Nice, especially the last part with Wayne!

That's funny. lol!

Obama does not like being called a celebrity!

could the McCain actually pull it off and win?

Yes, he could.

LMAO! Loved the Wayne and Garth at the end. Perfect!

re: #4 noshariaincanada

could the McCain actually pull it off and win?

Yes, he could.

Yes He Can!

At a wedding recently, I asked someone at our table what Obama had going for him? This guy used to run a newspaper...

Know what he said?
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Obama is kewl!

B-HO is a goober. I like that little ad!

That's awesome! Omg..and the end is *brilliant* too! =) Loved it.

re: #6 galloping granny

Yes He Can!

Lol,
I actually rephrased it to read "yes he could" - my original was "yes he can". :P

A bumbersticker I saw today really summed it up for me.

World Peace: Vote Obama.

-All Praise The Dali Bama

love it

"He has soft eyes"

Ha, not quite the qualifications Lincoln ran on.

We're not worthy.

The edit of "never gonna give you up" with Obama is still the funniest thing I've seen this month.

re: #11 WrathofG-d

A bumbersticker I saw today really summed it up for me.

World Peace: Vote Obama.

-All Praise The Dali Bama

Those should really be called 'dumberstickers'.

re: #15 mbruce

The edit of "never gonna give you up" with Obama is still the funniest thing I've seen this month.

Do you have a link for that?

Obama is possibly (probably?) so self-inflated that being laughed at will be the deepest cut of all.

Makes me wonder if the McCain campaign is actually smarter than they've appeared so far.

re: #15 mbruce

I just got done seeing that like 4 minutes ago. Now it's stuck in my head. =)

LOL.

Soft Eyes.
Dreamy.

Too funny

re: #7 J.D.

At a wedding recently, I asked someone at our table what Obama had going for him? This guy used to run a newspaper...

Know what he said?
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Obama is kewl!

Not so very. Seen him try to dance? Definitely has not got the moves.

re: #7 J.D.

I had a similar experience with a family member who is very pro-obama. I told her I just hadn't seen much out of him as far as his positions go ( I was trying to be polite and not start a huge political fight). After saying this to her, there was an exceedingly pregnant pause- then the subject got changed. That spoke volumes to me.

Perfect. Great quotes from the mesmerized Obama fan base.

re: #17 J.D.

Do you have a link for that?

The "He has soft eyes!" comment made me spew on the monitor!

Hey, Tim Pawlenty gave a speach and said the right thing. Something many of us have been saying for years....that Republicans can't outspend the Democrats, so they need to give the taxpayers the most bang for their buck (hence the Sam's Club Republicans). Now J-Mac needs to hammer on that point. Talk about his work in the 1980's with Congressman Penny on trying to reign in spending. That sort of thing.

re: #14 BignJames

We're not worthy.

This is actually quite true. We're not worthy of obama. We're worthy of far better.

re: #21 galloping granny

Can't dance?
Oh, well. Everything else makes up for it, don't you think? *gag*

re: #21 galloping granny

Inhereted from the white side of his family.

Well, cute, for YouTube. I hope they don't waste time running it just like that on the teewee, it's too long for the style, should be cut into several 30-second spots.

And, um, did they mention the alternative, the product, McCain?

Cute enuf, but amateur.

re: #22 Sharmuta

I had a similar experience with a family member who is very pro-obama. I told her I just hadn't seen much out of him as far as his positions go ( I was trying to be polite and not start a huge political fight). After saying this to her, there was an exceedingly pregnant pause- then the subject got changed. That spoke volumes to me.

Did you see that he is publishing a book this fall outlining his positions on everything? It also includes a scrapbook of campaign pictures and all of his key speeches. I figure he is publishing it so he can refer to it in order to know what it is he thinks.

re: #22 Sharmuta

Well, I have a family member who always votes for the Democrat...and I mean always, but he will not vote for this one, I can assure you. He probably won't vote for McCain, either, but....that's OK!

re: #30 BignJames

Inhereted from the white side of his family.

Yes, I was thinking "White Men Can't Dance" as I wrote that - and as I watched the video.

When will accusations of racism be leveled?

Surely there is a subliminal message in there somewhere.

/

We're not Worthy!

re: #33 J.D.

Her husband is a republican who doesn't like McCain and was actually thinking of voting for obama. I think I'll have to have a chat with that one.

Star of the next Obama commercial.

re: #21 galloping granny

Not so very. Seen him try to dance? Definitely has not got the moves.

Half-white men can't dance.

Eh.....I'm not so impressed. It was kinda funny but it's on the same theme as the others. I think McCain should start running some more serious issue oriented ads.

OK Everyone -

This AD is Silly to say the least. Effective? - We shall see.

-S-

This is a perfect ad. It ridicules the fools who drool for Obama. Elections are decided by the undecided. If you've been sitting on the fence up till now, are you going to make up your mind today & vote for this clown?

Better yet, it undermines his network scheduled Convention Bounce!

re: #39 Alouette

Half-white men can't dance.

LOL

I said earlier he dances like my dad - who is 100% WASP and 72 years old.

re: #24 trailortrash

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

Hilarious! LOL

Thanks!

re: #34 galloping granny

Well, Ellen moved pretty well...for a white dude.

The "He has soft eyes!" comment made me throw up a little in my mouth.

re: #38 jcm

Star of the next Obama commercial.

Oh my goodness!

re: #31 itellu3times

Well, cute, for YouTube. I hope they don't waste time running it just like that on the teewee, it's too long for the style, should be cut into several 30-second spots.

And, um, did they mention the alternative, the product, McCain?

Cute enuf, but amateur.

YouTube is where it is at these days. Make enough noise and it becomes news, at which point the networks run it for free.

