Bitterness And Plagiarism
I am starting to wonder about John McCain’s campaign, and exactly what they’re trying to accomplish with all these negative ads. McCain recently released two new ads: a new celebrity ad, this time sans the celebrities, to paint Obama as a celebrity who is out of touch with what Americans are suffering, and an ad that seems to be directly taken from one of Obama’s main planks. Now, it’s easy to see why McCain would want to attack Obama for having achieved celebrity status. McCain has been on capital hill for more than two decades and is yet to achieve the level of popularity Obama has gathered over the course of a couple of years. It’s very easy to see why McCain might be bitter about this. After all, in his two decades he’s clearly the underdog maverick right? It’s not like he married some woman with a huge amount of money, or had a military background to back him up, or years of working on Capitol Hill building his reputation. He’s the underdog! Unlike Obama, who’s new on the national political scene, black, no military experience, and hasn’t had long to really build the national connections that are so important. Not an underdog at all…
What I think is great about McCain’s new ad, the one that isn’t an attack on Obama’s celebrity status, is that it seems be a plagiarism of one of Obama’s biggest stances. The stance that Washington is broken, and that we need to take action now to fix it. Unfortunately for McCain, Obama has an advantage in that he hasn’t been sitting in the moral swamp that is Capital Hill for more than four years, and therefore hasn’t really shown that he’s part of the old political machine. McCain, who now claims that he’s the one to fix a broken Washington, has been sitting in this ethical quagmire for twenty-six years now, and hasn’t fixed anything. Even when he was working towards “ending” the influence of lobbyists, he was involved in an ethics scandal know as the Keating Five. While cleared of corruption charges, it certainly shows that even from early on McCain had gotten his feet wet with old politics, the exact thing he claims he will be fixing if he’s elected. One must wonder why McCain is only now realizing that Washington has become a haven for corrupt, partisan dealings and needs to be fixed, and why he hasn’t taken this stance for the past twenty or so years.
Tagged : keating five, obama, broken, mccain, corruption, ads
