[Obama's] Friends

This is from The Nose on Your Face, via Ace. Here's a prediction: the best campaign commercials of this year will originate in the blogosphere. The vast majority of them will be made by partisans, and will only be viewed by partisans. But a few of them, likely from the creative, Obama-backing netroots, will go mainstream when the establishment media sees something that fits their narrative. But as this homemade video (and others) show, that doesn't mean the right is incapable of good ads.

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The RNC has made good use of the months of relative calm on the right side of the presidential race by putting together a website called Meet Barack Obama:


I've said over and over again that I'd love to have the guy in the car for a road trip, or to have him and his wife over for dinner on the second Wednesday of every month, but that doesn't mean I want him running the country. In order to turn back the tide of Obamamania, his critics will have to cut through the myth and shine the spotlight on the man. It's very important for Republicans to make the public aware of his extremist views before his campaign has a chance to reinvent his positions.

We have to accept that there's no way to stymie the media's ongoing love affair for the man, but it's possible to cut through his carefully focus-grouped image at this early stage and let everyday American see him, his judgement, his politics and his record for what they really are. But it'll take more than partisan sniping to attract the attention of a nation weary from years of gridlock and finger-pointing. So I think the RNC did well by putting members of Obama's own caucus in the site's first attack ad: