Mavericks of Change [Update]
By Matthew Weaver on September 8, 2008 at 12:19 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, John McCain, Sarah Palin
UPDATE from SusanUnPC: Fox News’s Carl Cameron came up with a fascinating description of this first joint McCain/Palin TV ad, which I typed as he spoke:
It’s a great piece of political judo wherein you take the mantra, the message, the strength of your opponent and claim it as your own. Barack Obama has been on the campaign trail now for two years calling himself the agent of change, saying that he’s the person who can really effect serious reform in Washington.
Now you’ve got John McCain and Sarah Palin saying that they are the candidates of change, pointing to their experience and their resume — their actual work in government — as evidence of their ability to effect the change that Barack Obama says he hopes to bring. Pretty tough row to hoe when Barack Obama has spent so many hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising and campaign efforts calling himself the agent of change, but McCain and Palin believe they can wrestle it away from him in just these last 58 days.
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McCain and Palin are out with a new video this morning that keeps up with their string of great, to-the-point ads that leave Obama sputtering:
I wonder what might be Obama’s response:
- Uh, I was a community organizer
- I, uh, thought about joining the military
- Oh, yeah, throughout 20 years with terrorists, felons, and hate-filled racists I kept my eyes shut, ears closed, and mouth sealed.
Yep, that’s it!






















