Overanalyzing Obama’s European Trip
John McCain, trying to deflect criticism from his forgetting that Iraq and Pakistan don’t share a border, is blasting Barack Obama for skipping a trip to a military hospital.
Really? With gas more expensive than gold and the government having to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are the campaign stops made or not made going to be pivotal? Please be kidding me.
There are a number of meaningful ways McCain could discredit Obama, the most obvious being a lack of experience. There’s the old Republican standby of claiming Obama would be soft on terrorism. Since there are still way too many people that think Obama’s a Muslim, that argument has more traction than it should.
But tearing into Obama because he skipped a photo op is like the scene in Head of State where the incumbent attacks Chris Rock’s character for not attending a cancer research fundraiser. That attack ad concludes that by not attending the rally, the candidate must then be in favor of cancer. This line of reasoning (or the lack thereof) makes you look old and desperate, McCain. Well, maybe just desperate. It’s the fact that you predate evolution that makes you look old.
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