The whole point to the ad is that Obama is very upset over being called a celebrity. It is really throwing him & his campaign off his game. So here comes another one just like the other one. Expect more in another few days. Sooner or later the big O is gonna blow.

re: #40 Killgore Trout

Eh.....I'm not so impressed. It was kinda funny but it's on the same theme as the others. I think McCain should start running some more serious issue oriented ads.

He should work the energy angle til the cows come home.

Obama takes himself so seriously it's hillarious to see his reaction to people mocking him.

re: #50 loppyd

Obama takes himself so seriously it's hillarious to see his reaction to people mocking him.

Exactly. Give him enough rope and he will hang himself out to dry.

re: #24 trailortrash

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

Can you imagine wading through all those speeches to put that together? Barf!

re: #48 galloping granny

The whole point to the ad is that Obama is very upset over being called a celebrity. It is really throwing him & his campaign off his game. So here comes another one just like the other one. Expect more in another few days. Sooner or later the big O is gonna blow.

Thanks. I was wondering if my #18 upstairs was outside the ballpark.

Good! They are using simplistic ad's that BHO's base might be able to understand. The mocking may be too nuanced, though

A while back, NRO was saying that McCain could have a hard time debating Obama. If he puts Obama down, that would turn people off. If he gets aggressive, he'll just look like the angry old guy. But this kind of works around it....more going after his base supporters and the reasons they like BHO.

My parents are Dems and they think Obama is just ducky. My boss is a Dem and the only news input he gets is from NPR and CNN. He just shrugs off any yucky facts about Obama. Doesn't care.

I find many Dems woefully uninformed/naive and prone to either high drama or superficiality when it comes to important issues.

Well I am assuming this is all "preparation of the battlefield" in that McCain is taking away Obama's biggest assets by ridiculing them. The celebrity and the press have both been attacked effectively.

He needs to go after the sans-teleprompter Obama who is a gaffe factory.

Once that is out of the way, they get to talk about policy and experience. Obama will try the "judgment" thing and I hope McCain slaps him around for it.

Anyway, good use of jujitsu like techniques to hurt Obama using his own momentum.

re: #54 gruvin

Good! They are using simplistic ad's that BHO's base might be able to understand. The mocking may be too nuanced, though

Actually his base will think its an Obama ad, until the "Paid for by John McCain" at the end, at which time their heads will explode!

Funny stuff. This is for youtube right, not broadcast media?

re: #54 gruvin

Good! They are using simplistic ad's that BHO's base might be able to understand. The mocking may be too nuanced, though

Plenty of pundits will un-nuance it for Obama.

re: #54 gruvin

Good! They are using simplistic ad's that BHO's base might be able to understand. The mocking may be too nuanced, though

Yes, too nuanced for the base, but they can't see past their own emotions anyway. It's not whom the ads are targeting.

re: #37 Sharmuta

By the time November rolls around, I doubt you'll need to.
;-P

re: #8 6pat6

B-HO is a goober. I like that little ad!

Love it -quick and to the point

McCain wales, excellent...Party on Wayne. Party on Garth!

soft eyes? oh yeah......
/that gets my vote

re: #51 galloping granny

Exactly. Give him enough rope and he will hang himself out to dry.

That seems to be the plan and so far it seems to be working.

re: #58 Lee Coller

Actually his base will think its an Obama ad, until the "Paid for by John McCain" at the end, at which time their heads will explode!

LOL!

re: #41 Dr. Shalit

OK Everyone -

This AD is Silly to say the least. Effective? - We shall see.

-S-

If it gets Obama cult members to be a little more self conscious and a little less smug and obnoxious, it will have been a very effective ad in my book.

Not kidding.

This is a great commercial. I wish they'd included even more shots of the press drooling over Obama. But I liked the way they interspersed policy in with the funny.

Let's hope it continues to be effective as the press ramps up their campaign to elect The One.

re: #53 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Thanks. I was wondering if my #18 upstairs was outside the ballpark.

I don't think you're outside the ballpark at all. But then I have thought right along that McCain was playing it pretty darned smart. Even if it is different and more laid back that what we've seen in the past.

If it works, run with it:

McCain's 'celebrity' taunts are bugging Obama

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In a presidential campaign freighted with war, recession and energy woes, a jibe featuring Paris Hilton, of all things, seems to have struck a nerve in Democrat Barack Obama.

For the second time in two weeks, he aired a TV ad Monday rebutting Republican John McCain's claim that Obama is little more than a celebrity, like the blonde hotel heiress.

The first time, Obama dismissed the assertion as "baloney." On Monday, Obama took a different tack with a commercial that says McCain, not he, is "Washington's biggest celebrity."

re: #32 galloping granny

Did you see that he is publishing a book this fall outlining his positions on everything? It also includes a scrapbook of campaign pictures and all of his key speeches. I figure he is publishing it so he can refer to it in order to know what it is he thinks.

How cute, he's into scrapbooking! barf!

re: #48 galloping granny

YouTube is where it is at these days. Make enough noise and it becomes news, at which point the networks run it for free.

The whole point to the ad is that Obama is very upset over being called a celebrity. It is really throwing him & his campaign off his game. So here comes another one just like the other one. Expect more in another few days. Sooner or later the big O is gonna blow.

I thought he kinda blew now...

These ads are great and they really speak volumes about Obama's star- struck dreamy fans.
So keep the ads a-comin.

re: #49 Sharmuta

I agree. During one of the later Dem debates Obama was asked what he'd do to lower gas prices. He flat out said he'd do nothing to lower gas prices and search for alternative fuels instead. It would make a great ad.

re: #69 buzzsawmonkey

meat-tenderizing

Where's my spare keyboard?!?!?!

re: #66 loppyd

That seems to be the plan and so far it seems to be working.

Always does work with people who are full of themselves and too darned arrogant to pour piss out of a boot.

re: #40 Killgore Trout

Yeah, but you are smart. I are not. This appeals to me, and I think like much of the masses (without the fawning over the missing person de jour).

