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The McCain campaign has released this new ad claiming that Barack Obama is the “Dr. No of energy security,” the theme of which is plagiarized from a 1962 film called James Bond And John McCain Score With Flappers. Old-timey cultural references aside, what the hell is that “energy security”? Why can’t someone oppose retarded things like the gas tax and domestic offshore drilling and not be held responsible for 9/11? Because of 9/11, of course. [YouTube]
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Barack Obama Is Also The ‘Jazz Singer’ Of Health Care Reform
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5:25 PM
on Wed June 25 2008
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Jim Newell
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Why is McCain making pro-Obama ads?
Should he really be highlighting that “off-shore drilling will not lower gas prices”? Why does he want to extend the lifetime of the “Obama makes the correct decisions” meme? What’s his secret diabolical plan? Tell us! For the love of Bond, tell us!
As I recall, Dr. No DID use nuclear power….
Sung to Simpson Scorpio
McCainiac!
He’ll bore you with his stories, of torture and Nam.
Beware of… McCainiac!
His twisted twin obsessions are his plot to bomb Iran
And his rapidly thinning hair.
He’ll welcome you into his lair
Like a suckup greeting his friends!
With some BBQ sauce and tax cuts to pump the debt!
But beware of his yellow cracked teeth
Plus his confusion about the issues
And on Fridays his folks say John McCain surfs the ‘net!
He’s aware of the ‘net!
When does Obama come back with an ad comparing McCain to a character in “Birth of a Nation?”
What? McCain was actually in that movie? Oh … nevermind.
I fully support Hank Scorpio for prez.
I had no idea you could make a James Bond intro that couldn’t be masturbated to.
edgydrifter:
Jinx
It is always a good idea to start out an add that is supposed to attack your opponent by featuring a quote that is absolutely true.
ManchuCandidate: jinx!
Dammit!
Does this campaign have to make everything a reference to something pre-1985?
When does Michelle Obama do Octopussy? - is what I want to know.
John McCain’s story begins in nineteen-dickitty-two! He had to say ‘dickitty’ because the Kaiser had stolen the word ‘twenty’.
They should ask the villagers of Trunobal or around 3 mile Island about “Clean, Safe Nuclear Energy.”
Do McMaverick’s supporters know what the YouTube is? Or are they just ‘aware’ of it like McMaverick is? Oh, I bet all of them have their rich trophy wives pull up things on the YouTube for them.
“John McCain is offering the same old gimmicks” = “No to innovation, No to the Electric Car”?
There’s a fine bit of close reading. How about:
“I didn’t love America until I was deprived of her company” = “I WANT TO NUKE YOU ALL!!”
Paultardville: Hey! McCain has Franz Ferdinand’s support.
Wait … apparently it isn’t the group. McCain used to be part of the Archduke’s naval security detail.
so is Jimmy Carter or George H.W. Bush the one-movie Bond that no one remembers?
Now I’d like to see the McCain team of video crackerjacks come out with a “My Mother The Car” themed ad.
NebraskashireGentry: Well anyway, McCain was heading to take the ferry over to Ogdenville, which is what they called shelbyville back in those days. He had an onion tied to his belt, which was the style at the time. He remembered that the ferry cost one bee, which is what nickels had on them back then. ‘Gimme five bees for a quarter’ he’d use to say to the ferryman…
Marcel Parcells: Since I’m guessing she’s a matcing-collar-and-cuffs type, I’d say MO’d make a great Tiffany Case.
Obama should come out with an Austin Powers-esque ad starring Bush as Dr. Evil and McCain as Mini-me.
Wait, isn’t Ron Paul the actual Dr. No? Why is John McCain’s campaign foolishly pushing the Paultards into the arms of their new hero, Barry?
masterofzen: Paultards love Barry?
There are two types of Paultards:
1. I live in mom’s basement and am voting for WALNUTS.
2. ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” Barry.
Its a pretty even split I think.
If there’s gonna be a Bond-based spot, it should feature both candydates: Hopey and Dopey, in that order. They can co-star.
“To Live & Let Die.”
I was going to make a joke about James Bond Stockdale until wikipedia told me that he died three years ago. Oh crap. Sorry about your death, sir. Loved you in ‘92. You debated with Dan Quayle and Al Gore.
You were also really brave when you were a prisoner of war in Vietnam for SEVEN YEARS in the Hanoi Hilton. Your medal of honor said: “Recognized by his captors as the leader in the Prisoners’ of War resistance to interrogation and in their refusal to participate in propaganda exploitation, Rear Adm. Stockdale was singled out for interrogation and attendant torture”.
You later published a collection of love letters to your wife from the Hanoi Hilton. How many others have done the same? *cough cough*
wheelie: I get your drift and hereby call for a public keelhauling of the traitor McArnold aboard the good ship Raging Queen.
The offshore oil, or other resources obtained by drilling do not belong to us. They belong to whoever does the drilling. That means the Dutch (Shell), Saudis (Aramco), and others. Unless McCranky’s plan is to only let U.S. companies drill, and forbid the exporting of those products. Why doesn’t anyone ask him what his plan is to keep someone from drilling and then sending the resources overseas? It could be good to see how much he knows about economics…oh, wait he already said he doesn’t know much. I’m sure someone is thinking about it though.
