So the GOP Doesn’t Like “Celebrities” who Visit Europe, Speak Well & are Adored?

August 5, 2008

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Here is a new ad coming from the Democrats which is aimed at pointing out the sheer hypocrisy, and down right baseless attacks that have been levied at Democratic hopeful Barack Obama over the last week or so. Specifically this spot takes on the notion that McCain and company have been pathetically attempting to peddle, which claims Obama is too much like a “celebrity”, and because of the high levels of adoration both here and abroad, that he is somehow disqualified or discredited too run the country. Oh how far this country has lowered it’s bar of expectations over the last eight years - clearly another Bush success story…

The video attached below dissects pretty much every single one of McCain’s overly frivolous attacks - these range from the “celebrity shtick” mentioned above, as well as the Republican’s claims that he is “too eloquent of a speaker”, is way to willing to “sit down and negotiate with enemies”, and of course the whole Berlin, Germany speech which saw 200,000 Europeans cheering wildly while waving American flags in a manner we have literally never seen - well at least prior to Obama’s recent visit.

These of course are just a handful of the accusations the Democrats most recent ad (which unfortunately is “internet only”) addresses. However the greatness of this piece is not in what it counters, or the attacks it refutes - rather it’s the way it does so which makes this spot so brilliant. Instead of attempting to explain it point for point, I have just attached it below for you to take a look at and see for yourselves:

Now if this doesn’t show the Republicans for the absolute, and unabashed hypocrites that they are, and have been for the last 15 years, then I don’t know what would do the trick. It is wonderful to see their (the GOP) own words, or should I say - the words of their demigod (Reagan) used against them in a fashion this clip manages to unveil. I can picture it now - Sean Hannity curled up in a ball in the corner of his Ronald Reagan plastered bedroom, sucking his thumb furiously crying as though someone had just stolen his bike.