Prominent Liberal Blogger Says Britney Ad Implies Obama Has a "Taste for Young White Women"

Yeah try to play it off as "backfiring."

The nervous laughter from the Obritney camp isn't convincing anyone. The commercial is devastatingly effective.

McCain has pulled within a point of Obritney in national polling. That translates to bad, bad news for The One.

I suspect next week will have a MAJOR McSame campaign shake down, and anyone who has their fingerprints on the stupid Britney ad will be long gone. They will linger in the backwater limbo of Haglee and Phil Graham. This commercial was like manna from heaven for Obama, he played it as a joke (at McSame's expense), and the audiences howled with laughter at several campaign stops.
wait until Late Night comics rip into MCNasty...yikes, they'll have weeks of material to toss at him.

I hear a bit of protestething too much from the Obama fans.

This ad will be the turning point in the campaign. Bye BamBam.

The endless passive agression of liberals finds its apex in Obama. "How dare you say that!" "How dare you mock him!" How DARE YOU!!"

If you criticize him, you're a racist. If you're skeptical about global warming, you're a "denier" (With obvious connotations about other sorts of deniers.)

Liberals need to have the equivalent of human shields in front of their candidates and their ideas. This of course to make debate on the merits thereof off limits.

Because their people and their ideas don't generally withstand the withering of scrutiny.

Just as the cult of global warming is starting to melt due to exposure to the bright light of skepticism, so too must we take a damn good look at Obambi.

I will say this about him though: No one ever said nothing-at-all quite as well as he has.

But a true warrior vs. a dapper metrosexual?

No contest. Of course, he will absolutely garner the dapper metrosexual vote in huge numbers.

I'm an air force veteran. I used to respect John McCain.

I no longer do. I'm sick of the bait and switch political ad campaigns, and the snide insinuations.

This veteran is enthusiastically voting for Barack Obama. It is indeed time for a change.

A "dog whistle" is a whistle that cannot be heard by humans but is easily heard by dogs. An ad such as this which pairs two sexy, etc. young white women with a young, powerful black man is simply a political ad to most of us, with no racial subtext. To a racist, however, it's a flashing red beacon light, reminding them of the very strong, emotional reasons they do not want Obama to be president. ---- So it is ... and it isn't ... racist, depending on what is already in the mind of the person seeing it. Was it intended to serve as a dog-whistle to those racists who can be motivated to vote against Obama? There is no way to know for sure - I guess that depends on what was in the mind of the person putting the ad together ... and the level of that person's knowledge about subliminal cues and such things. ------------ And for the record, Obama did not say that McCain or his campaign was racist. He was speaking about Republicans opposed to his candidacy, and you don't have to go any further than the TN GOP to see the accuracy of that.

I was a McCain volunteer in 2000. A fact that I currently find embarrassing. Turns out that John McCain is not half the man I thought him to be. This Navy Vet is for Obama.

McCain's campaign is playing dogwhistle politics. Code words, subliminal images, and misleading characterizations.
How can anyone consider him a "straight talker"?

John Sidney McCain is stuck in the past and will do anything he can to deflect attention from his tired and pathetic non-record of legislation.
The Republican base, as always, foams at the mouth and at the corporate trough.
Look at the photo of him grasping George W. Bush like Bush was his savior and Bush's arms are raised to heaven. You talk about presumptuous.
McCain has no solutions and no dreams, at least not ones that aren't colored by whatever sedatives they are giving him.

"Will they get to nominate their RW activists for the Supreme Court?"

As opposed to the LW activists BHO will nominate? Republicans are trying to get Pelosi and Reid to do something about gas prices and they run away. They claimed Iraq was lost too. BHO was with them all the way so why do we need a Dem Prez?

Anyone surprised that this is just another typical Republican campaign? The last thing they want to do is talk about the issues effecting the American public.

Will they get away with again? Will we get another 4 years of Republican control of the WH, DoJ, EPA, GAO, FCC,et al? Will they get to nominate their RW activists for the Supreme Court? Those are the real issues and that's why the Republicans are happy to make Obama the object of their smears. It deflects the conversation from the real issues why we need a Democrat elected as President.

I'm very curious to know whether we will ever be told what John McCain plans to as President. So far, it seems his primary plan is to not be Barack Obama. It worked for George Bush in 2004, who ran on a platform of not being John Kerry and won that election. Still, I wonder how long the GOP can continue to run campaigns like this.

I love it when people bash Jimmy Carter, the same man who as President made an executive order that from 1980 on the United States could no longer increase their dependance on foreign oil but the order was overturned the moment Reagan came to power, who really had the long term strategic interests in mind? I also love hearing McCain supporters whine about how Obama won't debate him in a town hall, just keep whinning it's great, it's mcCain's new slogan there nothing I won't whine about.

"IF OBAMA WINS, WE'LL JUST HAVE ANOTHER JIMMY CARTER IN THE WHITE HOUSE..."

And if McCain wins, we'll have another George Bush in the White House, and the rich will continue drowning the middleclass in the black water of their greed; the United States will never again raise its head above water.

"They didn't, because Britney and Paris better epitomize vapid and immoral."

So explain the racist angle. Poptarts are poptarts. The press calls him a rock star so why not use that?

Of course, so many of BHO's supporters claim racism about ANY criticism no one should be surprised this time.

For all of OBAMA's Brew Ha-ha, he has nothing locked up. In fact, McCain's gaining on him accoring to the polls and stories out lately. OBAMA needs to get away from the "I'm great" mode and turn to the substance mode before he loses. This technique he is using was Hillary's too remember. She got crushed by substance. If McCain keeps pressing, OBAMA will lose and look like a fool.

What's wrong with a political candidate drawing crowds? Isn't it refreshing that so many people have become interested in finding the right person to run our country? Seems to me that a political candidate being a "celebrity" is a positive thing.

Josh Marshall, and bloggers like him, provide a source of information to people who are unwilling to subject their news to the profit targets of America's largest corporations.

Obama will win this thing in a walk and the dems will pick up 20 House seats and 10 in the Senate, thus allowing them to cut Lieberman loose.

I assume every conservative who has decided that Obama has done nothing to deserve the presidency has read his policy statements, researched his legislative history, and held Bush up to the same judgment: What did he do as governor of Texas that qualified him to be president? Why isn't McCain bothering to tell us in HIS ads what he intends for America? What makes him qualified--besides being a POW? I read his policies and pay attention to his statements. That's how I can tell he has no idea what to do--he changes his positions and blurts out inconsistencies so often that his own aides disavow his statements as not representing his own campaign. If McCain could draw 200,000 people, would that automatically make him an "empty suit"?