[BretLudwig]

McCain as Paris Hilton, Obama as Daniel Day-Lewis

"John McCain spent the week campaigning in poor black neighborhoods. Is
this part of some complex master Rovian plan to switch the demographic
balance of the election? Nah. Or is it part of a cynical "Message: I Care"
ploy? Nah, too. Or does McCain really care about poor blacks? Nah, three.

McCain's pretty much broke, so he's running a Reality TV-style campaign
where instead of paying for expensive speechwriters and TV ads, he just
figures out some wacky situation that will attract more cameras than
normal and he just wings it in from there. This week's McCain campaign
jaunt was like that Paris Hilton reality show "The Simple Life" where she
and Nicole Richie milked cows.

McCain's been winging it his whole life. That's what he's best at. He may
lose a wing now and then, but he's still here.

In contrast, Obama's preferred mode of campaigning is the way Daniel
Day-Lewis makes movies: as infrequently and monumentally as possible.
Obama's 5000 word speech on Rev. Wright was the political equivalent of
Daniel Day-Lewis's performance in "There Will Be Blood."

In fact, what a lot of people said to each other right after Obama's Rev.
Wright speech was awfully similar to what they said as they were walking
up the theater aisle from "There Will Be Blood," with Brahms' Violin
Concerto blasting away behind them:

"Magnificent!"

"He makes a shiver run down my leg!"

"Like Orson Welles' 'Citizen Kane!' / Lincoln's 'Gettysburg Address!'"

"He's so much better than all other actors / politicians!"

"By the way" [in a small voice, looking around to make sure nobody else in
the crowd is paying attention], what the hell was that about?"

"Uh ... I dunno."

"You don't know either?

"Well, it was about this minister."

"But what about the minister?"

"Yeah, well, Day-Lewis / Obama hates / loves the minister. And he gets rid
of / doesn't get rid of the minister."

"How come?"

"I ... don't know. It had something to do with religion. But, it didn't
seem to come up much in the movie / speech."

"So, why are we raving about it?"

"Look, making sense isn't really the point, now is it? The point is that
Daniel Day-Lewis / Barack Obama is the most amazing person in the whole
world."

"Right, sorry, my mistake, never mind."


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