'Dr. No' is almost as old as Barack Obama
By Steve Benen Thursday Jun 26, 2008 7:30amJohn McCain clearly wants to make unflattering Barack Obama comparisons, but he seems to be having a little trouble with cultural references.
A couple of weeks ago, McCain said Obama reminds him of William Jennings Bryan. Given that Bryan last ran for president literally 100 years ago, this was something of a dud. Shortly thereafter, McCain went with a Jimmy Carter reference, which is likely to fall flat with about half the voters.
Now, the McCain campaign is going with an ad, riffing off the first James Bond film, “Dr. No,” which was released just one year after Barack Obama was born.
First, of course, is the generational problem. James Bond movies remain popular, but if the campaign is sensitive about McCain’s status as a septuagenarian, picking a 46-year-old movie as a cultural reference might not be the best idea. (As Oliver Willis recently noted, “McCain went from a 19th century comparison to a 20th century comparison. At some point in his campaign I suppose he might join Sen. Obama and the rest of us in the 21st century.”)
Second, and more importantly, is the substance. Obama has said no to various McCain campaign ideas, but only because they’re bad ideas.
Besides, if anyone's been saying no to an effective energy policy, it's McCain, not Obama.
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Never mind the fact that Dr. No in the movies was a racist depiction of a stereotypical Asian villain played by a caucasian actor. So they are in effect using a racist stereotype against the first African American nominee of a major party. Its hard to believe a political campaign can be so clueless.
Dr No was apparently Chinese in the movie.
Half German Half Chinese in the book.
He was Ian Fleming's Fu Manchu to James Bond's Neyland Smith.
In the book he was a former Tong accountant who absconded with the cash to threaten the world.
McCain needs to fire his campaign staff and start all the hell over. Not being a James Bond fan, I have no idea who Dr. No is and I'm betting I'm not all alone. Ed Rollins was on Morning Joe today and he blistered McCain's campaign.
This campaign is being handled so badly. First of all they have a bad nominee to work with so they need some real professionals to sell this somewhat outdated product. It's somewhere between pathetic and funny as hell.
That video is hilarious. It makes Obama look good. Like how can they say Nuclear is clean and safe? Even proponents of nuclear understand their are risks to nuclear.
The video makes Obama look kind of cool, I think.
The book had Dr. No with two hooked hands, his own being destroyed by Tong torturers, and a dramatic death in his own uranium rod cooling pools.
In the book, his cover was dealing in bat guano. So James Bond killed him by commandeering a earth-mover and drowning him in a load of bat guano, literally drowning him in bat litter.
The whole book seemed rather tongue in cheek.
But it unfortunately influenced the entire movie series so a morbidly depressed and burned out English agent dealing with often more realistic threats, was suddenly fighting super bad guys, with his gimmicky Aston Martin (a 1933 Bentley in the book with no gadgets), and and explosive end.
This is supposed to be a negative ad? So Obama says "No" to McCain's poorly thought out policy proposals and gets a great graphic treatment and soundtrack behind him while he does it. Yeah, that's going to hurt. I guess McCain is "Dr. Yes", trying to please everybody on every subject no matter the contradictions.
Is that a green screen behind Obama? (Paging Mr. Colbert)
Wow...that was one of the weakest, lamest political ads I've ever seen.
All it did was show images of Barack Obama saying reasonable things, set against background imagery and music that people associate with a friggin' action hero! James Bond is cool and suave, tough, and gets all the ladies. That's who they want people to associate Obama with?
Man, I hope the McCain camp keeps this ad person around for a long time.
Hey, give McSame a break here ... He and Williams Jenning Bryan were drunk the last time they met back in 1918, so his memory is foggy.
OT, but in the interest of Americans and Education.
Here is a great piece from a German Newspaper Die Zeit
The article is Titled: "Are Americans becoming dumb and dumber? Or is it just the Christians, and not the Jews and Hindus?"
Pretty interesting read if you have a few moments.
Jesus, did McCain really say that Obama *reminds* him of William Jennings Bryan? McCain must be even older than he admits.
Catster @ 11:
Yeah, they were drinking buddies (see #9)
Ole' Grandpappy McInsane show his age once again!! Besides, the allusion to Dr. NO is a good thing as it telegraphs the message that Obama says "NO" to Bush's failed policies. I think this new Dr. No campaign will bring the fold into Obama's camp faster than any ad Obama can run. The people have had enough of Washington insider politics and need to either demand that these morons represent us or discontinue paying their salaries as OUR public servants.
