HAH! MY REBUTTAL TO A McCAIN AD

I think Hannity played a bit of McCain's new ad that tries to portray Obama as celebrity out of touch with regular Americans. As Jonathan Chait pointed out, this is a standard GOP argument because the GOP can't debate the issues and has to manufacture some kind of character issue to win.

It has this line:

"Life in the spotlight must be grand, but for the rest of us, times are tough," a grim-voiced female narrator says over arena shots and magazine covers of Obama before outlining his purported intent to raise taxes on the middle class, small businesses and seniors.

All you have to do is remind people what Phil Gramm, formerly one of McCain's senior economic advisors, said not too long ago before he was thrown under the bus:

“We have sort of become a nation of whiners,”

I also very much like the Obama Campaign's no-nonsense response:

Spokesman Hari Sevugan:

“This ad is a lie, and it’s part of the old, tired politics of a party in Washington that has run out of ideas and run out of steam. Even though a host of independent, nonpartisan organizations have said this attack isn’t true, Senator McCain continues to lie about Senator Obama’s plan to give 95% of all families a tax cut of $1,000, and not raise taxes for those making under $250,000 a single dime. The reason so many families are hurting today is because we’ve had eight years of failed Bush policies that Senator McCain wants to continue for another four, and that’s what Barack Obama will change as President."