I think they need to knock the SOB off of his high horse, then they can start kicking him with facts.

With the SOB having a book coming out in September, expect a lot of free ads for Obambi on the networks. If everyone thinks they kissed his ass during the World Tour, it's not even going to hold a candle to the Book Tour.

The nice part is that "Sick of Obama" polls show that the more people see of him, the less they like him.

I seem to recall that John Fing Kerry and Al Bore released books during a campaign. Is this the new standard for Dem polis, Release books to get the fawning press to provide even more free publicity?

/I seem to remember he served in Viet Nam. and can I mention, he's an idiot.

I like that Obama added seven more states to our union and that is so Kewl !

re: #80 Mars Needs Neocons

But he's a great windsurfer...for a guy his age.
You can't have it all!

Question: Will this be on television or strictly for the internets.

Thanks

re: #69 buzzsawmonkey

I think it's a good strategy to mock the Obama brand but he needs to push his own ideas more. It's a bad idea to have the focus of his campaign be "At least I'm not Obama". The Dems tried that with Kerry and it didn't work out very well.

re: #38

That is about the sickest thing I've ever seen

re: #78 galloping granny

Always does work with people who are full of themselves and too darned arrogant to pour piss out of a boot.

It worked with John F'ing Kerry.

He still can't believe he lost and to this day blames everyone except himself.

re: #80 Mars Needs Neocons

The nice part is that "Sick of Obama" polls show that the more people see of him, the less they like him.

That's a good point.

re: #13 Dave the.....

Contemporaries said of Lincoln that

"His compassion was infinite".

But that's not the same as soft eyes

here are Lincoln's eyes

Lincoln

re: #40 Killgore Trout

Eh.....I'm not so impressed. It was kinda funny but it's on the same theme as the others. I think McCain should start running some more serious issue oriented ads.

Normally, I hate campaign ads and tune them out because they tend to be so histrionic and negative, the message is lost. I found this one to actually be representative of giddy Obama voters and therefore, highly amusing.

re: #76 Killgore Trout

I agree. During one of the later Dem debates Obama was asked what he'd do to lower gas prices. He flat out said he'd do nothing to lower gas prices and search for alternative fuels instead. It would make a great ad.

I still think the hullabaloo over the paris hilton ad was meant to distract from the real message of the ad- obama's woeful energy policy.

Americans care about the price of gas right now- I think it will be THE issue come November. There is a lot McCain could say for himself and against obama that will win a lot of people to McCain's side.

stop it! Obama does have soft eyes and a nice aura.

re: #82 J.D.

But he's a great windsurfer...for a guy his age.
You can't have it all!

LOL
Are we going to have the obligatory Obambi windsurfing pic while he's on vacation in Hawaii?

re: #90 buzzsawmonkey

Agreed. But there is time for that--not a lot, but there is time. The conventions haven't even taken place.

By softening up Obama with ridicule, he is preparing the way for his own ideas to be taken seriously on an even playing field, which they wouldn't be if Obama were permitted to continue with his children's crusade.

Good point.

re: #3 galloping granny

Obama does not like being called a celebrity!

He will get angry.

/and you won't like him when he's angry

re: #83 Ostracized

Question: Will this be on television or strictly for the internets.

Thanks

This is an internet ad. It appears on a landing page on the McCain website welcoming visitors to the Obama Fan Club.

Here =
[Link: www.johnmccain.com...]

Another great ad!

re: #93 Mars Needs Neocons

LOL
Are we going to have the obligatory Obambi windsurfing pic while he's on vacation in Hawaii?

Picture'll be funny if he's wearing a helmet. Big 'ole ears catching the wind...

I am so glad to hear that Obama will have a book coming out soon.

And it is about his favorite subject - himself!

I think Obama needs to write more books about himself because there is so little information available on him in the media.

re: #87 Killgore Trout

That's a good point.

Thank you. I reference the polls last week that stated 2/3 of Republicans are sick of seeing him on the news, 1/2 of independents, and 1/3 of all Dems.

re: #34 galloping granny

Yes, I was thinking "White Men Can't Dance" as I wrote that - and as I watched the video.

I see it differently: I think he was mirroring Ellen's movements quite perfectly.

He seems graceful with a good sense of rhythm.

re: #26 buzzsawmonkey

Damn, how I wish YouTube had a copy of Skafish's "Fan Club."

So appropriate.

Holy big nose with a really weird haircut Batman! There's somebody else out there who knows of Jim Skafish? BTW, it's "Joan Fan Club"

For the uninitiated:
You have been warned

I think it's funny.

He's "dreamy". LOL. And his "aura" is like, sooooo peaceful.

Cult of personality? Say it ain't so!

This went up on the outside of one of my favorite bars not too long ago. It's the holy triptych--CHANGE, HOPE, and PROGRESS. Each is 9 by 6 feet.

Big Brother is Watching*

*Note, libs, this is not a racist statement, it's an allusion to Orwell, which you guys would be HOWLING about if Republicans were rendered with such iconography.

Sigh, guess I don't get to drink in that bar til after the election...

re: #95 Killian Bundy

He will get angry.

/and you won't like him when he's angry

Michelle is angry enough for both of them.

re: #101 Josephine

I see it differently: I think he was mirroring Ellen's movements quite perfectly.

He seems graceful with a good sense of rhythm.

For somebody with a stick up his ass maybe. He sure isn't a ballerina.

re: #80 Mars Needs Neocons

Have I mentioned recently that John Kerry is an idiot?

re: #98 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Picture'll be funny if he's wearing a helmet. Big 'ole ears catching the wind...

And somehow his board will have a flat fin.

re: #42 Kenneth

I think it also positions the McCain campaign as funny, hip and definitely not old fogey-ish.

re: #107 karmic_inquisitor

Have I mentioned recently that John Kerry is an idiot?

