Not Afraid to Call Out the Craziness

Salon War Room has a post up with videos, including the one below, created by Bring Back Ohio, a 527 group working to turn Ohio back to a blue state this November. The whole series (Salon has 3 more up) are all pretty good, but this one is my favorite.



The bar room jokey tone is an interesting departure from the feel of so much political advertising, but I, for one, think that it works. How about you?

Appropriate preamble to debate drinking games? I think so!

From Upside-Down World: The Presidential Ticket That Fights Republicans...

There's a new ad out this week from the McCain campaign, still pushing for John McCain to be seen as Mr. McMaverick, new and improved, now with extra Palin Power! My question and problem is this: do people who care about his once independent streak, and care about change really believe McCain is still the same change agent he once was?

If you knew nothing of context here and simply watched the ad below, what party would you believe these two are part of? Probably not the Republicans, right? Still, if you listened to the speeches at the GOP convention last week there wasn't exactly a lot of policy laid out that sounded all that new or different from the same ideas Bushie & Co. have been rolling around for years. So wazzup?

I'll give them this, it sure is a jazzy little ad, tantalizing like, say, a fancy speech might be to some. But what is it worth, if the Maverick storyline is either entirely in the past or largely trumped-up?



Weigh in, let me know what you think of the Original Mavericks!!!