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Joan, I think you're letting the McCain side off a little too easy in this discussion. I'm afraid that the subliminal miscegenation theme is in fact there in the "Celeb" ad, and I strongly suspect that those behind it (perhaps not McCain himself, but certainly the Rove connected staffers he now has working for him) are all too aware of it.
One thing that struck me here was the remark attributed to McCain staffers that they wanted to show that Obama is "vacuous". Well, there are any number of other celebrities they could have used to try to make that point, and many of them aren't even young, blond women. The problem is that the message simply is not true. Oh, they want desperately to believe that it is, so much so that they've actually convinced themselves of it. But the more people are exposed to Obama the more they will be able to sense the quality of his mind...at least anybody who doesn't have their own mind closed to begin with.
