Obama: McCain is the Celeb

McCain is a celebrity, at least to certain close friends:
His oil buddies keep him screaming for offshore drilling.
He loves the war machine as they employe residents of Arizona (Apache)
He has no solar or wind friends . . . .
The common “Joe American” is no friend either, I guess . . . .

I never thought of it before but McCain is a big celebrity. It seems odd for him to attack someone else with that label.

Let’s just face it, McCain is nothing more than another Shrub-style oil puppet. And rather than run on issues, or present proposals that have real meaning to folks, McCain will just rattle on about Paris Hilton, tire gauges, and whatever else his handlers stick before his addled face.
McCain is the perfect metaphor for the GOP this year. Old, out of ideas, and flogging the same crap as last time.

You all should stop drinking the kool-aid . . . Seriously, I agree with David NH on this. Obama had potential, before we knew anyhting about him, when you all sober up yous hould come to terms that he is a 1st term senator that wants to raise your taxes . . .

From The Joker: McShame, McBushie, McCane….maybe he should audition for the role of “God” in the remake of George Burns’ last great movie. No wait, George was playing “Give Me MyCane.”

McCain … Obama … the campaigns. Name-calling and mediocrity. That’s where our consumer selves have put ourselves. We over indulge and bought ourselves a Hobson’s choice.
I guess the best hope is Obama’s inexperience. He may muddle it up enough to do a little house cleaning and make a few good decisions. The entrenced McCain has been around too long to do anything right, accidental or not.

This is all such stupidity.
The campaign managers on both sides have taken the most important process in our governmental system to the lowest of lows. If one did not know better one could plausibly come to the conclusion that we are attempting to elect a kindergarten hall monitor instead of a president of the country.
As an “old” FDR Democrat I find it completely unbelievable that Obama is the best the party has to offer. This young man is nothing more than a product of the “Chicago political machine” with absolutely no experience whatsoever. 144 days in the US Senate qualifies him for what?
The Republicans are just as bad – surely they have someone younger than McCain to represent their side. He is an honorable man but at 72 has no business taking on this task if elected.
Our political process has sunk to the lowest of lows.

McCain always invites a fight… but like Bush… he doesn’t have the facts, the cool, the stamina, or the intelligence to back it up. It’s like when he dared Obama to go to Iraq… and now the Iraqi government backs Obama’s plan! Or how the GOP wants to try to tar Obama with the Edwards affair (because everybody knows, but nobody really wants to talk about how the GOP ran multiple adulterers in the primary, but managed to pick the one who is actually married to the mistress he picked up while cheating on his sick wife.) The GOP is showing itself to be impulsive and foolish, valuing cheap points over the long game.
McCain slaps Obama with the crap celebrity ad. Obama waits, gives him a chance to reconsider, then nails him with a haymaker. This ad is so true! And it’s actually substantial.
The best thing about Obama is that he is a chess player. Bush and McCain are blustery hot heads, who love to pick fights that they cannot finish, that they want someone else to fight, that they have to run away from. Meanwhile, a guy like Obama, who isn’t ruled by his emotions, can wait, and then make the right move, when it counts.
McCain can be manipulated very easily, especially if he gets mad or starts feeling jealous. He makes mistakes. He loses control. He thinks things should go his way because he’s McCain.
I am so sick of having a teenage boy in the White House. And I can’t stand the thought of having another emotional adolescent (this time trapped in the body of an old man) calling the shots.
It is going to be great to have someone level-headed in the White House. Obama is really showing his strength in the campaign. No matter how hard McCain hectors him, Obama doesn’t get distracted. It’s great.

McCain started calling Obama “celebrity” – I don’t see the point of it at all. Anyone in politics has celebrity status (name in news) and many crave it – especially the recent crop of Repubs (Gingrich, Lott, etc) except Cheney (though he got it when he shot his hunting buddy). Now Obama picks it up after Paris Hilton’s throwback at McCain – they’re all acting like children. Maybe this is the way their advisors think they can avoid having a negative campaign (by slingly diaper poop instead of mud). One has to vote for the lesser cornball too often these days and since McCain started this game, I’ll have to vote for Obama (actually I was going to vote against McCain/Bush before). Mostly I was surprised to see McCain, the POW survivor, act like a little brat instead of retired military personnel – it’s more than a flippant turnaround, the guy is disintegrating before our eyes.

Re: Zagg’s comment on Obama has no experience and no original thought. I agree w/the first but disagree w/the later. Haven’t you heard of his new method to announce his VP? “Sign up to be a member on the Obama’s website” and you’ll be one of the first to know before the announcement.”… “oh, and pass the news around to your friends and family to sign up to be the first”.
lol, I don’t know what everyone thinks, but I think it’s hilariously silly.
Obama = Hollywood politics as usual.

Isn’t it lovely that Obama’s celebrity is so powerful that people have to “admit” to not supporting him, as if there is something wrong with that? This is the oppressive stuff “people’s revolutions” are built on. I hope America’s weathly are investing in safe-rooms, and the not-so wealth are prepared for lots and lots of govnmt cheese.

