together of the contradiction. What's more, as everyone will acknowledge after the campaign, the McCain campaign is now pushing the caricature of Obama as a uppity young black man whose presumptuousness is displayed not only in taking on airs above his station but also in a taste for young white women.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/206241.php
Berlin was less, it seems to me, about the celebrity of Obama than about the disaster of Bush-Cheney. Obama is the vehicle for the world's hope for the return of the America they remember.) But the flipside of this kind of success is always an attempt to take the dude down a few pegs and I can't get too worked up about that. Of course a candidate being greeted the way Obama was in Europe will prompt a raspberry from the back-row when he gets back home. I don't see anything that awful about that. It's actually quite healthy in a democracy.

Still, it also had the hallmarks of the usual boomer dust-ups. The arrogant-celebrity meme is a variation on the usual Rovian fare: empty of actual policy substance but evocative of playground loyalties and resentments. Basically, McCain called Obama a girl, to appeal to the jocks, and then called him arrogant to flatter the nerds.

Paris Hilton is a two-fer. Choosing a female celebrity is integral to the usual attempt to feminize the Democrat. I could see nothing racist whatever in the message, mind you, but it was, as Weaver noted, pretty asinine.

Less asinine was McCain's two-pronged lie that Obama would rather lose a war than a campaign and that he snubbed injured troops in Germany. The former is repulsive and you can tell McCain knows it because he has a weird habit of saying it and then grinning broadly and humming a little to himself as a semi-laugh. He doesn't own the statement even as he says it. The charge itself is about as uncivil as it is possible to be, close to calling Obama treasonous, right? And the troop snub jibe is simply, demonstrably untrue, as the McCain camp was forced to semi-concede.

So McCain's main moves these past two weeks have been either childish or disgusting, and both times he has signaled he didn't really believe his own message. He doesn't seem like a serious president to me.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/how-shitty-was.h...

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[politicalfarce]

This is so going to backfire on McCain. There are a lot of dumb people in America, and they will fall fo this crap, but there are also a lot of smart people who will see through this. Times are hard enough that people are going to really think before voting, and that's the last thing McCain wants. Unfortunately for him, he can't do anything about it.

[cosmlayla]

McCain is a slime.

[tazztt1]

Vid: Aug 2008... What these idiots don't understand is that a seasoned war Vet like McCain knows an enemy when he see one.

This post: August 2011... He saw the state of this Nation LONG before it came to be this way.

[soastonishme]

McCain is a completely spent force. Move on, he has nothing of relevance to say.

[eali2001]

McCain is human filth.

[arslp]

@PicciProductions

What a pity that the American public voted for a "celebrity" instead of an experienced statemen. BO is the most inept and pathetic attempt at a president in modern history. He was never a good senator. Most of the uneducated that voted for him never even knew he had a 29% voting record as a senator. You didn't did you, obamazombies?

[rockandroll1110]

i agree,obama IS a celebrity not a good president.

[rockandroll1110]

obama won by being a kissass,he has never served this country,and he doesn't even admit to the fact that he is half white,also,his mother raised him,not his father,so,shouldn't he naturally want to be proud of his white half.he only just started supporting troops,he had the AMERICAN FLAG removed from the tail of a plane and replaced with "yes we can",who would be so dumb as to vote for a candidate that removes the symbol of the very country he wants to hold office in???

[PicciProductions]

Obama IS a celebrity. He is not a good president.

[menana2u]

What would you have said if Obama lost? Obama's negative ads were 3-1 against McCain's to him. There were many things that Obama needed to talk about, which he never did. Many things left unopened, and unanswered. Naby shady characters, whcih we never did learn about. Then he would call "foul" when someone picked on him. Give me a break. Too bad we have to see up front how he will destroy this country. God help and be with us all! MSNBC, SUX and so does Andrea Mitchell. She should be ashamed!!

[EasyToRememberr]

Hahahaha, I like how you say GrandmasterMelleMel is being a hypocrite.... then you call Obama a chimp!

P.S. - Obama won.

[GrandmasterMelleMel]

yeah...that's because McCain's ugly face resembles my a**s cheeks when I fart - and his mouth resembles my b*tt hole when I sh*t - picture that!!!