By Will Rabbe
The ad wars continue: "Don't hope for a better life -- vote for one" [emphasis added] is the message of John McCain's new TV spot:
As a very well edited piece, it is likely to be effective -- it combines elements of McCain's biography with a rebuttal of Barack Obama's message.
But it also equates the counterculture and the 1967 "Summer of Love" with Obama's campaign themes of "hope" and "change". Is it a problem is that at age 46, Obama was only 6 years old at the time?
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