New Anti-Obama Smear Ad Shows McCain Support for Child Molesters and Pedophiles
"In airing this ad, McCain has done something I never thought I would see: He has sponsored a new television commercial that effectively declares his support for child molestor rights.
"I'm dead serious here: The ad explicitly criticizes Obama for supporting state legislation that the Kansas City Star notes was designed to give "schools the ability to warn young children about inappropriate touching and sexual predators."
"So by basic logical deduction, then, McCain's ad attacking Obama for supporting that bill means McCain would have opposed it - meaning he would have taken the side of the Pedophilia Lobby that wants young children to not understand when they are being molested. I'm wondering - is there a NAMBLA endorsement in the works for McCain? The Arizona senator sure seems to be courting that interest group with this latest declaration.
"Of course, McCain's ad is aimed at pushing the kind of cultural populism Republicans have been using for at least a generation. In this case, McCain is willing to put himself on record as supporting child molesters, as long as it helps him depict Obama as not just a child molester supporter, but a child molester himself - which is what the ad's voiceover basically suggests when it hysterically implies State Senator Obama tried to fondle small schoolchildren while whispering sweet porn nothings into their ear.
"Put into pop culture terms, this is McCain's effort to turn the 2008 presidential campaign into the infamous Different Strokes child molester episode - starring Barack Obama as the guy kneeling in this picture.
"On Rachel's show last night, we discussed how Obama can - and should - respond to this kind of cultural populism. I reiterated that, in general, he needs to do what I suggested in a newspaper column a few months back: namely, voice strong economic populist themes that keep the campaign debate focused on the issues of most import, and that Democrats win on.
"In specifically responding to this ad, I told Rachel that Obama has to learn a lesson from perhaps the most famous of failed methods of responding to such issues - the one from the 1988 presidential debate, where Michael Dukakis answered Bernard Shaw's question about raping and murdering Kitty Dukakis not with an emotional attack on Shaw's inappropriate inquiry, but with dispassionate platitudes. Watch that moment here:
"If Obama reacts forcefully and emotionally to McCain's ad - not through a spokesman but on his own - he could make this ad and the right's whole cultural populist meme backfire on McCain. But that's a big if."
The Obama campaign replied to McSame's reprehensible ad this way: "Bill Burton, Obama's press secretary, responded in a statement: 'It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited political attack against a father of two young girls “a position that his friend Mitt Romney also holds. Last week, John McCain told Time magazine he couldn't define what honor was. Now we know why.'




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