It’s hilarious, they tried to make him look like a James Bond nemesis (Mr. Tu-Tu) but Obama came out looking good, again. Nice try though.
nbawriter: Silly person. McCain posed for cave art. He was too old for “Birth Of A Nation”! His first role was an uncredited appearance in a cave in France as “Guy #3 flinging spear at mastodon in pit”.
Actually John McCain opposes the retarded gas tax and wants to lower it over the summer. Obama supports the tax.
Its always a few degrees hotter when Obama is in town. He is such a sexy beast.
I remember vividly how John McCain tried to introduce a gas tax holiday into congress, but Dr. Nobama buried him in a giant anthill just outside the capitol building…
There’s a subtle GENIUS to this ad that seems to be bypassing the krew here. Look, if, like Walnuts, you have already spent about half your federal guaranteed money and are now looking forward to being outspent like five to one and probably beaten five times worse than Bob Dole, you’d AT LEAST look for creative ways to maximise summer ad impact, and this is really creative, in its way.
How do you grab attention? How about putting out the WORST pre-convention ads, ever? Are you or are you not now eagerly anticipating the next McCain ad? How bad will it be? OOoooh, you can’t wait. Think “Springtime for Hitler.” Genius.
Canmon (the Inadequate): Yay retarded gas tax! It pays for things I like, like roads. Silly, silly WALNUTS. Why do you hate infrastructure so? And you should know better than to oppose a tax that helps employ thousands of blue collars, aren’t you trying to woo the hardworking Americans?
But perhaps the unemployed blue collars will forgive you when they save that $30. After all, you are the American candidate from America for Americans who love America. AMERICA!!!
Cicada: Psh, roads are overrated. Who wants to go places? Traitors, gays, Commies and terrorists–that’s who. ‘Mericuns, real ones, are happy to live their days in the same holler what birthed ‘em.
shortsshortsshorts: I assume Paultards might vote for Barry in a PUMA-esque revenge ploy against Hated McCain and his evil RNC scheme to steal their rightful victory. And Dr. President Paul hates Energy Security as well, because he hates all things the government is behind except restrictive abortion laws.
But if Obama wins the election he will make the United States into a United Arab Emirate and we will get lots of free oil and gas from the homeland. Plus the hookers are cheap (and they come with something a little extra) in Dubai. Trust me on this.
masterofzen: shortshortshorts is a self generating spam macro (which is the only logical explanation for the rapidity of his (its) posts). responding to the macro is futile.
masterofzen: You are awesome.
American Dreamer: Only after 8 eastern time.
I have to say, though: so far, best season of political ads, ever.
masterdebater: Reader’s Letters to InPeeArghh! on that very topic:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91891834 (~0:33)
Dr. No:
Born in Peking, he was the son of a German Methodist missionary and a Chinese girl, but was raised by his Aunt.
Hopey:
Obama was born. . . to Barack Obama, Sr., of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, a White American from Wichita, Kansas.
. . . live(d) with his maternal grandparents.
Coincidence? No?
schvitzatura: I think we should burn the fucker at the stake, personally.
shortsshortsshorts: I’m sorry to speak of your uncle in such a derogative way.
American Dreamer: “the hookers are cheap (and they come with something a little extra) in Dubai” It’s a dead heat. Jamacane sez hookers are cheaper in Subic Bay, so there, snarky pants! Also, who cares if the Dubais come with a little extra? Who wants to give anything extra to a hooker, as per your first argument. Who cares if a hooker comes at all? Like maybe her aunt, who raised her?
I see a similarity between this ad and the stupid Norm Coleman ad.(the ambiguity of the adjective-noun relationship is deliberate) That is, they got nothin’.
Paid for by SPECTRE–the Special Electioneers for Terrorism, Revenge, Counter-Intelligence and Extortion.
When I was young, I always thought Neil Diamond was singing “Reverend Blue Jeans”. Hee-hee. Just a Jazz Singer snark.
American Dreamer: Damn, I’ve been visiting Dubai for all the wrong reasons. I’ve been going there because I heard the hookahs were cheap. Which is good, but how many does one need?
Servo: Oh, shit! This “Reverend Blue Jeans” isn’t another radical preacher, is he? Barry don’t need more religious confusion!
hopeforbill:
I don’t think there should be any cause for alarm if his blue jeans are clad with butterfly iron-ons. Now, if they’re Carhartt…
He’s also the “Dr. Zhivago” of International Diplomacy?
He’s the “Citizen Kane” of Civil Rights?
He’s the “Island of Dr. Moreau” of Climate Change?
He’s the “Ishtar” of Middle-East Policy?
Should I go on?
Servo: This may be a new cult. Reverend Blue Jeans could be the pope for Mr. Green Jeans, the Jeebus of the Kanga/Roo movement. As long as no one wears anything other than a straw had on their head, it may have mass Boomer Bitter appeal!
Well, I for one was relieved that they didn’t do that whole “crosshairs + scope” graphic that is inevitably part of every James Bond title sequence.
I bet they THOUGHT about it, though.
How can he possibly be qualified to be president? He does not even know how to pronounced NUKE-U-LAR.