I've heard he served in Viet Nam.

re: #107 karmic_inquisitor

Have I mentioned recently that John Kerry is an idiot?

It goes without saying.

It's a very clever ad.

Does it get any airtime outside of YouTube? Like on Broadcast or cable?

Over the next couple of months, we are going to be flooded with celebrity pleas (remember the Al Gore wins or I'm moving to Canada threats) and films like Oliver Stone's "W" to try to get people to vote for Obama.

McCain needs to keep putting ads out that tie the mindless Hollywood moonbats to Obama.

re: #112 Syrah

It's a very clever ad.

Does it get any airtime outside of YouTube? Like on Broadcast or cable?

It will. Give it a couple of days. It just came out a few hours ago.

re: #89 rightymouse
unfortuantely McCain couldnt show the darker side of his supporters threatening others etc if we won't vote for him.

re: #110 Mars Needs Neocons

I've heard he served in Viet Nam.

Where did you hear that?

I think what McCain is doing is brilliant. Let's have the serious stuff after the conventions. HAVE you seen the Obama ads. This guy takes himself so damn seriously its sickening, absolutely no sense of humor at all. His ads are so annoying I can't even watch them to ridicule him. McCain is showing himself to be a great counterpoint to a pretentious ass that can't have any fun.

By the way...

SYNCRONIZED DIVING IS ON RIGHT NOW! MY WIFE IS WATCHING IT!

Know what that means?

I AM WATCHING SYNCRONIZED DIVING RIGHT NOW!

re: #112 Syrah

It's a very clever ad.

Does it get any airtime outside of YouTube? Like on Broadcast or cable?

It may not run officially on cable, but it will be dissected on cable (for signs of racism) which is the same thing....but free.

re: #114 galloping granny

It will. Give it a couple of days. It just came out a few hours ago.

I hope so.

I would hate to think that theses clever ones are only available on the interwebs.

This still cracks me up

It is a good ad. It not only mocks BHO, but his air brained sycophants.

re: #93 Mars Needs Neocons

Are we going to have the obligatory Obambi windsurfing pic while he's on vacation in Hawaii?

We can only hope! It worked so well for John Ke...
_{Never mind.}

Oh no, not another vicious attack ad.

The left is apoplectic over the fact they have zero sense of humor and the old guy is running rings around Obama.

Won't be long before Obama loses it, and then he's toast. He's so thin-skinned and can only take so much ridicule.

re: #113 gman

Over the next couple of months, we are going to be flooded with celebrity pleas (remember the Al Gore wins or I'm moving to Canada threats) and films like Oliver Stone's "W" to try to get people to vote for Obama.

McCain needs to keep putting ads out that tie the mindless Hollywood moonbats to Obama.

Read the write up on W on IMDB. I really thought Jason Ritter might have had more sense. Of course Hollywood is so liberal that he probably has just given himself a free pass to get any role he wants from now on.

re: #23 ProUSA

Perfect. Great quotes from the mesmerized Obama fan base.

/just like the nimrods on top of the building in Independence Day waiting to welcome the aliens

re: #116 karmic_inquisitor

Where did you hear that?

From John Kerry.

re: #104 Palandine

Anyone other than me get the creeps looking at that? I don't know what dictator/regime it reminds me of, but it isn't good.

re: #125 JammieWearingFool

Won't be long before Obama loses it, and then he's toast. He's so thin-skinned and can only take so much ridicule.

Sorry. John McCain is the one with the temper. Not that we've ever seen it, but the left has told us that it is there, so we had better believe them.

re: #72 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I've watched his rebuttal ad at least twice and think it's pretty lame. He can't seem to come up with an original idea of his own. Obviously McCain has the more talented writers/producers on his team.

Actually, I also think it is smart that are attacking the Morons and leaving the Messiah alone.

Vote for Obama, she's gonna!

Enough to make me look at another candidate.

re: #115 willowone

unfortuantely McCain couldnt show the darker side of his supporters threatening others etc if we won't vote for him.

Presume you are talking about the threat letters to Republican donors? That's already out on the wire. Hopefully, McCain will address in the appropriate forum.

Then, there's always Iowahawk.

re: #93 Mars Needs Neocons

LOL
Are we going to have the obligatory Obambi windsurfing pic while he's on vacation in Hawaii?

Let's have a photo of him windsurfing here!

I've stood in the water there. Didn't dare go out beyond where it was up to my knees.

re: #110 Mars Needs Neocons

I've heard he served in Viet Nam.

Really? That news to me, he's so modest about it.
/

re: #128 Mars Needs Neocons

From John Kerry.

I am sure it had to be dragged out of him since it would be egotistical and boorish to boast about such a thing, especially for political gain.

re: #121 Syrah

I hope so.

I would hate to think that theses clever ones are only available on the interwebs.

Here in the US the Internet buys you a much bigger bang for your buck than a thirty second spot on cable TV. And nobody watches the networks anymore.

re: #133 rightymouse

Presume you are talking about the threat letters to Republican donors? That's already out on the wire. Hopefully, McCain will address in the appropriate forum.

Then, there's always Iowahawk.

Let's not forget the Obama people threatening the Hillary supporters at the primaries.

re: #118 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I'm waiting until they come out with synchronized boxing.
Now THAT would be something!

re: #136 karmic_inquisitor

I am sure it had to be dragged out of him since it would be egotistical and boorish to boast about such a thing, especially for political gain.

As JCM pointed out, his modesty is amazing.

re: #118 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

By the way...

SYNCRONIZED DIVING IS ON RIGHT NOW! MY WIFE IS WATCHING IT!

Know what that means?

I AM WATCHING SYNCRONIZED DIVING RIGHT NOW!

You don't have to watch if you don't want to.

Fix her some snacks, giver her a beer, and "remember" some errand that needs to be done.

re: #118 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I'm a girl, and I have to say:

It looks cool when girls do it and kinda fruity when guys do.

