Bugging Barack Obama

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McCain's 'celebrity' taunts are bugging Obama

I've had mixed feelings about McCain's "celebrity" ads but if they're bugging Obama they can't be all bad:

For the second time in two weeks, he aired a TV ad Monday rebutting Republican John McCain's claim that Obama is little more than a celebrity, like the blonde hotel heiress.

The first time, Obama dismissed the assertion as "baloney." On Monday, Obama took a different tack with a commercial that says McCain, not he, is "Washington's biggest celebrity.

Yeah, right.  Which candidate is going to give his acceptance speech in a football stadium?  You can even win a backstage pass to meet the rock star serious presidential candidate.  Don't forget the new Obama salute:

(MM Commenter Ron Rockstar fixed it.  Now it makes sense.)

Obama even has his own groupies.  Most of them are members of the mainstream media.  It started early and Howard Kurtz predicted it would change:

Barack Obama will never get this kind of cuddly coverage again.

One hundred and fifty journalists in New Hampshire for his little drop-by on Sunday, when the guy hasn't even decided whether he's running for president?

Has he cast some kind of magic spell over the normally hard-bitten, cynical,run-over-your-grandmother-for-a-story press corps? Or are they just engaged in the audacity of hope that they might get to cover a young and exciting African-American candidate with a shot at winning?

Let's face it: The minute Obama gets into the race--a prospect that Newsweek now puts at 80 percent--the gloves come off, the investigative reporters start crawling over every piece of paper he ever signed, and he begins the long descent toward ordinary mortal. Because right now, the freshman senator is up in the media stratosphere, far beyond the slings and arrows of news organizations and potential opponents. Almost no one, for example, is asking whether a guy who has been in the Senate for all of two years is a plausible commander-in-chief.

Trust me, that will change.

Just exactly when?  Remind me not to ever trust Howard Kurtz.  Oh, and Obama was the one who ran over his grandmother.  As for the "investigative reporters", he must be referring to the ones who work for the National Enquirer. 

And "Almost no one" is still the only person "asking whether a guy who has been in the Senate for all of two years is a plausible commander-in-chief".  Almost no one must be a racist.

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