Obama’s Doppelgänger - Update
August 1, 2008 2:19 am American PoliticsYour faithful correspondent received the following update to the earlier post on this topic.
First, I find it interesting that someone in the McCain camp came up with the same idea around the time that I did. This means the idea has traction, and the notion of Obama being “too cool” to have substance can spread. It reminds me of when his campaign was scrambling to not have any women with Islamic head coverings appear on stage behind him and at the same time they were fighting a controversy surrounding his Church’s pastor. Having to fight negative perceptions on two religious fronts only happens when the public does not trust how genuine your religious beliefs are.
Second, we now have a new litmus test for how successful a McCain strategy is: if Obama supporters call it racist, then we know they don’t have a legitimate comeback.
Would this guy really think McCain would run an attack add comparing Obama to Oprah, a beloved American and one of his most ardent supporters? I doubt he is that stupid.
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Arran Gold
Nicola Timmerman :
Date: August 1, 2008 @ 5:14 am
I find it very strange that the McCain camp, nor anyone else has used a clip of the moment in Barack’s Berlin speech where there was an Arab or African ululating to hail Obama. Barack just laughed. I found it a very bizarre moment, a dhimmi moment.
It was just after he said his father had been a goatherder from Kenya. (By the way does he ever mention his white grandfather who seems to have been highly educated and paid for Obama’s private school education in part?)