/and it reminds me of that "Olympic men's synchronized swimming" skit from back when Saturday Night Live was funny

I like this add. Over all I'll give it my go ahead.

Of course the MSM and leftists will scream racist...or something asinine to that matter.

/ I'd say "Do it"

re: #130 karmic_inquisitor

Sorry. John McCain is the one with the temper. Not that we've ever seen it, but the left has told us that it is there, so we had better believe them.

Pure hogwash! John McCain would not have survived the Hanoi Hilton if he had not long since learned to control his temper to a level that none of us can begin to imagine.

re: #127 Killian Bundy

I'm borrowing that.
Probably a lot.

re: #142 Palandine

Martin Short with his noseclip! LOL!
Loved it!

Howie Carr on Silky Pony:

John Edwards scandal too much even for a moonbat

Some highlights:

Now will you moonbats finally peel the Kerry-Edwards bumper stickers off your rusting Volvos and Saabs?

I’ve been telling you people for almost four years now how foolish you look, refusing to scrape off the reminders of yet another doomed Democrat ticket. This ongoing refusal to face reality has lasted longer than the Gore-Lieberman tantrum of 2000, which by 2002 had led GOP wags to festoon their SUVs with almost identical Sore-Loserman bumper stickers..........

Say what you will about Republican wingnuts, but my recollection is that the 1972 Re-elect the President bumper stickers were long gone before Nixon was himself pried out of the White House in August 1974. At the end, as William Kennedy once wrote, “only boobs and bleepheads” supported Nixon. Ditto with these two pampered PC poodles, Kerry and Edwards..........

re: #142 Palandine

I'm not a very, uh, strong swimmer.

Funniest thing ever!

re: #138 Mars Needs Neocons

Let's not forget the Obama people threatening the Hillary supporters at the primaries.

Not forgetting that.

re: #137 galloping granny

Here in the US the Internet buys you a much bigger bang for your buck than a thirty second spot on cable TV. And nobody watches the networks anymore.

McCain is also hitting Obama in the demographic which Obama values the most - the elusive "youth" vote. the one that doesn't normally show up at polls.

Recent polls show Obama losing ground there. He can only lose ground in that demographic, and McCain is taking it away. Once the "likely voter" models get corrected for this, McCain will poll ahead of Obama.

re: #110 Mars Needs Neocons

I've heard he served in Viet Nam.

He was the only war hero to serve in Vietnam.

(He reported for duty and then after 4 months (and 3 purple hearts) and some movie footage - he went home to hang with hollywood communists.)

re: #133 rightymouse
yes those, and from what ive read browbeating voters and campaigns of hillarys in texas and such

re: #125 JammieWearingFool

Oh no, not another vicious attack ad.

The left is apoplectic over the fact they have zero sense of humor and the old guy is running rings around Obama.

Won't be long before Obama loses it, and then he's toast. He's so thin-skinned and can only take so much ridicule.

I can't wait for the debates.

re: #129 Killer Tomato

Anyone other than me get the creeps looking at that? I don't know what dictator/regime it reminds me of, but it isn't good.

It's Soviet realism. It's supposed to creep you out.

/and it's a really cool bar, before it went and did THAT

re: #139 wolfie

I'm waiting until they come out with synchronized boxing.
Now THAT would be something!

How about a Synchronized Lawn Chair Drill Team?

If Obama wins, I think I'll move to Russia. I'll throw my cards in with Putin before I go with B.O.

/There are hot women there, too!

re: #151 FrogMarch

He was the only war hero to serve in Vietnam.

(He reported for duty and then after 4 months (and 3 purple hearts) and some movie footage - he went home to hang with hollywood communists.)

Well after all, that's what heroes do.

/

re: #152 willowone

yes those, and from what ive read browbeating voters and campaigns of hillarys in texas and such

Will replaying this make a mark on love-struck Obama voters? The answer is 'no' for the Dems I know.

That ad is racist.

/

re: #144 galloping granny

I guess I should have put down a sarc tag. I agree with you 100%.

The temper thing is a media invention. That isn't to say McCain can't let you know that you have pissed him off. I want a president who can be pissed off. Like at the CIA Director or at the Secretary of State, for example.

re: #157 Mars Needs Neocons

Well after all, that's what heroes do.

/

It's only natural. Shall we blindly worship the Mother F*er simply because we hate Bush?

/leftard

re: #146 J.D.

Martin Short with his noseclip! LOL!
Loved it!

You, you, I see you!

I'm not very...strong...in the water

Ohh I like this strategy, keep hitting at the "cult of personality" that follows Obama around - and not for his stance on issues, just for his "coolness" factor.

re: #159 Walter L. Newton

Hey Walter! How you feelin?

Yeah! I'm heading home for the day!
Only 12 1/2 hours in the salt mines today...

re: #157 Mars Needs Neocons

Well after all, that's what heroes do.

/

Kerry and Audie Murphy, two peas in a pod.

/

McCain should enlist the aid of Lorne Michaels of Saturday Night Live, or someone he suggests, to help them with the know nothings and young voters. That's his demographic, and he IS a McCain supporter.

re: #158 rightymouse right most will look at you with horror as if you are something from another planet. i'll think as i walk away wth has happened to otherwise sensible people.

re: #155 rawmuse

How about a Synchronized Lawn Chair Drill Team?

Happy Birthday to Rawmuse today!
one year as a lizard...

re: #155 rawmuse

How about a Synchronized Lawn Chair Drill Team?

ROFLMAO ! That is priceless!

Heh. The Obama ideas appear to be flushed down a toilet.

A blue liquid chemical john.

re: #53 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Thanks. I was wondering if my #18 upstairs was outside the ballpark.

yes, but I'm sure glad someone had the fortitude !

re: #168 willowone

right most will look at you with horror as if you are something from another planet. i'll think as i walk away wth has happened to otherwise sensible people.

