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The sequels are never as good as the originals.
The McCain campaign has released a sequel to Barack Obama: Antichrist Pimp, which, like any good B-movie, is just extra footage from another movie spliced into the first web ad.
Offhand, I had a veepstakes dream last night. Evan Bayh was the choice, then he ended up accidentally killing a guy in a fight the night before he was supposed to be announced. He hid the guy’s body in Obama’s downstairs coat closet, which led to your standard dark comedy hijinks and “guys of different races come together” buddy comedy. There were also some really unnecessary elements of Weekend at Bernie’s tossed in there, with a twist of blackmail thriller from the amateur photographer who got shots of Obama toting around the corpse. Which, oddly enough, was played by a slumming Michael Caine.
UPDATE: Oh, this is bullshit.
A campaign official said that the decision to Go Rezko was Obama’s. “He’s opened the door to this,” the official said.
The ad will be released to network news divisions in time for their broadcasts tonight.
Though McCain is widely perceived to to drawn first blood by attacking Obama’s character, the official said that the difference between Obama’s mocking McCain for his wealth and his shaky answer on the number of homes he owns was that McCain’s charge “reflects an existential reality,” where Obama’s charges “attack Cindy. She owns the homes. I thought he said the wives were off-limits.”
“John McCain got a wife! A wife, motherfucker! And she owns shit! This is crazy! This shit is crazy! TONY REZKO, BITCHES!”
- Dave Chappelle, campaign spokesperson
I enjoy the “existential reality” of Obama hating America vs. the entirely off limits discussion of which of the four to thirteen mansions that McCain’s family owns are really his, as opposed to his wife’s. It’s good to see that the McCain campaign’s response to the first punch he’s caught is to go apeshit nuclear out of the gate. He may go Taxi Driver on us by the time this is said and done.
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Jesse Taylor on 03:32 PM •
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The housing thing obviously hurt McCain. Hes going berzerk.
“Which, oddly enough, was played by a slumming Michael Caine”
How can you tell the slumming Caine form the regular Caine? Johnathan Pyrce in C&C;Red Alert 3:slumming. But Micheal Caine was in Jaws:The Revenge!
Wasn’t Antichrist Pimp the name of a blaxploitation film starring Richard Roundtree? And wasn’t Pam Grier in it too?…
At least Michael Caine never did any pointless Infiniti commercials. Nah nah nah…
Get that Rezko shit all out now. This “I’m not rich, I just sleep with a rich woman” crap will not stand.
So, Senator McCain, you’re saying that you’re a kept man who lives off his wife’s wealth, and you don’t own any home of your own? (What other interpretation could there be if any question about his houses is an attack on his wife?)
I’m sure that’ll go over well with the “a wife must submit to her husband” base…
I know I’m an optimist, but I have to believe that if they keep up the hysterical reaction to any questions about Cindy’s money, somebody in the press will start thinking “hmm, what are they hiding?”
October has come early this year!
Where are we now as far as dirty campaign level? DEFCON 2?
Existential void where prohibited.
But MikeEss, I fell in love because of the Infiniti commercials. Mr. Dark can sell me overpriced automobiles any day!
So, Senator McCain, you’re saying that you’re a kept man who lives off his wife’s wealth…
Can’t believe they actually went there about Cindy owning the McMansions. That’s not a direction they want to be going. Man, these days the McLame campaign is the gift that keeps on giving. Does Obama have a mole in the enemy camp?
Is it just me, or did this campaign suddenly get screamingly, hilariously fun today?
Jeez, McCain’s going this ballistic over the houses issue? They keep this up, by the time of the Repub Convention, they’ll just be showing old Amos ‘n Andy episodes, asking if America really wants President Kingfish.
“They keep this up, by the time of the Repub Convention, they’ll just be showing old Amos ‘n Andy episodes, asking if America really wants President Kingfish.”
...the sad thing is that strategy might even work. It certainly would for far too many of our fellow Americans…
Wow. Just, wow. They’re actually painting Bill Ayers as proto-9/11. Barack Obama: Wanted 9/11 to happen.
McDonnell-Douglas:
I’m loving it.
Oh, so McCain doesn’t own ANY houses. And he couldn’t even remember that???
And the 527s are coming out of the starting gate with a bang. The “American Issues Project,” which has cobbled up a William Ayres/Obama/Weather Underground screed, has no contact names or organizational list on its Web site except for one person who is the press contact. I’d love to know who is bankrolling that bunch. Their “issues” are standard right-wing boilerplate about small government and “uniquely American values” (because nobody in any other country cares about being safe, having a strong economy, or any of that other “uniquely American” stuff).
I wish McCain would just get it over with and announce that the Damned Soul of Lee Atwater is his new chief campaign strategist. Karl Rove is too much of a wimp for that position.
Shorter McCain: “You saw it! As a former POW, it was him who made me call him a n-”
Is it just me, or did this campaign suddenly get screamingly, hilariously fun today?
Yeah. Timed perfectly for the end of the gymnastics, when (if history’s to judge) Americans start turning off the Olympics. (More pity to them.)
Buckle in...looks like things are about to get a little bumpy....
And the 527s are coming out of the starting gate with a bang. The “American Issues Project,” which has cobbled up a William Ayres/Obama/Weather Underground screed, has no contact names or organizational list on its Web site except for one person who is the press contact. I’d love to know who is bankrolling that bunch. Their “issues” are standard right-wing boilerplate about small government and “uniquely American values” (because nobody in any other country cares about being safe, having a strong economy, or any of that other “uniquely American” stuff).
