McCain's The Arrogant One
by Chris Edelson

Here's the latest from McCain's sputtering, out of ideas, desperate "campaign".  He's clumsily trying to paint Barack Obama as "arrogant" in a new ad that oddly juxtaposes images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton with Obama. (I was reminded of the race-baiting ads used against Tennessee senate candidate Harold Ford). 

As usual, the media press corps stenographers are happy to cooperate by playing McCain's ad over and over, then helpfully explaining that McCain wants to depict Obama as arrogant, but declining to ask basic questions like (1) why is this relevant? (2) what is McCain's motive in making this attack and (3) what's really going on here? 

It's pretty obvious what's going on.  McCain is transparently trying to change the election's dynamic, which has him strugging to stay relevant.  McCain has been trailing in the polls for weeks and even Republican insiders are worried that McCain has lost his way (one McCain adviser called the new ad "childish".).  Obama just went on a world tour where world leaders endorsed his policies and praised his judgment while 200,000 turned out to hear him speak.  McCain can't beat Obama on the merits so he has resorted to throwing muck.  But you won't hear anyone on NBC point out any of this context–Brian Williams and Chuck Todd are content merely to give McCain a megaphone.

A real journalist might notice that McCain has a record of arrogance.   Nubile young white women may not appear next to McCain in campaign ads, but the senator from Arizona has arrogantly declared: "I know how to win wars" (exactly which wars would those be?  the media has never bothered to ask).  He arrogantly dismisses Obama's judgment on Iraq as irrelevant, despite the fact that Obama got the most important decision–whether to go to war–right.  McCain arrogantly presumes that Americans voters, who favor Obama in the polls, are too dumb to realize they are being taken in.  In the 1980s, McCain arrogantly told federal regulators to lay off his money man, Charles Keating (that one didn't work out too well).

I have more faith in American voters than Mccain does.  I think they know very well what a mess this country is in, after 7 years of the Bush administration.  They know the Iraq war was a mistake and is a quagmire, and that McCain promises to continue the failed policy there.  They know that Bush's economic policies are a disaster, and that McCain will continue the failed Bush approach of tax cuts for the wealthy and everyone else is on their own.  And they know that the desperate "arrogant" attack is BS–about 2/3 of Americans say Obama is not arrogant.  They're right–he's not arrogant, he's winning. 

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