I think Dr. No sends a very clear message of change which Obama epitomizes. Hopefully, when the FISA bill rears it's ugly head again, he will show us how he, Barack Obama, represents the people by voting "NO". Let's go, Dr. NO! Show the american people how you patently reject the corrupt Washingtonian mindset.
ysbaddaden @ 5:
Thunderball (the book) always amused me greatly, super villain scientist creating a V1 type rocket to drop a nuke on London, desperately tries to steal or acquire a guidance system...
It would have been cheaper for the super villain to buy some diesel for his Lorry and drive the one hundred miles to London...
Fun period books with echoes of Fleming's WW2 espionage experiences and borrowed bits, but silly plots.
Clearly, McCrazy's camp is out of fresh ideas for packaging and marketing this old fool. Now they've really shot themselves in the foot. Of course, Obama is "Dr. NO" - since he rejects Bush's failed policies across the board. Now if he can get on board and protect our civil rights by voting NO to FISA, he'll have it made in the shade; otherwise, he will lose the Independents and Libertarians in November. It's already happening simply due to his comments made public about FISA. Obama had better wake up and recognize that it's precisely the I's and swing voters he needs to carry him into the White House.
This McC*nt spoof video now means the gloves can come off and we can have some real MSM TV fun.
McNasty is a subtle running joke on the more thinking MSM shows, open season on McSenile adverts.
Obama rose to popularity, due in large part to his "Netroots Support". Now this same Netroots group is very unhappy about his stance of FISA. If he truly desires to represent what is now the majority of americans and continue the Obama Wave, he needs to stop pandering to the fear mongers in Washington who are putting him into a national security corner and begin speaking again from his heart. He KNOWS in his gut that he should not support immunity so why doesn't he again consult his gut and put his money where his heart is by saying "NO" to anything that exonerates this president and his cabal of criminals (the telecons)??
i believe that even mccain said offshore drilling would not lower gas prices and is not a short term solution but it is necessary to get our dependence off foreign fuel (and interestingly enough, if areas off our coast were open to drilling, most of it would be contracted to foreign oil companies like shell). but i love when the ad says barack is against innovation and the electric car......says no to innovation!!!?? ahhhhahahahahahaha....ok mccain. i think that even his brain might have wrinkles
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 16:
Time for the Dems to begin cranking out interviews with families and people involved with McCrazy's problems aboard the USS Forestal!!
sean @ 18:
Trouble with McSenile is not brains wrinkles more the lack of wrinkles, he dares not go near squirrels for fear of nut knocking and reject time for hollow head.
sean @ 18:
This is a critical component to the offshore drilling scenario: The Bush Cabal now owns at least one-third interest in our own untapped oil reserves. Who stands to benefit obscenely from oil drilling in this country? You guessed it - the same family of criminals who have destroyed this country.
It's time for the people to hold this family totally accountable for their crimes against the citizens.
I understand McCain was pleased with the Supreme Court ruling yesterday regarding the right to bear arms. He said that he had long held the opinion that every American had the right to own a musket.
Obama says No to offshore drilling. Is that supposed to be a hit on Obama?
I wonder if they're playing this ad in Florida.
Hey let's run the Great Ziegfeld or My Man Godfrey, two cinematic classics released the year McShame was born in Panama.
Coming to a drive-in near you: John McCane in Thunderbald.
Next he'll be referring to Barack as 'that negro candidate'.
So out of touch!
Jinchi @ 23:
I'm in Florida and I haven't seen it on tv. This may be a website only ad.
To me it appears that McCain's campaign is working for Senator Obama instead of against him.
Actually, I'm a bit older the Obama. But thanks for the thought.
McSame's campaign is so lame I thinks they are doing it on porpoise.
The Architects are losing it...
osiris @ 19:
I have just the thing, take cover ! McNasty is flying (and crashing five times)
or this
At least Mike Gravel had the sense to appear with Obamagirl showing he was somewhat up to date with what's going on. Furthermore, he was willing to poke a bit of fun at himself. Yes, his campaign was long since dead in the water but still my point is still valid, I'd like to think.
They were shooting for Connery level of cool, but this attempt barely reaches Lazenby. This would be easily reworked with "They Might Be Giants" song "No" into a pro-Barry ad.
25 fastfeat Says: Coming to a drive-in near you: John McCane in Thunderbald.