This story is not definitely news worthy! Why does the news media print such trash?
Whether you are a Liberal, Conservative, Republican, Democrat or some other denomination it does not really matter… Folks, are we are looking at the “best” candidates this country has to offer? Almost 300 million people and Obama and McCain represent the cream? I hope not… If this is the case, then it’s time to toss the cream out because it stinks.
Like many Americans, I am tired of the same ol’ deception and lies we are spoon fed by politicians claiming to be on our side when in fact they are in it for themselves. Why is it that when people enter politics they would be considered part of middle class but after a number of years in office they become millionaires? Answer: Shady investment deals, payoffs, incentives, campaign contributions, etc.
Obama is playing off the emotions of the people who want to see change in the government when in fact his is almost powerless to change anything without the consensus of the same congress that put us here in the first place. McCain may be closer to a “typical” politician. If you look at his voting record for yourself, you’ll see that he doesn’t really lean entirely one way or another. I don’t agree with him on some of the issues and as a result I do not find him an ideal candidate either.
I believe it is time for a change. The Republican and Democrat parties need to be disbanded. If they were companies our government would break them up and cite them as being monopolistic, however when they are part of the problem nothing will change.
No matter who is elected, four more years of the same thing.

“lol, I don’t know what everyone thinks, but I think it’s hilariously silly.”
Actually that is effective if you understand the goal. Pelosi’s Amazing Money Machine uses the Internet as one source of funding. After a number of cycles, it begins to dry up and it needs a massive infusion of new email addresses. This is a slick way to get people to give up a bit of anonymity for fifteen nanoseconds of being the first in the know, or so they believe. Actually, the press releases and the usual leaks to the loyal resources will be prepared before anyone is near the send button.
But it will work and it will increase the value of the mailing list. That list has more value post-election even if Obama loses given it can be sold to all down ticket campaigns or traded for favors.
It’s a smart use of his celebrity status.

Actually…what “history” clearly shows is that FDR’s policies made things much WORSE…and they will do the same in today’s world.

I am so sorry this is soooo funny. I can’t stop laughing. That music just made Panama Mac look so old. It’s almost mean. This could backfire on Obama as being mean and making fun of an old man. And the point of “lurching” like McCain lurches cause he is injured from war injuries? Damn I don’t even support Panama Mac over O’Bama but this is just wrong but sooo funny. Personaly the going back and forth between the right and the left is not the old washington game it is the game Obama says he wants to play to move things foward and has played by giving illegal wire tappers immunity and leveraging on the waste and the dangers of off-shore drilling. Stick to clean coal and nuclear energy if you want to go right. Stay out of our waves dude.

Also, while it is true “middle class” numbers have shrunk since’ 80…you might also notice that poverty levels ALSO shrunk, and more people became “rich”. The point? People don’t need government cheese (Barakie) to improve their lives, and the “middle class squeeze” is a fear-mongering myth used to drive the production of more government cheese (i.e. Washington power ).
“In other words, if the middle class in America has shrunk, it is only because so many formerly middle-class households have moved to the upper-income brackets, while a significant number of households previously in the lower brackets have moved up to the middle class and beyond.
The solid economic growth of the past two decades has indeed lifted all kinds of household boats. By the most basic measure of real household income, a broad swathe of Americans are better off than they were 25 years ago—thanks to growth fueled in good measure by lower marginal tax rates, expanding trade, and a more flexible domestic economy.”

Rational American: The greatest growth of our Federal Govt and resulting debt occurred during the 8 years GW Bush was in office. McCain, as a senior member of the Senate GOP majority for 6 of those 8 years, did nothing to stop any of it.
And this includes a 2009 deficit of half a trillion dollars.
The notion that somehow the GOP has held back both govt growth and spending is a laughable and discredited canard.
Nice that you’re covering the New Deal era here, but there are events of a far more recent date that should be paid attention to here as well.

Oh, I can’t argue against the GOP becoming fiscally irresponsible, and even anti-free-market (I really don’t like Bush or McCain much)….however, Barakie doesn’t offer anything other than the same irresponsibility colored with meaningless bromides like “Hope” and “Change”, and his economic policy prescriptions are simply worse.

Get a clue. I’m voting for McCain and talking to everyone I know about him as well. I won’t put a bumper sticker for him on my Lexus; however, because I’ve personally seen how nasty Obama supporters can be – both on and offline – and don’t want to pay for a new paint job because of Obama’s attempt to create class warfare to get votes. Trust me; McCain will have plenty of votes come November; in fact, I’m sure he’ll have more than enough!

Well, it looks like Obama painted himself into another corner with this ad. Now there is no way for him to chose an experienced person for his running mate. He has to chose another novice with zero national experience, just like himself, at a time when the world is erupting in war. That’s not very good judgment, is it? Two rookies in office while Russia and China are invading their neighbors.
Also, Obama is a “Chicago Celebrity”, and Chicago politics are much worse than Washingtons.

McCain’s so confused he tried to portray Obama as the celebrity, despite the fact that it’s McCain that has the extensive IMDB page. McCain should just go back to Arizona and take a nap.

In a counrty where very little is needed to create celebrity, I consider it a compliment to both candidates that they are gaining celebrity, notoriety, and are being talking points… it would be very sad if we all went to the polls in November and had NOT been wanting to see the candidates and hear what they had to say.

I think this ad is just going to remind people of Obamas friends and associates such as Rezko, Ayers, Wright and so on. Not to mention the fact that he himself has been on Ellen, the View, Tyra, all the late night talk shows as well as the tabloid talks like ET. I think it was a little dumb to put it out there and if McCain wanted to he could use the Friends theme and make one heck of a video about Obama.

Anyone read the “platform” of the Democrat’s. They are going to give money to everyone…..and I quote — they want to “Help those who have lost their way” …. so we all get GPS???
Where are they going to get all this money??? We become Socialists —- that’s how. No incentive to get ahead because BIG—BIG government will help you. How does a 50% tax rate sound??