Barbra Streisand, the GOP Attack Machine, and Barack Obama's Image Problem
Should Barack Obama be out hobnobbing with A-list stars while Wall Street is crashing and John McCain is rallying with Main Street American workers?
On the one hand, there are 9 million reasons (all of them dollar bills) that drew Senator Obama to Hollywood last night. On the other, the timing could not have been worse.
Witness this new McCain TV ad that paints the Arizona senator as a hero of the little guy, which should be Obama's rap:
Then, think of the TV coverage of Obama mingling with Barbra Streisand and all her überliberal Hollywood buds. Meanwhile, think of John McCain and Sarah Palin before an expansive audience of blue collar workers in baseball caps and T-shirts.
The Obama campaign's ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory never ceases to amaze me.
Maybe the Illinois senator will pull it off regardless, but jeez, you have to wonder what makes them stage imperial events (his acceptance speech, his speech in Germany) when he's struggling for the working class vote. Yes, Americans idolize the rich and famous. But that doesn't mean they want to see their president mingling with them. They want to see their president out in the trenches, acting like them, so they relate to, not revere, him/her.
Tags: presidential election 2008 | Republicans | Barack Obama | John McCain | Hollywood | celebrities | campaign advertising
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And why did you not mention that McCain/Palin had a similar event in Miami the night before that brought in $5M or in Chicago earlier this month or right after their convention in CA also raising millions of dollars. It is what campaigns do and the fact that media is so quick to treat the McCain/Same as Bush talking points as NEWS is VERY disturbing.
Raising campaign funds is BAD? How about the McCain lobbyists who run his campaign? McCain now wants to fire the SEC Chairman. McCain has a hair-trigger temper as a psychologically disturbed, post-traumatic-disordered candidate. For McCain, it is "Bomb, bomb, Iran!" "Drill, baby, drill!" and "Fire, everyone, fire!" When he slimes Obama, he is in fact the pot calling the faucet black. The McCain-Pain ticket is, even according to Rove, who wrote the book on slime politics, too dirty by far. Their lies, trashy hypocricy, clear power-corrupt past, cronyism, corrupt-money-driven, lfear-mongering,obbyists-run campaign, in which McSlime steals every (rhetorical) line from Obama--Change! Enough! Washington needs to be reformed, etc--can only be bought by voters who either will never vote for a black man or who are persuaded by the sheer magnitude of the lies. Even conservatives like David Brooks, acknowledge that Palin is completely unfit to be VP and soon President, when the near-dementia 72-year-old, chronically angry, and endless-war McBush dies in office.
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