Dems are not rational people when it comes to politics, never mind reality. And they REALLY hate dealing with facts when it comes to any of their sacred cows and politicians like Pelosi. But I repeat myself.

re: #101 Josephine

Mirroring

"Mirroring. This is what separates a good flirt from a great flirt: nothing will bond you more effectively than mirroring someone's behaviour. This simply means you do whatever it is they do. If they lean forward to tell you something intimate, you lean in to meet them. If they sit back to take a sip of their drink and look you in the eye, you pause then follow suit.

"The theory behind mirroring is that we like people who are like us. If someone is doing what we're doing, we feel they're on the same level as us and in the same mood as we are..."

re: #106 galloping granny

I am with Granny. I think this is proof positive he is more Arab and white than African American or black or whatever term he is using to describe himself.

(that was not meant to be racist but most black guys can blow white guys away in the dance moves department. There are exceptions to every rule, I am a white girl who CAN dance, but that might be the years of ballet that really does transform over to club moves)

re: #175 Armywife

There are exceptions to every rule, I am a white girl who CAN dance, but that might be the years of ballet that really does transform over to club moves)

Yeah, I saw "Flashdance".

re: #174 Josephine

Been using that for years...building rapport with customers, it works like a charm.

Ploome - are you here?

He has soft eyes.
Now that is a reason to vote for someone to run the f'n country.

re: #164 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Hey Walter! How you feelin?

OT medical update. I'm ok. I'm still scheduled for the surgery consult on Aug. 25th. This past Thursday night, about two hours before a performance, my heart started racing, up to 180 beats a minutes. I've had this happen off and on since I was a teen, but it usually stops in a few mintues. NOT THIS TIME. I finally told the producer to call 911.

Well, all these fireman and paramedics show up, really overdressed for the warm Colorado afternoon, and insist that I take a little ride. So, we are going down I70, headed to Lutheran Medical Center, and this dude starts taking out IV needles. I looked at him and said "you're not going to try to put those needles in me while we are bouncing down the highway." Yes he was. It was kind of funny seeing him trying to hold his hand still, and the needel flopping around in the air.

At the ER, they got 5 people around the gurney, and they tell me, we are going to "reset your heart." I said "you're going to stop it, right?" The doc says "no, we are going to pause it."

And I shot back, "look, the pause button on my DVD player STOPS the movie" and he replied "yea, ok, we are going to stop your hear for a beat or two."

So I said "I want 6 people around the bed, and all the student interns you can find."

Bottom line, they gave me some chemicals that reset the heart rate, and tell me I have SVT (supraventrical Trachycadia), otherwise know in the South as "palpitations."

It is a benign condition, not even life threatening, just kind of scary. They gave me a prescription to take and I have to follow up with my primary care folks and see a cadiologist.

Now I have two items on my medical card, inderict iguinal hernia and SVT.

Other than that, I'm fine. Thanks for asking.

Russian-Bar Acrobatic

Not an Oly event but the last min or so will rock your world.

re: #177 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Been using that for years...building rapport with customers, it works like a charm.

That's interesting.

I really think that's what Obama was doing when he was dancing with Ellen.

re: #180 Walter L. Newton

Putting the IV in in the rig is a cinch. It's put one in while extracting some one from a upside down car in a water filled ditch by flashlight in driving rain when it get's interesting.
;-)

Take care, listen to the docs and get well!

re: #176 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Oh yes - I remember seeing Flash Dance and not totally understanding it, but wearing the leg warmers to school and cutting up my sweat shirts. I was 12 when the movie came out - my daddy just LOVED the look and me dancing around the house like a fool - he said "I pay what for dance lessons for this?"

re: #38 jcm

Star of the next Obama commercial.

It's already been done:

Leave Barack Alone

re: #180 Walter L. Newton

Okay or not (and it's good to hear the former), you'll be in my thoughts.

re: #102 mfarmer1

Holy big nose with a really weird haircut Batman! There's somebody else out there who knows of Jim Skafish? BTW, it's "Joan Fan Club"

For the uninitiated:
You have been warned

I remember him, too! "Disgracing The Family Name"!

re: #180 Walter L. Newton

Well, Walter, if you end up with a pacemaker (as I think you shall) be comforted in the fact that they are truly remarkable, modern devices and have saved the lives of many. Ms. Rawmuse is in the field, and she shows me readouts of pacemaker/defibs. that have brought patients back from the dead, and I mean literally, in that the readout shows fibrillations, followed by flat line (patient is now technically dead and would be, lacking any intervention) followed by impulses provided by the pacemaker device, followed by normal heartbeat restored to the patient, followed by restoration of consciousness, followed by phone call to my wife.

Kindest regards, mend well.

re: #34 galloping granny

Yes, I was thinking "White Men Can't Dance" as I wrote that - and as I watched the video.

I don't think it's true, because I've seen awesome white dancers. My experience is that most white men don't think it's cool to dance, at least in America.

The guy at 40 seconds in in this video:

I've seen the guy elsewhere, did a Singing in the Rain Dance which was brilliant.

re: #180 Walter L. Newton

Other than that, I'm fine. Thanks for asking.

My reasons are pretty selfish. You're a smart SOB and fun to have around. Keep on this side of the daisies (if you don't mind!).

re: #190 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Time to go make further (farther? never get that right) fun of Odrama upstairs.

re: #110 Mars Needs Neocons

Obama needs Kerry's lucky hat about now. Didn't he pick that up when Nixon sent him to Cambodia while LBJ was president?

There are times and places where mockery is a powerful tool. Obama is the perfect target because he is nothing but media-supported fluff. These ads work so well because there is a core of truth to them.

re: #175 Armywife

I am with Granny. I think this is proof positive he is more Arab and white than African American or black or whatever term he is using to describe himself.

