What Toobin Thinks Is Taboo
March 31, 2008 at 8:52 am
Here’s CNN senior analyst Jeffrey Toobin’s take on the new John McCain ad:
I’d like to talk about another aspect of that ad, which I think is really interesting. The American candidate that Americans have been waiting for, using the word American twice in one sentence with his slogan, it seems to me that was this is the candidate whose middle name is not Hussein.
You know, I thought this emphasis on Americanism was hardly a coincidence, and I think very pointedly aimed at what some voters may have as Obama’s unusual ethnic background.
Now which is more cynical, McCain calling himself an American candidate — or suggesting dark motives for calling himself an American candidate?
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