I think someone needs to explain this ad to me. I just don’t get what Sen. John McCain is trying to say.
This NY Times blog item offers some speculation from other blogs, but the only thing I can come up with is this, from someone identified only as Peter, who offered this comment:
It seems that you can read it a few ways, but the most obvious to me seems blisteringly negative, and offensively so.
It may be my personal politics at play, but the only reason I can see for the insertion of that first, clumsy “American” is as a subtle dig at the most likely Democratic candidate’s American-ness.
It’s another tack on the bizarrely childish “Hussein” strategy.
I hope he’s wrong for no other reason than the “more American than the other guy” strategy is demeaning not only to Barack Obama, but to McCain and every potential voter in the country.
Another way of looking at this ad is to come straight out and say it lacks focus — sort of like the McCain campaign since he sewed up the nomination.
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