(that was not meant to be racist but most black guys can blow white guys away in the dance moves department. There are exceptions to every rule, I am a white girl who CAN dance, but that might be the years of ballet that really does transform over to club moves)

It is only white guys that can't dance :) I can dance too. So can my Dad, but I'll chalk that up to the American Indian.

re: #185 ratherdashing

It's already been done:

Leave Barack Alone

Bwahahahahahahahahaha! I'm sending that link to my lib friends. lol!

re: #192 MnMatty

Obama needs Kerry's lucky hat about now. Didn't he pick that up when Nixon sent him to Cambodia while LBJ was president?

Yeah, at Christmas, seared in his memory, SEARED I tells ya.
/

re: #190 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

My reasons are pretty selfish. You're a smart SOB and fun to have around. Keep on this side of the daisies (if you don't mind!).

Thank you for that nice complement.

re: #185 ratherdashing

It's already been done:

Leave Barack Alone

ROFL!

re: #188 rawmuse

Well, Walter, if you end up with a pacemaker (as I think you shall) be comforted in the fact that they are truly remarkable, modern devices and have saved the lives of many. Ms. Rawmuse is in the field, and she shows me readouts of pacemaker/defibs. that have brought patients back from the dead, and I mean literally, in that the readout shows fibrillations, followed by flat line (patient is now technically dead and would be, lacking any intervention) followed by impulses provided by the pacemaker device, followed by normal heartbeat restored to the patient, followed by restoration of consciousness, followed by phone call to my wife.
Kindest regards, mend well.

At this point, I don't hear no pacemaker talk. According to my discharge papers and what I have read, this is a benign condition, and not really dangerous.

But whatever, I'm not bothered by medical procedures or needs. I hate the alternative.

re: #199 Walter L. Newton

At this point, I don't hear no pacemaker talk. According to my discharge papers and what I have read, this is a benign condition, and not really dangerous.

But whatever, I'm not bothered by medical procedures or needs. I hate the alternative.

Exactly. It's good to hear it isn't serious.

re: #199 Walter L. Newton

Great! Maybe it was a one-off deal. I hope so.

These McCain ads are becoming more and more surreal. It's like I'm watching a spoof of an ad, and not a real one. Still funny, though.

re: #187 Clutch

I remember him, too! "Disgracing The Family Name"!

Let me guess...you bought the album like I did just because the cover was so...well...intriguing to say the least?

Geesh, that had to be what, 1979, 1980?

Just had my 30th hs reunion on Saturday and now a walk down Skafish memory lane. Stop already! :)

Here is the Singing in the Rain one.

David Elsewhere is the dancer:

re: #202 Slumbering Behemoth

These McCain ads are becoming more and more surreal. It's like I'm watching a spoof of an ad, and not a real one. Still funny, though.

There is not the first thing wrong with that.

Heh. The John Kerry jokes are still funny. Gotta love the classics!

re: #203 mfarmer1

Let me guess...you bought the album like I did just because the cover was so...well...intriguing to say the least?

Geesh, that had to be what, 1979, 1980?

Just had my 30th hs reunion on Saturday and now a walk down Skafish memory lane. Stop already! :)

I'm trying to remember if I bought the LP or if I just heard him on the IRS sampler... (think it was just the sampler LP, but then I used to buy LPs by the ton, so I might have had it). But, yeah, I used to buy LPs based on the cover alone (and if it had the words "Moog" or "ARP" on them, even more likely!) I was a prog / fusion/ jazz/ electronic music fan that dipped briefly into punk and in about 1981 or so went back to being a p/f/j/e music fan again. Still am, but can listen to classic punk / new wave without cringing ("classic punk" whoda thunk it?)

My 35th is coming up next year... I'm friggin' OLD.

re: #204 buzzsawmonkey

Well, he is dealing with a spoof of a candidate.

No doubt about that, a fact which makes the whole experience that much more surreal.

Totally awesome, dudes!

Been posting on the youtube thread. Barry fans have no funny bones, for sure. One poster's retort to a guy with a "GWAR" nick was "Grow up!" Lol. Barry et al are the old curmudgeons, and the McCain peeps are the totally cool types.

Fun times.

re: #199 Walter L. Newton

At this point, I don't hear no pacemaker talk. According to my discharge papers and what I have read, this is a benign condition, and not really dangerous.

But whatever, I'm not bothered by medical procedures or needs. I hate the alternative.

Careful with the caffeine intake, and when you have an episode tighten your stomach muscles as though you are trying to make rock hard abs.

Probably been said, but it's a shame that McCain is such a crappy candidate - the ads about Baracky Manilow have been fun.

re: #214 tedzilla99

Probably been said, but it's a shame that McCain is such a crappy candidate - the ads about Baracky Manilow have been fun.

Not all of us think that McCain is a crappy candidate.

McCain jumped to the front of the Republican primary when Buto was killed. When foreign policy is pushed to the front, like the Russians invading Georgia, it helps McCain. Remember both Hillery's and B-HO's foreign policy advisers made a trip to Syria at the same time. They probably tolled the chinless one to keep his terror buddies in check till after the election because it would help McCain. Question is, what did they promise in return for this?

re: #24 trailortrash

kind of embarrassing tho

The McCain camp should make an ad asking Obama --

"Why...so....serious?"

re: #205 buzzsawmonkey

I guess you missed La Mere Vipere.

I'm from San Diego. We had the Skeleton Club. That lasted about six months before the cops shut it down.

Just came across a photo of me with blue hair circa 1979. Nice. I even had a candy-cane striped coat with bloodstains on it from slam-dancing. That was big with the ladies, oh yeah.

I was such a poser. I even took a bit of crazy glue and used it to affix safety pins onto my cheeks before concerts. At least the blood on the coat was real.

