05:03 pm
McCain, Britney, American Idol & FOREIGN Oil
Here’s the new McCain commercial.
Britney, Paris… and Obama??? Oh no you din’t, John McCain! Snap!
Clearly, McCain’s campaign team has concluded that popularity and celebrity are negatives that they can exploit. Because you know, Presidents aren’t “popularly” elected or anything. That’s what the electoral college is for!
This is just further proof of how disconnected the McCain campaign is. Do they not realize that people in this country love celebrity and popularity contests? Do they not read People? Have they never watched American Idol? Are they even aware of it? It’s on Fox, people. It’s not like you would have to change channels or anything.
But something else about this ad bothers me a whole lot more than the constant whinging about Obama’s popularity. Watch the commercial again; let it play until the 0:23 mark and then freeze the image.
See how the word “foreign” is in bold and caps? See how close it is to Obama’s image? Yes, the word “oil” is there too, but… do you really think that putting that particular word right next to Obama’s image was accidental?
John McCain apparently has decided that his best path to victory is to adopt strategies last used when Millard Fillmore ran on the Know-Nothing Party ticket in 1854. Perhaps McCain has fond memories of that election from his childhood.
John McCain: The American President nativists have been waiting for. And Idol fans haven’t.
Image from Wikipedia, used under a GNU Free Documentation License.
UPDATE: It’s my understanding that this is the first time ever that Millard Fillmore and Britney Spears have been linked romantically.