This implication here? You embraced ignorance just like the Republican ad. Bravo.

It is strange to me how much things have shifted since the great defining moments of our early history, how the Republican party has become it's own opposite and how two forces (The Republican Party and the Democratic Party) that existed to keep each other in check have now turned into raging dualistic forces that find themselves in constant strife with one another.

Perhaps this has always been so, and my naive lack of direct experience with history is the cause for my wonder, but I kind of feel sometimes like we are in a political Civil War, and I wonder if it is ever going to become so tense that it boils into an actual one.

But maybe in some ways it already has, seeing as how war is really different now, with people fighting ideas instead of countries and using guile, trickery, and treachery instead of focusing so much on brute force.

Personally it is hard for me not to view Republicans as one of the most vile and evil forces on Earth, but the fact is that many of them are people and they came by it honestly by what was handed down to them. Do people really have a choice if they aren't aware that they do?

I'm guessing that if politicians acted in the interest of the people they represent, rather than themselves, then the idealistic view of the party system would exist.

Then, I guess, I'm guilty.

I myself have realised that Obama is a celeberty far beyond the ordenary for a politican. I honor, that this is not mainly his fault, but that of the stupid media, but - whatever. Now if I had to call two celeberties, that stand for fame without doing or being anything to justify that, than it would be Miss Spears and Hilton. So by comparing his fame to theirs, the image of "useless but famous" diffuses onto him, to. I see no conection to the race or gender of the involved persons, nor would I know any black celeberties who could carry this massage like Spears or Hilton, nor would I think about that.

And that part about "FOREIGN" part - now you are kidding, right??!!
1. His face is there almost the whole time.
2. It does not say "foreign" without saying "oil" exactly as long. And "more forreign oil" is the key point of the argumentarion in 1/2 the spot.

I think this spot works like that bottle with dolphins that checks, whether you have a dirrty mind. - Just that this spot checks whether you are a racist/racist-hypersensitive.

The main problem as I see it is the people behind the candidates. Those individuals and the parties are who the candidates work for. I doubt there is a Senator or Congressman who really cares about any one of us. We are not important. If we were so important, they would vote against the oil companies tax breaks, etc... Republican and Democrat are basically the same. They same money goes into both parties pockets.

The Republicans have been horrible, but the Democrats have done nothing to stop them.

I always find it funny how "higher taxes!" is such a big important thing. I mean, it's really one of my last concerns when everything else is going to shit.

dolphins? where?

Yeah, really. They act like he murdered somebody.

nixon was a dick, regan was a dick, willie horton was a dick. The obama add was insulting but not racist. And as much as i like obama, anybody who takes a crybaby stance and picks apart things for little insults a victim is not strong enough to be president.

Im sure those guys on the dollar bills would have just ignored it or duked it out.

i believe he's forced to take a stance on things like this, on account of the media questioning anything and everything, then questioning his stance, the "people's" reaction to his stance, then his reaction to their reaction. and so on. the coverage has been making dizzy as of late

That's exactly FTR's point. They have plausible deniability. They can say "oh, but that was just about the oil". But when you make an ad like that, things don't just happen by coincidence. They are meticulously planned. I mean, just ask yourself why they show his face that much at all.

I don't believe for a second they didn't know exactly what they were doing when they put his face up with the word "foreign".

I read the McCain ad as insinuating the Obama might be the Anti-Christ.

FTR's troll image would come in handy in a response to attack ads.

More than one of the dudes on U.S. currency paid to have partisan newspapers slander their opponents. Just sayin'.

Oh, and I'm sure you're as equally upset at the McCain campaign for taking a "crybaby stance" about how the Democrats are "talking in code" about McCain's age, right?