The McCain campaign has sunk to a new low with the ad below. Anyone thinking about voting for McCain has to look at this ad as an indication of how they regard the American public - they think we're stupid, and they're counting on it.
There's a great story about Lyndon Johnson when he was running for congress. He told his campaign manager to run an ad saying that his opponent fucks pigs. The campaign manager said, "we can't do that. Nobody would believe it." LBJ said, "I know. I just want to see him deny it."
That's what they're doing here. They know that the American public doesn't spend much time on detail. They operate on symbols. They've linked two powerful symbols here - a black man and sex. Let's get a black guy to deny that he's not teaching little kids about sex. This has Karl Rove written all over it.
If you're interested, here's an excerpt from the full story at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/mccain-ad-obamas-lone-edu_n_125205.html
In essence, Obama supported "age appropriate" sex-education for children as a means of teaching them what was proper or inproper touching, as well as to protect them against pedophiles, his campaign has said. Used in the context of the McCain campaign ad, however, Obama's stance becomes another one of those cultural issues that seems designed to alienate the Illinois Democrat from more socially moderate voters.
This approach worked for them against Kerry so they're trying it again. So far Obama is responding like Kerry which worries me. He suffers from the same malady as most Democrats - we're nice people who believe in fairness. I think that's going to change in the next few days, but in the meantime we need to get the facts to counteract the internet e-mails that will be forwarded.
If you want some more ammunition check out http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/mccain-ad-cites-articles_n_125218.html where you'll learn that the articles McCain sites in this ad are more critical of him than Obama.
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