Comments on: The ad Obama should run http://centerblue.org/365/the-ad-obama-should-run/ Center-left commentary for a world in trouble Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:19:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joe http://centerblue.org/365/the-ad-obama-should-run/comment-page-1/#comment-14171 Joe Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:12:42 +0000 http://centerblue.org/?p=365#comment-14171 It is ad hominem, but whatever. The point is that if you're going to accuse your opponent of out-of-touch elitism, don't be surprised if you get hit hard for hypocrisy. He is attempting to paint Obama as elitist and himself as the cozy guy who understands everyone's economic problems. His little gaffe showed him for the fake he is: an elitist if there ever was one, who married into a $100 million fortune and can't keep track of all his properties. This hits McCain from every angle: --it makes him look as old and out of touch as Bush 1 did with his checkout scanner incident in '92; --the hundreds of thousands of people losing their homes, and those who know them, are not likely to think that someone who can't keep track of his houses is going to understand their problems; --McCain's exposed hypocrisy totally destroyed the "theme" he was trying to portray for Obama. I have no problems with rich people being politicians. I do have a problem with hypocrisy....so really, you must forgive me for chortling at McCain skewering himself on his own petard. It is ad hominem, but whatever.

The point is that if you’re going to accuse your opponent of out-of-touch elitism, don’t be surprised if you get hit hard for hypocrisy. He is attempting to paint Obama as elitist and himself as the cozy guy who understands everyone’s economic problems. His little gaffe showed him for the fake he is: an elitist if there ever was one, who married into a $100 million fortune and can’t keep track of all his properties.

This hits McCain from every angle:

–it makes him look as old and out of touch as Bush 1 did with his checkout scanner incident in ’92;

–the hundreds of thousands of people losing their homes, and those who know them, are not likely to think that someone who can’t keep track of his houses is going to understand their problems;

–McCain’s exposed hypocrisy totally destroyed the “theme” he was trying to portray for Obama.

I have no problems with rich people being politicians. I do have a problem with hypocrisy….so really, you must forgive me for chortling at McCain skewering himself on his own petard.

]]> By: Eric http://centerblue.org/365/the-ad-obama-should-run/comment-page-1/#comment-14170 Eric Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:30:30 +0000 http://centerblue.org/?p=365#comment-14170 Except that there has really not been a poor presidential candidate since George Washington; that includes McCain, Obama, Kerry, Gore, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Carter, etc. Calling out one for having four houses really doesn't work if the other one flies around in a custom jumbo jet. Do you actually believe this is a reasonable criticism, or are you just on the Democratic payroll? I would have expected a Cornell graduate to be slightly better at critical thinking... I apologize if you consider that to be ad hominem, but I am legitimately curious. Feel free to delete this paragraph if you don't want it posted to your site. Except that there has really not been a poor presidential candidate since George Washington; that includes McCain, Obama, Kerry, Gore, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Carter, etc. Calling out one for having four houses really doesn’t work if the other one flies around in a custom jumbo jet.

Do you actually believe this is a reasonable criticism, or are you just on the Democratic payroll? I would have expected a Cornell graduate to be slightly better at critical thinking… I apologize if you consider that to be ad hominem, but I am legitimately curious. Feel free to delete this paragraph if you don’t want it posted to your site.

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