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I admit to not understanding a word of the McCain ad below. However - it goes to my theory that McCain has to knee cap Obama and do it now if he expects to win. I said a few posts ago that Atwater and Rove destroyed Dukakis and Kerry in August of 88 and 04 - and that McCain had wounded Obama but he was still very much in the race. My theory was off in one particular. The Dem convention had already happened when Willie Horton and Swiftboats appeared. This year the DNC held the convention late. McCain has a week before the first debate to throw Obama off badly- which is to say: To get the truth out about Obama to the American people. With a series of ads he appears to be going after it. Call it "negative" if you like. But the equation leaves little room for McCain. Obama has the media on his team. Therefore, the playing field is not even. In addition to the media being a wing of the Obama campaign, BHO has an army of bloggers who gleefully do his "negative" campaigning for him. The media in turn picks up on whatever bile they spew. Compare the media's 10 month silence on Edward's affair (which would have helped Clinton) to their vicious attack on Palin's daughter - a story they sat on for about 43 seconds.

Cannonfire - yet again - has a great post here on just how dangerous and delusional Obama Pods are. McCain must not underestimate this Obama created mob.

Whatever Chavez is saying is sounds awful. And the bleeping of foul language ads to the overall air that the man is a lunatic. McCain is running the ad in Florida. If anyone can give a synopsis of the point of this ad I would appreciate it. Like it or not - all Hillary had to do was run a similar ad in January (in tone, at least) replacing Chavez with Wright - and she would now be the nominee with a 12 point lead.