Live and Let Nap.
The republiscums are, of course, playing with the persceptions of their target audience, an audience that tends to make judgements on perceptions rather than the truth. My favorite example of this occured when my mother, a life long, die hard republiscum supporter picke up a book I had been reading and inquired sarcastically as to who "Miz Dooze" was and what the ABC's were. The book, "The ABC's of MS DOS" certainly wasn't of a sexual nature, but my mother's impression of me as a single male college student made her believe there was somethine untoward about that book because of its title.
The republiscums must certainly think that truth is dangerous when you hear all the lies they tell us instead.
McCain doesn't go to the theater often enough. Originally he wanted to reference, "Our American Cousin."
The only thing that the Repubs have is sleeze. Now for FISA, I don't agree with the immunity part of this bill, however, it dosen't strip out the criminal aspect of what they did. These are just civil suits in court right now. I wish people, would remember, Obama said "there iwll be times you don't agree with me and that's OK. He could have handled this thing better. But it is the New media that is hyping this and the the blogs. He can't be everything to everbody or else he will be nobody. I love this man and have all the confidence he will do the right thing when he is in office.
Obama 08
From Russia With My Friends
Thunderbland
Kidney Stones are Forever
Brownnoser
You Only Pee Twice
On booshco's Secret Service
The Man With the Golden Urine
The Spy Who C**t Me
For Your Prostate Only
Octo(Can We Say That?)
A View To A Playboy Channel
The Living Nightlights
License To Ill
VisineEye
Tommorrow Will Die
The World Is Enough
Die Another Hair Follicle
Casino Luby's
ysbaddaden @ 32:
Man With the Golden
GunTeethYs, you must be feeling better today because that list is outstanding.
Wasn't there a bond movie named Goldfinger? Okay, switch that to Oldfinger
I think Obama needs to do an ad with a white cat in his lap ...
But seriously - Dr. No was a proponent of nuclear power, and McCain wants to build 45 new reactors by 2030.
McCain is probably wishing he was on a tropical island with a hot blonde like Ursula Andress.
McCain Green Screen Challenge - Blue Suede Shoe Edition
McCain Green Screen Challenge - McCain Debates Himself on Supporting Bush
McCain Green Screen Challenge - Jedi Edition
McCain Green Screen Challenge - Emperor McCain
McCain Green Screen Challenge - Space Odyssey Bush
McCain Green Screen Challenge - Dinosaurs
McCain Green Screen Challenge - Night of the Living Candidate
McCain Green Screen Challenge - 'Super McCain Bros'
McCain Green Screen Challenge - Asteroids
And as one of the video mixer people said "thanks to the McCain campaign team for making this all possible" LMAO
ysbaddaden @ 36:
nice one :)
ysbaddaden @ 36:
You're going to disparage perhaps the greatest rap album ever put together by white guys. C'mon we don't have much, but at least don't knock the Beastie Boys.
How about: License To Torture?
40 Ernst Shadowgm Blofeld
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzE08aInn4
42 ThunderMonkey Says: ysbaddaden @ 36:
License To Ill
You’re going to disparage perhaps the greatest rap album ever put together by white guys. C’mon we don’t have much, but at least don’t knock the Beastie Boys.
How about: License To Torture?
42 ThunderMonkey Says: ysbaddaden @ 36:
License To Ill
You’re going to disparage perhaps the greatest rap album ever put together by white guys. C’mon we don’t have much, but at least don’t knock the Beastie Boys.
How about: License To Torture?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NdAUnnU9Ac
Ysbaddaden@36
"Kidney Stones are Forever, You Only Pee Twice" That is very funny!
38 pissed off patricia Says:
I'll only feel better until my next electric bill.
I like Bond movies
Except any with Roger Moore or Pierce Brosnan.
And when is Woody Allen going to play another Bond villain?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEnoKqiGJFI
And just to make the list complete:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBHUBc2lF5E&feature=related
Did Obama really say "no" to the electric car?
45 Left&Left Says: Ysbaddaden@36
“Kidney Stones are Forever, You Only Pee Twice” That is very funny!
I please to aim
But I keep missing the toilet.
ysbaddaden @ 44:
That's what I'm talking about... though "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn" and "Paul Revere" are my favorite tracks on that album.
Pie is good.
@40)
Well, I'll not hold that against him -- so do I.
As long as it's not the real Ursula Andress -- I believe she's 71 by now.
