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The McCain Limbo Part II: How low can you go?
John McCain and the Republican Party are spending $140,000 a day to run their “Celebrity" ad against Barack Obama. That's $980,000 a week to point out the obvious, that Barack Obama is charismatic. What’s bizarre is that the ad is based on the premise that having charisma is a bad thing. Generally if someone has charisma it’s because that person has some kind of positive qualities. Barack Obama’s celebrity status derives from his own dynamic persona which includes intelligence, eloquence, and independence. These qualities, along with his ambition, have borne phenomenal political success where many doubted his chances. Obama’s use of his charismatic qualities and political success to eventually clinch the nomination created such a world-wide wave of media hysteria, to McCain it seems as though the media coverage is lopsided and he complains that it is lopsidedly pro-Obama as well. Now he apparently feels that he’s cornered by Obama’s snowballing charisma, and is taking the tactic of trying to spin it as a negative for being President. It is a twist that I never thought I’d live to see in politics, “Popular is bad”. What makes it seem even more bizarre is the fact that this tactic is being played by the party of Ronald Reagan, the same party that anointed the “Actor” President. Ronald Reagan, the same man who used his film career and star status to become first a Governor, and then President. It never seemed to bother the Gipper when anyone made references to his films and film characters, because he had to have recognized how valuable it had been to his political career. When the GOP and St. Ronald of Sacramento were doing it, celebrity status and fame were great and all the tax-cut loving, put the profits into shelters so nothing-trickles-down economics Republicans enjoyed great prosperity during the Reagan days. Life was good. In some respects, Barack Obama is running the same campaign as Ronald Reagan did when he ran against Jimmy Carter’s incumbent bid. Ronald Reagan was a very popular figure, with a “stage presence” he’d honed as one Hollywood’s Leading Men, and he promised change from the previous four years of being held hostage in Iran. On the issues of the day, Obama and Reagan couldn’t have been much further apart. But from the perspective that both candidates in their own time and circumstances represented the harbinger of change and both used their popularity to further their campaigns, and the similarities become even more striking. This election’s Republican candidate has tried to be charismatic, but he’s not too great at it. He tells bad jokes, and flip-flops like a gator in a side-show. He repeats the same thing over and over again, only differently all the time. I guess that’s why they dropped the “flip-flop” tactic for attacking Obama because it was starting to backfire. Before the focus had been that he was wrong for America because he was unpatriotic, then he was an elitist, and now it’s because he’s a celebrity who everyone likes, and that’s bad. Here’s a free tip for the GOP. Instead of dissin Obama, you should be giving your own man McCain props and loosen up a little bit. Why not try something young and trendy like a Hip-hop Johnny video, “Cuz he’s a tax-cuttin’ P-O-W with the POW-POW-POW-ER to lead, and a rich chick with plenty of beer, I said he scored a rich chick with plenty of beer. Now that’s popular. William S. James, Urban wannabee |
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