Hey, at least I could spell, and I didn't use the word "like" three times in a sentence! Take that misguided youth of today!

re: #209 Clutch

I'm trying to remember if I bought the LP or if I just heard him on the IRS sampler... (think it was just the sampler LP, but then I used to buy LPs by the ton, so I might have had it). But, yeah, I used to buy LPs based on the cover alone (and if it had the words "Moog" or "ARP" on them, even more likely!) I was a prog / fusion/ jazz/ electronic music fan that dipped briefly into punk and in about 1981 or so went back to being a p/f/j/e music fan again. Still am, but can listen to classic punk / new wave without cringing ("classic punk" whoda thunk it?)

My 35th is coming up next year... I'm friggin' OLD.

Classic punk, ah yes, I feel your age. Some of it has held up very well, surprisingly so. My wife is often shocked she hears something in my car which is 30 years old but thinks it's fresh stuff. OTOH, much of it belongs locked up in a time capsule in a nuclear waste storage facility.

re: #127 Killian Bundy

/just like the nimrods on top of the building in Independence Day waiting to welcome the aliens

Wow. Great image, it shows how evil people like myself laugh at the misfortune of others. (thought only our family called people nimrods...great word, isn't it)

re: #195 rightymouse

I'm crying too, but it's because I'm laughing too hard!

This ad is great. It's funny, but it also comes out at a perfect time. Since Barack is on vacation, do you think he'll reply? Or will he have one of his ninny staffers make some dumb retort?

While I join my fellow lizards in scorn for that slimy, untalented clown BHO, the Real Clear Politics meta-poll has him up 4.8% nationally. Electoral votes favor him even more. The ONLY evidence of serious problems in his camp is that he is only 2% higher than McCain in Favorables.

So, despite what some conservative blogs are saying, BHO does not look like he's in bad shape yet. :-(

NOBODY expects stodgy old republicans to come from this angle. Liberals just assume they will be doing all the mocking while conservatives play the straight guy. Somebody woke up and got a clue in McCainsville.

I think that this is part of very brilliant campaign to undermine the younger undecideds. I can tell you living in a so called "battleground" state that the McCain ads that run on broadcast TV are pretty serious and to the point regarding BHO and his lack of leadership, positions on taxes, drilling etc. He is splitting the battleground between those who tend to watch TV and those who live on the net.

IMHO

re: #224 sk

Just a word of caution when reading the RCP polling averages, they have some really bad data in them and when you remove those polls like the CBS poll that gives a 6 point lead to BHO using a very unreliable base, registered voters which tend to lean always to the democratic candidate, the numbers are really much closer. In the case of the CBS poll the number of Democrats that responded was 381 v 317 Republicans with more than 331 so called independent voters. However, for scoring purposes the Democrats were given a higher weighting which probably help move the numbers.

Not a statical genius but if you read the questions and answers there are a significant number of discrepancies in the results..

Just Saying

Inexperienced. Not ready to lead. Good reasons not to vote for Obama.

Now tell me why I should vote for McCain! Or for any party whose Vice President dare not even show his face at the party convention.

It seems that all the Republicans can come up with now is to play up the media hype and hulabaloo of Obama Superstar and Obama the Messiah so they can knock him down and remind us that he is only human.

Yay! How about dem soft eyes? lol

I could not believe my eyes last night. Was out at Barnes & Noble, and saw an SUV with the license plate (not bumper sticker, license plate), that simply read OBAMA. It's insane. This CoP (Cult of Personality) has got to go.

re: #56 rightymouse

I find many Dems woefully uninformed/naive and prone to either high drama or superficiality when it comes to important issues.

How 'bout STUCK ON STUPID!

Okay, these ads are funny, and do a good job of poking fun at the reasons most Obama supporters are actually, you know, Obama supporters.

But McQueeg's campaign really needs to start working in some substantive points about policy differences. Obama's plans for jacking up taxes on people making $250,000 a year or more, for example, is a recipe for an instant recession.

There are plenty of reasons to criticize Obama besides the celebrity factor. They need to be pointed out to those who watch YouTube instead of reading conservative blogs.

A couple of reasons to vote for McQueeg, instead of against the Lightbringer, would be a good idea, too.

re: #228 ralphieboy

I advise waiting until after the Democratic convention. (bring popcorn!)

Otherwise, turn the dial down from 11, RB.

/fate of the world's at stake, we know. still, take it easy--it's just politics. :)

re: #232 Ceemack

Reasons for McCain:

$4/gallon gasoline.
Strong OVERALL conservative record of 83%.(read that here somewhere....)
The people of AZ have sent him back to Congress for almost as long as I've lived(currently 31).
He's a known quantity. Like him or no, we know(or have the capacity to learn) what we'll get from him.
His stance on global warming points him in the direction of nuclear power and energy independence.
He won't shitcan our economy.

= = = =

I'd say that aside from ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION--a big negative--we could survive a 4-year McCain Admin. If he's not good enough, then in four years we can safely send him off for a stronger conservative.

Still, I admit lack of knowledge here. I'm largely apolitical; I just want the right guy for the job. Since Duncan Hunter has no shot short of McCain nom'ing him for the VP slot, I'll work w/McCain.

As I said to ralphieboy: Let's wait until after the Denver Carnival Democratic Convention finishes.

Anubis,

McCain won't shitcan the economy? And just what the heck has Bush been doing with it, and what leads us to believe McCain would act differently?

On the other hand, if McCain keeps distancing himself any farther from Bush, he'll have to join the Obama campaign, not oppose it.

And just what presing matters of state are keeping Dick Cheney from flashing his charming smile at the Republican convention?

Nuclear power and energy independence are not synonymous, although many would like us to see it that way. Energy dependence and prolonged US involvement in the Middle East do, however, go hand-in-hand.

I was around when McCain married into a family that bought him the Republican nomination in a rock-solid conservative House district, all but guaranteeing him the election.

Being loved by conservatives is a fine credential if you happen to be one. Lots of people aren't, and many of them are going to be voting this fall.