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New Obama ad targets McCain as a celebrity

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

USAToday gives the script for a new Obama ad attacking McCain as a celebrity:

"For decades, he's been Washington's biggest celebrity. John McCain. And as Washington embraced him, John McCain hugged right back. The lobbyists ? running his low road campaign. The money ? billions in tax breaks for oil and drug companies, but almost nothing for families like yours. Lurching to the right, then the left, the old Washington dance, whatever it takes. John McCain. A Washington celebrity playing the same old Washington games."

One notes that it was Obama who Sikahema'd his now out-of-favor positions on off-shore drilling and on the troop surge. That's not lurching, that's wobbling.

Curiously, in the intellectual property area, one does really see a difference, as in the upcoming Colorado "discussion" wherein two law school professors (neither a registered patent attorney) will represent Obama and two practicing lawyers will represent McCain. The elite academics with no hands-on experience vs. the real worlders? Maybe that's a tangible distinction going beyond each candidate calling the other a celebrity.

See also

Rai's wrong on reform , which includes

Interestingly, to support this legal requirement, Rai cited in a footnote only law review articles, including Mark A. Lemley, Rational Ignorance at the Patent Office, 95 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1495, 1499-1500 (2001)]

Someone who cites only law reviews to support legal propositions is way out of touch with the real world. Do the characteristics of Obama's supporters mirror Obama?

Full post as published by IPBiz on August 12, 2008 (boomark / email).