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John McCain: 'Those Grapes Are Probably Sour Anyway'
There are so many ironies in Shecky McGaffe's campaign it's difficult to pick just one. So, I settled on the following.
Shecky McGaffe continued playing the jilted lover today. The laughably churlish new McGaffe ad, called 'Celebrity', derisively compares Sen. Obama to Brittany Spears & Paris Hilton. It's meant to play on a few different levels: the 'all hat no cattle' criticism of Barack; the 'where are all the white women' inference of black man counter-posed against young white women; and . . . ah, who cares if there's another.
Because when I look at it, all I see is a jealous, jilted lover. The point when a person realizes that they are neither going to get what they want nor reclaim what they had.
The Clinton campaign was rightfully angry in the primary when commentators compared her to Glenn Close in 'Fatal Attraction'. However, there were really one campaign off.
Because when I think of the psychotic Close character telling Michael Douglas:
I'm not going to be ignored! . . .it makes me think of John McCain--err . . . Shecky McGaffe.
Shecky spent the past few weeks whining to anyone within earshot that the media paid too much attention to Sen. Obama. Now he's deriding Sen. Obama for being--what . . . too popular?
Not that Shecky's jealous or anything. Those grapes are probably sour anyway.
Shecky's like the guy in a relationship that tells his girlfriend that he wants to 'take a break' and 'see other people'. And then the girlfriend turns around and immediately starts seeing a younger, better looking and more successful man [or woman, if there's any justice].
That's pretty much where Shecky's at; he has all the indicators of the classic jilted-lovers syndrome. Poor Shecky has been the media's darling and a celebrity as a politician for the past decade or so. And a younger, better looking, more successful guy has taken his girl [the presidency]. And there is nothing that Shecky can do about it. And he knows it.
So, we can watch him thrash about in all directions until he gets to the point where he knows that he's not going to win her back. Then he'll start doing the 'honor, lost cause' shtick that he always turns to when he knows whatever he wants is in the toilet.
But for now, I would suggest that Sen. Obama get a restraining order and, definitely, hide the family's rabbits.
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