By Paddy
This is absolutely hands down my ultimate gripe about campaigns the past twenty years. It may have something to do with my age (I was 7 in "The Summer of Love"), but what it boils down to is-
The Vietnam war is over. Stop fighting it. There are no more DF Hippies, they've all grown up. Soldiers are no longer being spit on (if they ever were), and Dick Nixon was proven to be a crook.
But what caught our attention -- and what will likely be the biggest point of discussion -- is McCain bringing up the '60s. It’s not the first time McCain has invoked the culture wars of that decade. In the primaries, he ran an ad that hit Hillary Clinton on the proposed funding for a Woodstock Museum and highlighted his time as a POW with his debate line, “I was tied up at the time.”
Does the ad play right into Obama's wheelhouse -- to put the '60s behind us? Or does it challenge Obama on that turf? Candidates play to their own strengths and try to make their opponents strengths look like weaknesses. McCain can't change who he is. But this ad will likely only underscore the generational differences between these two.
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