I just saw Obama's new commercial, and I'm pumped. They show McCain and a voice tells you the guy doesn't know how many houses he has. Then a line of script on the screen says "He owns seven houses." Then some more stuff about how out of touch he is - - he thinks anyone making less than $5 million is middle class. Then the voice says "McCain says the economy is strong. Maybe it is for folks like him. How is it for YOU?"
This stuff is good. They asked about the housing gaffe on Leno and McCain starts blabbing about his days in jail as a war criminal, he didn't have a house then, he didn't even have a bed or a table, and he wasn't going through this for a house. Frankly I think it went over like a lead balloon. Folks are starting to get wise to his phony tales of woe in a POW camp. No matter what you ask this guy about, he'll find a way to turn the conversation to his "suffering" in the POW camp and it's starting to wear a bit thin.
And now I have a sense the attacks are just starting to sharpen up. Saw one with that song "Don't know much about history . . . " I think it's a Sam Cook song. The one where the student doesn't seem to know much about anything except pussy. they play it with rewritten words, "Don't know much about the price of gas, don't know what happened to the Middle Class" and on one side of the screen, some of McCain's more moronic quotes, like the one where he admits to knowing jack-shit about the economy, so at the end of the clip, you gotta believe this guy is a fucking moron.
I really have the feeling this morning, Obama's gonna find his groove. Saw some re-runs of Michelle's convention speech and I thought it was great. Up to now, Obama's been letting the right-wing crazies define him, and they had a field day. He was "inexperienced," his wife was "unpatriotic" and he himself (gasp!! ) didn't wear a flag pin! ! ! eeeeek!! Plus the most ludicrous and absurd charge of all, he was "elitist." But last night, he came into focus, Michelle first, defining him, prepping the audience for his speech. But Michelle really paved the way. Through her eyes - - and she is so obviously home-spun American, all this "elitist" crap just blew away in the wind, the "elitist" husband and father (versus that cheating little weasel, McCain) the all-American success stories of two people who made it all on their own, without descending from a long line of slave-holders and admirals or beer baron crooks. So I think people got a sense of cognitive dissonance - - here are the folks painted by conservatives on talk shows, in crudely-drawn cartoons, in chat groups, by right-wing radio hosts, as weird, un-American, poisonous alien strains and yet they see with their own eyes a couple of attractive, loving, well-adjusted and smart people, good parents of two lovely girls (what do the McCains produce, Barbie dolls and robotic stone-faced killers?) - - anyway, its the contrast between "See for yourself" and the Republican lies that their media churn out by the millions. You know, this time reality is gonna win!! Obama's rough times are over.
