Swift Boat from Hell
Well, we have to hand it to McCain's campaign - they finally found their angle of underhanded attack on Obama combined with a way to scare evangelicals to voting for McCain. All it took was painting Obama as the Antichrist.
Watch then read on:
Read a good analysis at Time.com. The amazingly insidious power of this ad is both that it's tapping an established vein of evangelical Christian pop culture which most of us who would vote Democratic never even heard of. That way, we don't raise objection to the underpinnings of an attack dressed up as another goofy, out-of-step McCain campaign attack ad, and it subliminally connects with that evangelical base who is already nervous about Obama's liberalness, Muslim-ness, or whatever-ness that's being gratitiously sprayed all over the Interwebz.
I would call politics like this the lowest of blows - and serves to galvanize my opposition to the McCain candidacy whereas I was sort of neutral before. He's obviously inherited some of the best GOP handlers out there, and is being bent the same folks who bent Bush (though it took far less with W) to their will over the last 8 years. You want to talk about the Illuminati? Look to the neo-con block of our government. Look to the $25/barrel oil of 2000 vs $150/barrel oil of 2008 and look who owns the stock. Look at the opinions of consumers, squeezed by a rampantly corrupted lending structure and high energy prices, throw their support to a government that will prop up those same corrupt lenders and use their desperation to erode rather than preserve our planet as it teeters at the edge of possible climactic shift. There's are lots of them, they live among us, and they have a plan.
This is why fundamentalism - no matter the faith or cause or excuse - is always wrong.
ALWAYS.
Well, we have to hand it to McCain's campaign - they finally found their angle of underhanded attack on Obama combined with a way to scare evangelicals to voting for McCain. All it took was painting Obama as the Antichrist.
Watch then read on:
Read a good analysis at Time.com. The amazingly insidious power of this ad is both that it's tapping an established vein of evangelical Christian pop culture which most of us who would vote Democratic never even heard of. That way, we don't raise objection to the underpinnings of an attack dressed up as another goofy, out-of-step McCain campaign attack ad, and it subliminally connects with that evangelical base who is already nervous about Obama's liberalness, Muslim-ness, or whatever-ness that's being gratitiously sprayed all over the Interwebz.
I would call politics like this the lowest of blows - and serves to galvanize my opposition to the McCain candidacy whereas I was sort of neutral before. He's obviously inherited some of the best GOP handlers out there, and is being bent the same folks who bent Bush (though it took far less with W) to their will over the last 8 years. You want to talk about the Illuminati? Look to the neo-con block of our government. Look to the $25/barrel oil of 2000 vs $150/barrel oil of 2008 and look who owns the stock. Look at the opinions of consumers, squeezed by a rampantly corrupted lending structure and high energy prices, throw their support to a government that will prop up those same corrupt lenders and use their desperation to erode rather than preserve our planet as it teeters at the edge of possible climactic shift. There's are lots of them, they live among us, and they have a plan.
This is why fundamentalism - no matter the faith or cause or excuse - is always wrong.
ALWAYS.
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