Posted by
David Zublick on Sunday, August 03, 2008 6:00:22 PM
John McCain's latest campaign ads attacking
Barack Obama on his celebrity status and his messianic persona are hitting their marks.
Obama has helped to paint himself as the second coming of Jesus Christ...and now those chickens are coming home to roost.
His
arrogant, elitist attitude has struck even some of his most ardent
supporters as over-the-top. McCain, for his part, has up till now,
refrained from going after
Obama on his exaggerated sense of importance. Instead, he has preferred to paint
Obama
as just "not getting it" when it comes to such issues as the Iraq war,
negotiations with Iran over their nuclear ambitions and the energy
crisis. My sense is that McCain had hoped a series of
town hall style debates would reveal the truth about
Obama; that he is an empty suit being propped up by the likes of George
Soros and the
MoveOn.org
crowd, who wish to see their agenda pushed forward through the
coronation of a king rather than through a democratically held election
based on issues and ideas.
Since it would appear, however, that
Obama
is backing away from the formidable challenge that McCain would present
in an open forum style free-for-all, McCain has no choice but to go for
the jugular.
The more effective of the two ads is the one released this past Friday, presenting
Obama as "The One". It nails
Obama's
comparison to the Lord God, even pulling an excerpt from a speech in
which he says "a light will shine down from somewhere. It will light
shine upon you. You will experience an epiphany and you will say to
yourself 'I have to vote for
Barack'.
Talk about blasphemy.
In
any case, McCain can only hope that these ads resonate with
conservatives, moderates, independents and undecideds. The far left
have anointed
Obama their Savior, and the far right consider
Obama
the most dangerous candidate to ever run for president. But because the
conservatives don't feel McCain meets their criteria for the office,
they might just sit out this election, or vote for a third party
candidate in protest.
As some have stated, this election is not McCain versus
Obama. It's
Obama versus himself. And John McCain needs to point out the dangers of electing someone who fancies himself a god.
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