Barack Obama's Giant Schlong!

We couldn't really call this a "Retro Garlic", being it has turned around with such lightening speed.

We posted on Saturday "Bob Herbert Calls Out Stumblin' Bumblin John McCain!", where the NYT columnist "kicks Stumblin' Bumblin John McCain's ass today, than knocks his teeth out for mumbling about it."

Herbert (accurately) contends how the Stumblin' Bumblin' McCain Campaign has gone the extremely low road, going racist, playing the race card, especially with the now-infamous Celebrity Ad, featuring white tabloid girls Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.

Perhaps, if we had known, we could have waited, for Herbert came back this morning, on the Morning Joke show, to further pummel McCain, pointing out, in the Celebrity Ad, the use of phallic symbols in the ad, namely the Victory Tower in Berlin, and the Washington Monument.

From Raw Story;

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski talked with New York Times columnist Bob Herbert who has written a column criticising the GOP for exploiting race in politics. Herbert sees a racial component to the recent advertisement from John McCain’s campaign that is critical of Barack Obama’s celebrity appeal. Herbert believes that the McCain campaign included footage of the Victory Tower in Berlin as a phallic symbol in the commercial to exploit negative racial themes.

Here's the video of it;



Hey, like the old adage goes, you lay down with Rove, you wake up with fleas.

And, man, this is only the beginning of August, before the VP picks, before the conventions, and before Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain (assuming he comes out of Minneapolis with the nomination, officially) starts falling behind in the polls by double-digits.

And the day Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain eschews humor, and lets loose with his infamous temper.

Bob Herbert Calls Out Stumblin' Bumblin John McCain!

Make no mistake about it.

Bob Herbert kicks Stumblin' Bumblin John McCain's ass today, than knocks his teeth out for mumbling about it.

In his column, "Running While Black", Herbert eschews the games most of the MSM pundits have been playing all, week, looking at this issue as if there were two sides of it, and calls out the McCain Campaign (and RNC as well) for what they are doing - playing the race issue on Obama, no If, Ands, of Buts about it.

Spare me any more drivel about the high-mindedness of John McCain. You knew something was up back in March when, in his first ad of the general campaign, Mr. McCain had himself touted as “the American president Americans have been waiting for.”

There was nothing subtle about that attempt to position Senator Obama as the Other, a candidate who might technically be American but who remained in some sense foreign, not sufficiently patriotic and certainly not one of us — the “us” being the genuine red-white-and-blue Americans who the ad was aimed at.

Go read "Running While Black" ... It's excellent, and so dead on the money (you know, those dollar bills with the presidents that don't look anything like Barack Obama).


Bonus Riffs

BooMan: Who Got Dealt the Race Card?

John Cole: Bob Herbert Absolutely Nails It

Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast - Saturday Big Blue Smurf Blogging: What They Said

Maha: Playing the Race Card

Creature: Bob Herbert steps up to expose McCain's disgraceful campaign

Melissa McEwan: McCain blows the dog whistle - By linking Barack Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, Republicans tap racist fears of black men and white women