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McCain's New Complaint About Obama: Young People Like Him

McCain's latest attack ads are trying to paint Obama as the rockstar candidate for the youngsters who don't know squat.
August 13, 2008  |  
 
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Jake Tapper of ABC apparently accepts the premise that blondness, whiteness, and femaleness are the point of McCain's endless succession of anti-Obama ads -- this one, for instance.

How many young white women professing adoration for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, can you count in this anti-Obama web video that the campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, was sending out yesterday?
One ... two ... three ... four ... sure are a lot of young white women in this thing....
But I think Kevin Hayden nails the real meaning -- and the proper response:

Steve M. blogs at No More Mister Nice Blog.

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