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Vaalien ”vihjailevasta rasismista” saa hyvää kuvaa Foxnewsin etusivulta, jonka pääuutinen keskittyy tällä hetkellä vain ”äänestysongelmiin”. Ainoa kuva ehdokkaista on Obaman naama hiukan alempana mielenkiintoisessa seurassa:

Melkoista johdattelua hiukan McCainin ”Celeb” -mainoksen hengessä, johon Paris Hilton teki loistavan vastamainoksen. Monet McCainin kampanjan likaisemmista piirteistä eivät ole suoraan pinnassa. Josh Marshall kirjoitti aiheesta hyvin:

In this case, if the point is to say that Obama’s a celebrity, how exactly do you get from there to Britney Spears? Paris Hilton? Mull on that for a second. Are those the most logical analogues to Obama? Play it any way you want but somehow at the end of the day we end up with a campaign message based on promoting Obama as a song and dance man and paired with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. How’d we get here? It’s the GOP race and sex equivalent of all roads lead to Rome.

To understand the dynamics of this campaign you have to understand the role of Karl Rove and his proteges who’ve taken over McCain’s campaign. Rove himself previewed the key messages of the campaign early in the year in two vignettes about Obama — first, Obama as the ”trash-talking” basketball player who’s both cocky and ”lazy”, and second, Obama as the cocky black guy at the country club with a hot chick on his arm who’s looking down at you.