"American" John "American" McCain for America
by mcjoan
Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 01:11:20 PM PDT
So, any ideas on how American maverick John "America" McCain would run against Obama in November?
So, why use the word "American" twice in the same sentence? Media consultants, especially when creating presidential campaign ads for the general election, don’t waste so much as a syllable. The sentence would have sounded just fine if it said, "John McCain: The president Americans have been waiting for." But the campaign wanted to add that one extra word.
Michael Crowley noted:
That’s an awfully conspicuous formulation when your opponent has been accused of being unpatriotic and of murky foreign origin. All the more so given that it echoes Obama’s line, "we’re the ones we’ve been waiting for." Am I reading too much into it?
I don’t think so.
I don't think so, either.
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