McCain's Ad Against Obama

Here is an ad from McCain's folks "attacking" Barack Obama. What are your thoughts on this? Is it fair? Is it effective? Will people enamoured with Obama see the problem? Or is the saying love is blind true? I think the video clips are scary for someone wanting to lead the country because he has such a high view of himself. I am all for having confidence in yourself, but I am not sure electing him will cause the planet and environment to begin to heal.

Related: Here's a story on rapper Ludacris' recent song slamming the President, John McCain, and hillary Clinton.

“Hillary hated on you, so that b—- is irrelevant. … McCain don’t belong in
any chair unless he’s paralyzed. Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally
handicapped,” Ludacris sings.

I do not think the McCain ad attacks. This song, I think does. I am sickened and saddened by the recent shift of people to openly trash the President. You did not see this level of hatred for Clinton by folks on the right during the height of the impeachment hearings.

Related: here's Obama's recent statement about race.

Obama, who will be the first black presidential nominee from a major party,
was asked by a reporter Wednesday at a rally in Missouri to respond to growing
criticism that he has become presumptuous about the November election and is
acting prematurely presidential.

Obama replied that McCain and President Bush have little else to offer voters than scare tactics to maintain the GOP’s hold on the White House.

“Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me,” Obama said. “You know, ‘he’s not patriotic enough, he’s got a funny name,’ you know, ‘he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”‘

The problem is is that Obama is the only one who regularly brings up his race. (An aside-why are whites racist if they don't want to vote for him, but blacks are not racist for wanting to vote for him?--hint--this is a trick question[race for most is not the issue, his values and experience are]) Here is his campaign's response to what he really meant.

“What Barack Obama was talking about was that he didn’t get here after
spending decades in Washington,” Gibbs said. “There is nothing more to this than
the fact that he was describing that he was new to the political scene. He was
referring to the fact that he didn’t come into the race with the history of
others. It is not about race.”

Um, I think that is a weak stretch. But you can decide if it is or isn't.

Till tomorrow,

Derrick