He loves, and she loves, and they love, so darling . . . forget about the latest generation of clueless twenty-something Americans in thrall to Saint Obama, not to mention the older but foolisher Democrats who want to believe. The rest of us have been there and done that and are getting our kicks from Roberta McCain, John McCain's 96-year-mother "sitting in a homey den as 1950s sit-com music plays in the background" in the Mother of All Mother's Day ads.
"[The ad] opens with the two of them disagreeing over whether he was born on a Friday or a Saturday":
"It was a happy hour, I thought," he says. She says no, it was a Saturday, and at the club her husband frequented, "I'm told that on the table there were 27 bottles of Scotch, all presents to Johnny. Well, you may as well enjoy it." A little more discussion, then a rose and Happy Mother's Day message onscreen, and "I'm John McCain and I approved this message. And my mom does too."
"It speaks to so many different human issues. It really goes beyond political advertising into philosophy," comments Tuck, who agrees with us that this is the best political advert ever. Forget Hillary's transparently phony love of poor white people, not to mention Barack and Michelle's holier-than-thou embrace of the "bitter, gun-and-religion-clinging" fellow citizens they condescend to. Mama McCain is the mother of us all.
Update: Location, location, location. We're #1 in Dr. Sanity's Carnival of the Insanities this week, and the hits are rolling in!
I guess with a 96 year old mother like Mrs. McCain we don't have to worry that John is going to be a senile President.
Posted by: goomp | May 10, 2008 at 06:31 AM