March 10, 2008

Well, In Case You Didn't See It.

Here's the latest Hillary-pimping from the crew at Saturday Night Live:

Via Hot Air, where AllahPundit remarks:

In practice it’s five and a half minutes of him [Obama] sounding like a buffoon while she [Clinton] keeps a steady hand on the wheel. The ‘Busters say it amounts to another de facto SNL ad for Hillary; I’m inclined to agree. Memo to the Messiah: Have your staff call Lorne ASAP and set up a cameo to stop the bleeding.

Instapundit also links the Inexperience-squared vid as part of a mini-roundup on the issue of experience/chops/balls, and quotes the divine Jennifer Rubin (whom I like even though she has much better clothes than I do), writing in Commentary:

So we may have reached the perfect gender dilemma: is Obama 'man enough' to be President? That, really, is the question Clinton is raising in her own way.

Yup. And yet more Jennifer, at the same link:

Now it is ObamaÂ’s turn to prove he can stand up to Clinton and McCain, to say nothing of real bad guys like Fidel Castro and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In this regard, his excessive deference to personal engagement (Deborah Tannen has something to say about that) as a tool of foreign policy and his cool, aloof demeanor work against him. Can he take a punch or throw one? Does he really understand that as President heÂ’ll face enemies utterly immune to reason, enemies beyond the conciliatory powers of even the best community organizer? Maureen Dowd and the rest of ObamaÂ’s media fans are waiting with bated breath for the answer.

Althouse also thinks they're laying it on a bit thick:

the ad really does push us to think that Hillary Clinton has a lot of experience and Barack Obama is a neophyte. The fact that we know it's an exaggeration doesn't prevent it from stimulating our anxieties about the underlying truths. And if we're disposed to look at a comedy sketch and find it funny, then our minds slip into the place where we perceive the thing that is being exaggerated. Our defenses are down.

Aw, but don't you see? If it's really a joke, you can say anything you want. All's fair. Life is a bowl of passive-aggressive cherries.

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