This is going to be so much fun:
With all that stacked against him, the only road that could take McCain to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the low road, one of the few pieces of infrastructure left in good repair by President Bush. His father paved it against Michael Dukakis, George W. Bush repaved it running against John Kerry, and the GOP repainted the dotted line in now-Senator Bob Corker’s 2006 contest with Harold Ford. The path to success for McCain is to make the election a referendum on his opponent, by working in silent concert with 527 groups and media outlets such as Fox News to pursue character assassination, guilt by association, and, most of all, the effort to paint Obama as different, foreign, unlike “us,” and dangerous (and did I mention that he’s black?). […]
Under other circumstances, such simple turns of phrase might mean little. But these aren’t other circumstances. Barack Obama has been the target of a concerted smear campaign that tells a consistent story: that he is a Muslim, that he attended an anti-American madrassa as a child, that he refuses to put his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance, that he took his oath of office to the Senate with his hand on the Koran, and that he hates Israel. Beginning in late 2006, conservative talk show hosts and commentators like Ann Coulter were calling him “B. Hussein Obama,” images on the Internet were morphing Obama into Osama, and commentators were raising questions about his patriotism.
These subterranean messages took a substantial toll. When I was doing focus groups with swing voters in the early winter, nearly half of every group we met with would either assert confidently or wonder aloud whether Obama was a Muslim or didn’t believe in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Awesome.
June 23, 2008 at 3:25 pm
It’s all gonna be so groovy.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
http://electoralmap.net/index.php
June 23, 2008 at 4:46 pm
“He says he isn’t a Muslim but I don’t believe him.”
Ooo…kay.
June 23, 2008 at 5:29 pm
>>“He says he isn’t a Muslim but I don’t believe him.”
>Ooo…kay.
I experienced that one myself, plus the <> bit. She wouldn’t even accept he was Christian, given 20 years of attending the same church. I think it really will take her Marine son to go to Iraq and come back with a tag on his toe for her to see the bill of goods she’s selling herself.
June 23, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Sorry, the text between the angular brackets was about the _he doesn’t put his hand over his heart during the pledge of allegiance_ bit.
June 23, 2008 at 7:17 pm
“He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”
Also, it is the 1950s and we are all rich. Also this sounds awesome.
June 23, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Also, why is Barack Obama’s cigarette talking?
June 23, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Plus he eats puppies. Live ones. “Senator Obama, is it true that you’re trying to stop eating puppies?”
June 24, 2008 at 8:59 am
Of course, he says he doesn’t eat puppies. But I don’t believe him. I believe he does eat puppies.
It’s called “the gift of faith.”
June 24, 2008 at 10:05 am
He should change “Hussein” to “Airwolf”.
June 25, 2008 at 3:03 pm
why is Barack Obama’s cigarette talking?
I wanna know why it’s leaning against a wall.
Stand up straight and fly right, Mister Cigarette. Yeah, that’s right. I’m looking at you.
June 26, 2008 at 10:41 pm
“He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”
Obama is Dean Martin?
July 1, 2008 at 10:00 pm
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