why not embrace the moses caricature?

i would be humbly surprised & flattered to be compared to moses. moses was one of the great leaders of the old testament. he led his people out of the bondage & slavery of pharaoh.
where is the lose in being painted as moses. obama is not claiming to be him, the mccain campaign is. best of all, the mccain ad puts their candidate in the unattractive position of playing demigod.
a very good case can be made, by analogy, with the bush administration being the modern version of the egyptian king/emperor/god. the bush/cheney administration has, after all, placed themselves not only above the law, (constitution) but seem to have declared that they are the law.
something along the lines of, "i don't think i'm moses, but i do feel like i'm running against pharaoh," might work.

•  yeah, i know, not a diary

  by rasbobbo on Fri Aug 01, 2008 at 04:04:05 PM PDT

  •  Screw em

    it's late.

    by Detroit Mark on Fri Aug 01, 2008 at 04:05:58 PM PDT

•  This is what I saying.

  Ads that show cheering crowds.  Ads that show him as an epic leader.

  I mean, he would never protray himself that way.  But if that's how Grampa John wants us to see him, where's the down side.

  "Where's your god now Grampa John?  Myeah, myeah"
  Ed G. Robinson paraphrased

  by Detroit Mark on Fri Aug 01, 2008 at 04:05:34 PM PDT

  •  obama is not claiming to be moses or the messiah

    but in putting obama up as one, mccain is placing himself squarely in the role of pontius pilate, or pharoah, fine, let him defend that.

    by rasbobbo on Fri Aug 01, 2008 at 04:17:44 PM PDT

•  I don't know

  The part about a burning bush might be misconstrued...

  by BoiseBlue on Fri Aug 01, 2008 at 04:06:11 PM PDT

  •  following moses was a gamble

    verrry risky, sticking with pharaoh was surely the safe choice.

    by rasbobbo on Fri Aug 01, 2008 at 04:14:07 PM PDT

•  Obama shouldn't run that...

  But that would be a fun Youtube viral to launch.  Pharoah with McCain's face...

  by ogre on Fri Aug 01, 2008 at 04:45:02 PM PDT

•  HAHA

  MCCAIN JUST LOST ALL HIS CHRISTIAN VOTES SO THIS MIGHT BE A GOOD WEEK FOR OBAMA AFTER ALL

  by oh boy on Fri Aug 01, 2008 at 05:08:59 PM PDT

•  "How would McCain know what Moses looked like?

  He wasn't around then, was he?"

  --Barack Obama (in my snarky imaginings)

  by god doc on Fri Aug 01, 2008 at 06:01:04 PM PDT

•  It sure feels like we have been in the wilderness

  for forty years these last eight years.

  by suse on Fri Aug 01, 2008 at 06:07:49 PM PDT