Jib Jab has a new video about the McCain/Obama campaign.  It pokes fun at both of them (and Clinton) equally.

http://sendables.jibjab.com/

ha ha - that's the third time someone's mentioned the new Jib Jab in this thread - which kind of speaks to how underwhelming this one is.

They're like Broken Lizard of web-comedy - their first thing is brilliant, and everything after it... not so much.

No, no, Puddle Cruiser was Pure Crap - but it didn't really play the theatres, so I still consider Super Troopers their first real movie.

Beerfest was pretty ok - here's hopin' the Slamin' Salmon works out.  I hear a ST sequel might be on it's way - that might be what they really need...

And as for that rightwingnutjob's blathering assessment, how does one know when to apply the royal "we"?  Maybe it's "We are the ones I've been waiting for"? 

Fear is a stinky cologne, Republicans.

Put the Krauthammer down and back away, slowly.  Avoid eye contact.

(full disclosure: Molly Ivins is the only pundit I've ever found worth a damn, although I do like to look at that redheaded "liberal" one who can't stop talking about Bill Clinton's cawk.)

ha ha - that's the third time someone's mentioned the new Jib Jab in this thread - which kind of speaks to how underwhelming this one is.

For me, this was was far superior to their first one.  I've watched it at least a dozen times now and can't get the friggin' tune out of my head.

The cigar scene and Obama riding a unicorn over a rainbow crack me up the most but I love the whole thing.

"Obama may think he's King Canute"

What? King Hard Knut? He's Danish? A F---in dane? Okay, now I've lost all respect for him.

Seriously, this Krauthammer guy seems more concerned with showing his readers that he knows historical trivia than actually giving an analysis. The "Royal We" bit is preposterous. And what American politician doesn't want to stand in front of Brandenburger Tor and shout "Ich bin ein Berliner"?
And yes, the Obama supporters are unusually young and enthusiastic, hopeful and starry-eyed. So all sorts of "Super-Obama" posters and things are made up and quite possibly Obama himself doesn't quite know when to put his foot down and tell people in his campaign or loosely associated with his campaign to reign it in.

I think a lot of it has to do with just the general enthusiasm of the campaign rather  than some megalomaniacal drive on Obama's part.

It could be worse. We have seen in the past how some campaigns have had elements (some on the inside, some only peripherally associated with the candidate) driven by another form of enthusiasm, an enthusiastic loathing for a candidate that makes them push negative imagery of the opposing candidate, lies and smears and puppydog-tails.

There is an element of a "Cult of Personality" about Obama, something that can quickly turn on him since the image a lot of fresh-faced supporters have of him is something that no human politician could ever live up to. Even if he turns out to be the greatest Democratic president since the start of US history, he will still not live up to a lot of people's expectations. And there's no opposition like disappointed supporters.

To keep this thread gowing I offer the following from Ms. Maueen Dowd and Mr. Thomas Friedman.

Always entertaining reading from those cats.  I particularly like Friedman.