No campaign finance violations here kids. Look the other way. The American Issues Project just happens to be concerned with issues. This should in no way be construed as an entirely partisan attack ad against Obama. Everything is totally above board. Please do not look behind the curtain. Big Oil and Big Jesus are jacking off back there and its not a pretty sight.
This is HILARIOUS! Obama hits McCain on his “Bush at the supermarket scanner” moment, and they come back with “but..but..Obama is a terrorist who’s also in the mafia and in league with black supremacists! And when he makes fun of John McCain not knowing how many houses he has, he’s really making fun of Mrs. McCain who bought those houses!”
They used to be good at this character assasination thing. But I think terrorist/black supremacist/mafia guy--these attacks are not very credible one at a time. All together? It really does move from desperate into comical.
Why not throw in “my opponent is a known philatelist!” while they’re at it?
If Johnny Mac can prove Cindy doesn’t let him use her houses, I’ll agree that the Obama campaign is out of line here.
“Why not throw in “my opponent is a known philatelist!” while they’re at it?”
He’s also a cunning linguist and a habitual masticator…
the most ominous event for obama has to be that maliki guy tricking bush into a timetable. mccain never would’ve let that happen!
...I know it won’t happen, but in an otherwise perfect world, the network news divisions would fling Huggy Bear’s new “Rezko” ad out the nearest window and cheerfully suggest he spend his own money if he wants to see it on TV…
What a lovely world that would be…
are you talking to me ???
cuz I don’t see anybody else here, so you must be talking to me
Weren’t these the same Repubs who called John Kerry “a gigolo” because he married a wealthy woman?
Turnabout’s a bitch, isn’t it?
Wow. Cindy made him sign a pre-nup?
The sequels are never as good as the originals
Well, except for The Godfather, Part 2. And The Empire Strikes Back. And.....
Barack Obama matriculated at Harvard and his wife is a well-known thespian.
:Well, except for The Godfather, Part 2. And The Empire Strikes Back. And..... “
Star Trek II, Superman II, Spiderman 2, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Casino Royale, The Dark Knight, and of course Breakin’ 2:Electric Bugaloo.
And Tranformers 2 will need to be really fucked up not to match the inanity of Transformers!
LEAVE CINDY McCAIN AND HER HOUSES ALONE!!!!!!
Those houses are slept in by a FORMER POW!!! Have you no decency???!
ALL YOU MANSIONS ARE BELONG TO US.
So, Senator McCain, you’re saying that you’re a kept man who lives off his wife’s wealth…
Can’t believe they actually went there about Cindy owning the McMansions. That’s not a direction they want to be going. Man, these days the McLame campaign is the gift that keeps on giving. Does Obama have a mole in the enemy camp?
Either that, or Barack Obama is Bugs Bunny to McCain’s Yosemite Sam.
Oh, so McCain doesn’t own ANY houses. And he couldn’t even remember that???
Noun Verb POW! Noun Verb POW! Oh, crap, it’s not working!
Seriously, McCain’s already in dire danger of wearing out the mojo in his POW stick by shaking it too much and at the slightest provocation. It’s rapidly turning into the same joke that Giuliani’s incessant invocation of 9/11 became. Keep it up, Ace!
Is it just me, or did this campaign suddenly get screamingly, hilariously fun today?
I’ve tried not to burst out into fits of guffawing for about, oh, ten hours now.
By the way: It’s now up to EIGHT houses. So far.
What this really shows us is how McCain would run a cover-up once he was in the White House. Pretty much as brazen as Bush, but one hell of a lot more entertaining. Imagine if, instead of Ari Fleischer, Bush’s first Press Secretary had been Denis Leary.
One other thing:
I think the quote is wrong: surely he meant “reflects an existential *realty*,” right?
It’s a darn good thing the McCain’s have a private jet, otherwise, think of the problems they’d have visiting all 12 of them.
Not only is RICH RICH RICH now in the datastream where it will engulf POW POW POW, it also turns ELITE ELITE ELITE into a joke.
They have no choice but to respond to this, but it only makes it more persistent.
They’re scared, and they should be: the first casualty of RICH RICH RICH was John Edwards--but this is weaponized grade.
John is old, he’s ignorant, he’s not going to help you out of this economic nightmare--those are all good.
But RICH RICH RICH John McCain will kill him.
Cue Letterman: How Rich is John McCain?
And then hit them with:
Do RICH RICH RICH John and Cindy McCain even know how the middle class lives?
Of course they do!
All John has to do is look at his first wife, and Cindy at her two half-sisters!
RiCH RICH RICH RICH RICH!
Ya know how most rich men, married into wealth or comfortably wealthy themselves, retire into golf, or tennis, or becoming the head of the Arabian Horse Show Association? Or Major League Baseball?
Is that how McCain is viewing this “Presidency” thing?
“ ..Cindy. She owns the homes.”
So John McCain, Vietnam Vet and former POW is HOMELESS?
Now *that* would be amazing; the first homeless US president. And with his budget proposals, he’ll be trying to cadge some spare change from tourists over on the Mall, so maybe it’s fitting.
The $500 shoes are a bit of cognitive dissonance though. Does Cindy own them too, or did John find them in a dumpster?
Why not throw in “my opponent is a known philatelist!” while they’re at it?
That should get the McCain campaign’s stamp of approval, no problem!
I can’t believe they are trying to communicate to the public with phrases like “existential reality.” Sacré bleu. Apparently we are all Georgians.
After all the punditry about “gigolo” Kerry and his rich wife? Please don’t tell me McCain is stupid enough to keep this meme alive. Wow. Well, as my friends said of my last fling with a younger man, “There’s no fool like an old fool!” And you can’t get much older than John or me. Or more of a fool than he.
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The housing thing obviously hurt McCain. Hes going berzerk.