Political Quickie: Barack "Damien" Obama

2 Comments

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   BooMan on August 4, 2008 at 11:02 am

   I think the ad is unintentionally hilarious.

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   Zandar1 on August 4, 2008 at 2:30 pm

   Almost as funny as the meme that despite McCain running the worst campaign ever, Obama’s failure to be up by 20 points means Obama’s is even worse.

   It is really three factors at play: Obama has gotten worse, John McCain’s campaign has gotten more aggressive in pointing out that Obama has gotten worse and Obama is no longer talking about the issues which were underpinning that huge advantage Democrats were thought to enjoy.

   It’s the last point which has liberal supporters stumped. What happened to the laser-like focus on the economy? What happened to the non-stop message that John McCain is George W. Bush’s clone? These were lost in the audacity festival in Berlin and the aftermath of the trip (e.g. the soldier snub gaffe). But even before that, between the securing the nomination and the overseas trip, the major campaign storylines have been: Obama’s flip-flops, Wesley Clark slurring McCain, Hillary Clinton voters still upset, Obama’s repositioning (kind of) on Iraq, the success of the surge, and the faux seal and the arrogance meme.

   Where was there anything positive for Obama or any moment in which he was leading the policy discussion? In any other year the candidate who ceded the debate so dramatically would be losing. It’s a measure of how tough a year it is for Republicans that Obama is still effectively tied.

   The funny thing about nadirs is that it assumes that there’s an improvement afterward.