McCain = Bush. It's not that complicated:
A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged an embrace during a faith forum at a California megachurch, Obama called the U.S. economy a disaster thanks to "John McCain's president, George W. Bush," and chided his Republican rival's campaign team for trying to make him look unpatriotic and weak."John McCain's President, George Bush." Perfect.
The punditry will be in a tizzy over this perceived attack on McCain by Obama. But, all he did was link McCain to Bush -- and those two are inextricably linked. It's almost going to be fun to see how the Republicans attack Obama for tying McCain to Bush.
Obama wasn't finished with McCain:
But Sunday, after praising the Arizona senator as a "genuine American patriot," the Democratic presidential hopeful got back to business — methodically tearing into McCain's health care, tax and energy policies and criticizing his advisers.The same team that brought you Bush wants to give you McCain. It's like that Karl Rove-led team trying for a third Bush term. Wow. What a great message.
"McCain says 'Here's my plan, I'm going to drill here, drill now which is something he only came up with two months ago when he started looking at polling," Obama said of McCain's energy policy.
The GOP hopeful has become a vocal proponent of offshore oil drilling as a way to ease U.S. dependence on foreign oil and has criticized Obama for failing to embrace it as a way to help bring down oil prices. Obama noted that McCain had long opposed lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling.
The Illinois senator also criticized McCain's advisers as "the same old folks that brought you George W. Bush. The same team." He noted many had been lobbyists in Washington before McCain asked them to sever all lobbying ties.
Now, if only Obama's very well paid media consultants could figure out how to make decent ads linking McCain to Bush, we might be getting somewhere. That brain trust, led by Jim Margolis of GMMB, has been pumping out pretty generic, boring ads -- how they make Obama look generic and boring is beyond me. (According to the NY Times during the primaries, "The Obama campaign, for example, paid $85 million to GMMB, a media consulting firm. But $69 million of that was used to buy advertising time, which means that much of the money paid to GMMB ended up at local television and radio stations.") That's a pretty damn good haul. Can anyone remember one of Obama's ads from the primaries? The Obama media consultants all need to study CartwrightDale's superb ad on YouTube. That clip is the best thing I've seen yet -- and CartwrightDale wasn't paid millions to do it.
Now that Obama is linking Bush to McCain, keep it up. Make this part of every speech. Every Obama campaign staffer and surrogate needs to say George Bush's name over and over and over. Don't every say "This administration" or "This President." Say the name George Bush and tie him to McCain.
Bush = McCain = Bush. Never miss a chance to link Bush to McCain. Ever. That's what this campaign is about.
