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I Vote Deliberately Oblivious
Eschaton — And McCain's people know it's two- or three-fer. The press will only notice if Obama officially notices, and when Obama does the overwhelming bellowing noise from deep in the heart of Wingnuttia, residing somewhere inside Pat Buchanan, will be that Obama is a bad person for noticing the obvious. ...

MORNING READ
News — ... wonder when McCain will resort to the "Call me!" type of ad used by Republicans in 2006 to link former Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) to white women. Just as the internal memos of Clinton's campaign show that it didn't just stumble onto negative associations about Obama, McCain's memos likely spell out his strategy of trying to link Obama to "hot chicks," writes TPM's Josh Marshall . But the "hot chicks" line is said by an Obama supporter and is used by McCain to merely mock Democrats' enthusiasm for their candidate, writes RedState's ...

McCain's Memos
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Josh Marshall knows no campaign message is accidental: During the campaign there was a lot of clucking about whether the campaign's message just accidentally stumbled on to charged words and associations. And now we can see what was obvious at the time -- that the people in charge of the message weren't sloppy and unlucky but rather what you would expect, professionals following a detailed plan. Now how about Sen. McCain? You see his ads lining Obama up with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, a new ad with the tagline "hot chicks dig Obama" ...

McCain disses Taco Bell in new anti-Obama ad
Crooks and Liars — ... though. I think we have to be careful because we run the risk of losing the argument if it’s not clearer to the American people when McCain’s camp actually does use it. (And you know it is part of their playbook.) It will only give ...

Missing the Point of McCain's Ads
The Anonymous Liberal — I've gotta disagree with Markos and Josh Marshall on this one. McCain's new "hot chicks dig Obama" ad is not intended to be a racist dog-whistle. If it was, they would have put more effort into it and they'd be playing it in heavy circulation in the South. Instead, the ad is a hastily thrown together, low-budget web ad that only political junkies like Markos and Josh are likely to bother watching. In other words, this particular dog-whistle isn't directed at racists; it's directed at liberals. The McCain camp knows that all they have to do is put a few ...