Friday, April 4, 2008

John McCain will rat you out

I rather enjoyed this quote about John McCain's newest television ad: "Obama, if he’s the Democratic nominee, wants to make the campaign about the past vs. the future. Oddly enough, McCain seems to want to do the same thing." This new John McCain ad is simply the most bizarre ad I've seen by a serious American politician since I've started following politics. Even Mike Gravel's infamous "Rock" ad isn't nearly as strange--maybe Mike was angry and just wanted to throw the rock into the lake? I'm just kidding--Mike Gravel's ad is like something out of a David Lynch movie.

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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.