Obama has a radio ad attacking John McCain for attacking him. “Bush, McCain, Karl Rove, that’s how those guys work,” says the lady. “Guess that’s why they say: John McCain - McSame as Bush!” says the fellow.
Those MoveOn.org folks are busy, busy, busy. And now they’re doing humor. Their new video — “The Bush-McCain Challenge” — proves yet again that comedy is hard, and political advocacy comedy is even harder.
Gallup’s latest presidential approval numbers show that George W Bush has now moved past his father with a lower approval rating: 28 percent (vs. Dad’s low of 29), the lowest of this administration. He still as time to catch up with Richard Nixon and Harry Truman, the only chief executives with lower ratings (Harry’s hit 22 percent).
It’s a little hard to come off as serious and presidential standing behind a Disneyland sign. But at the start of a speech in California, someone in the crowd urges Dennis Kucinich to “give ‘em hell” and Kucinich proceeds to do his best, attacking the war in Iraq.
He boasts about trying to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. “Impeach Bush,” somebody in the crowd yells out. “I didn’t want to start there, because then we’d end up with Cheney,” Kucinich says. But then he says that when the president starts talking about World War III in relation to Iran, “it means that he would start it” and Kucinich argues that it is time to start talking about impeaching Bush.
Republican vlogger David All urges George Bush to come onto YouTube to charm the youth vote for the GOP. Yeah. Right. That’ll be a cold day in hell. Or a peaceful day in Iraq.
* ALSO: Here’s All with Jerome Armstrong interviewing Ron Paul, asking him why he calls himself a Republican: