I suppose the implication is "as opposed to Barack Hussein Obama, foreign Muslim terrorist plant."

Or more likely, to Bush. After all, why would we be waiting for a president if we've already had one for eight years?

So what's the over/under for number of weeks prior to the election we see DHS go to CODE MOTHERF-N ORANGE, BITCHES!!!!!!! in an attempt to keep the lemmings worried about the safety of America?

That said, I think that referring to McCain as "The American President" is a nice piece of subliminal messaging. Couple that with his tour of the middle east where he walks around acting like he runs the country and I can see him convincing the Alzheimer's crowd (you know, his peers) that he is already president.

Hopefully it will be effective enough to make his more doddering supporters stay home.

Considering that Obama's slogan is "We are the change we have been waiting for". Contrast that with McCain's "The American President America has been waiting for" and you can see the different focus.

I like that Obama admits that he won't solve all our problems, we will do that when we get involved.

Does Bill Clinton do the voice over?

I think he should just change his name to "John Americain"

"America has been looking for boobs. Here's a big one."

won't work. Too long for a poster. I'm sure it got focused group the hell out of (probably by Republican primary voters who only have to hear "america" in a sentence before they break out in oh hosannas). But yeah, it's....well, I'm sure there's a lot of folks who are gonna go, "Yeah, we have been waiting for an American president."

I think a better slogan should be this: "John McCain--God, I have waited so long to be president. Elect me. Please."

"John McCain: The American president Islamists have been waiting for."

So John McCain says he's the president "Americans have been waiting for" but he also insists that Bush has done a really good job over the past eight years. Isn't this a contradiction? That's a question Democrats might be asking if there were any Democrats actually running for president.

The president we are waiting to elect is an American.

Learn something new everyday.

John McCain: Twice as America-er as the other guy.

Gogo and Didi in the background?

Hey, I just realized the inspiration for McCain's new slogan:

Stephen Colbert's book: I Am America (And So Can You!)

He's been on both sides of the torture issue. 30 years ago: against torture, since it was being used on him. Today: for torture, since we need to torture our own political prisoners, and besides, torture is FUN if you get to do the torturing.

Next for John McCain: Why the rack is a good device in today's morally confused environment.

Barry's full Christian name is Sheik bin al BaraBlackHusseinMadrassaOsamaBama, thank you very much.

Do your homework. Get it right.

I think you must have misspoke.

The American president Americans have been waiting for?

So that would make Bush un-American?

Well, I can't argue with that. Guess I'll have to vote for him after all.

Are you snark-challenged or just being snarky?

LOL!

We all know she's much. much more American than Michelle Obama. I can see it now...with Theme from Valley of the Dolls playing in the background.

Thanks to all the posters for making me laugh but mostly to old Jonnie boy for that super lame commercial.

Anyone notice the "Ready From Day One" text toward the end?

Maybe he and Hillary ARE running together after all.

That's what stuck out in the add to me. Though most posters saw references to an Obama opposition, I think Clinton supporters could find cheer in that this ad seem to be designed as much to counter Hillary's claims of experience and enduring hostile treatment by the enemy. It would seem that McCain is suggesting that giving one's rank and serial number to an interrogator is slightly more experience-building than suffering a poem from an eight year old girl. Perhaps McCain isn't assuming that Clinton's nomination is finished.

Well true. In a way.

He has to fight both Clinton and Obama because we haven't sured up the nomination yet. If we were smart we'd be taking full advantage of that fact.

He's got extremely limited funds and neither Hillary nor Obama seem 'funding deprived' in comparison. He had to make an ad that would last, cuz lord knows he won't be able to afford the production costs of making new ones.

This ad is double bang for his buck. Multipurposing. WOW.

Scary voice-over; wierd ad. The Vietnam footage was a really strange choice- if they had footage of him refusing to answer questions beyond name/rank/serial number, that would seem to be sufficiently macho, but this co-operative recitation is just creepy. I'm not trying to down play his ordeal, but is that just there to remind us that he was held? As if we won't hear that over and over and over again?

The "Reayd from Day One" graphic looks like a newspaper headline to me. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it's from someone's coverage of Hillary's statement.

It's simply a font that looks like newspaper print overlaid on top of the video footage.

Proabably a courier font. It would be hard to tell precisely but on the production end there would be no reason to composite the actual newspaper story (if there way one) for such a simple effect. Besides it has his name first McCain: Ready From Day One.

Nice point about the POW stuff. It was kind of weird...couldn't put finger on why. But you nailed it.

RE the over/under: I would say some time around Aug. 25...

I'm amazed they didn't go for the full monty and simply called him "Captain America", seeing that he actually achieved the rank, and that the "real" Captain America was member of a group called the "Invaders" as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invaders_%28comics%29

But doubling up on "America" might also serve to establish that he IS an American even if he wasn't born there.