Dr. No - Proctologist
From Iran With Love
Oldfinger
Shriveledball
You Only Live Twice (So why am I still here?)
The Man with the Golden Wife
The Spy Who Lied for War
The World is Not Enough (We Want It All)
And who can forget the Bond Babes with the funny names?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXMF11zr1rk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj1SyWntdo4
Hemoroids Are Forever
ColonRaker
Never Say FlipFlop Again
Evil Never Dies
Maybe I'll Live Another Day
Ian Fleming commissioned an illustrator to capture his image of James Bond when the comic strip started in 1958 in England.
[The URL was causing wrap problems, and I lost it. Sorry-Sitemonitor]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Fleming007impression.jpg
But the comic strip Bond ended up looking like this:
http://members.aol.com/karlenlaw/private/d.jpg
So some now think Sean Connery got the part because of his resemblence to the latter version.
Obama isn't Dr. No.
He's Dr. Not Voting.
McCain is Dr. Old
Johnny2Bad @ 54:
McGrampa hasn’t voted in the Senate since April 8.
In April, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) became the most absent member of the Senate. According to the Washington Post’s votes database, McCain has “missed 367 votes (61.4%) during the current Congress.” In fact, CQ reports today that McCain hasn’t voted in the Senate since April 8. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) last voted on June 4.
@47
Of course not. He said no to McCain's stupid suggestion that the way to get to the electric car was to offer a cash prize to the first person who could present a fully functional advanced battery, like it was the giant pumpkin that wins the blue ribbon at the county fair.
Obama supports the much more reasonable and productive way to go of offering tax credits and incentives to help develop the component technologies one step at a time, so that a cascade of innovation spins out many alternate-energy advances.
I thought Dr. NO was Ron Paul. After all he's the real doctor, right?
NO to the Federal Reserve.
NO to the Income Tax
NO to Big Government
should I continue?
Nice ad McBush! High-five!....oopps, my bad.
P.S. Just a couple of alt movie titles, my friends.
OctoC*nt
The Spy Who Changes My Depends
The Man With The Early-Bird Special
How about:
Lawnraker (as in "Hey you kids, get off my....")
Sadly, I think a simple spoonerism would be more accurate: RuinMaker.
One of my links was bringing up the same image as another.
Here's another try for the one that Connery looks like
http://members.aol.com/karlenlaw/private/d.jpg
I grew up on Sean Connery but here's my preference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd0PSTb-ujQ&feature=related
This is a sample of his voice from a more typical earlier movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOxpt0oGCDg
There's more to the name than meets the eye. Read more....http://www.tagg-lines.com
First Rove saying Obama is the guy at the country club with a cigarette and hot looking date, and now McCain says he's a genius super-villain? At this rate, the next attack on Obama will be that he's a karate black-belt sportscar racing champion who can kick ass on an electric guitar. Hey Republicans: The spin is supposed to be NEGATIVE! If you need any material, just go back through Hilary's last year's worth of stuff.
First Rove saying Obama is the guy at the country club with a cigarette and hot looking date,
and now McCain says he’s a genius super-villain? At this rate, the next attack on Obama will be that
he’s a karate black-belt sportscar racing champion who can kick ass on an electric guitar.
Hey Republicans: The spin is supposed to be NEGATIVE! If you need any material,
just go back through Hilary’s last year’s worth of stuff.
Comment #59 is Brilliant!
49 ThunderMonkey Says: ysbaddaden @ 44:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NdAUnnU9Ac
That’s what I’m talking about… though “No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn” and “Paul Revere” are my favorite tracks on that album.
This?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtsOPFFocCc
It ought to be a sure win for the Democratic Party this year, but McCain's campaign ineptitude is creeping me out as badly as Dubya's did in 2003. Bush claimed the victory in that election, if I remember correctly.
Also: the Clinton camp (and their supporters) need to lay off of Obama and *support him, practically and unconditionally. That's what the word 'Unity' *means, unless you're Joe Lieberman, of course..
Thunderfarts?
You know, at the rate McSame's going, Sen. Obama won't have to do a damn thing in this election season...just sit back and let McSame derail his own campaign.
Wow, spiffy ad (not).
59 GlobalH Says: How about:
Lawnraker (as in “Hey you kids, get off my….”)
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Actually, that reminds me more of:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2c/MrAnderson.jpg/250px...
well if they're relating dr. no to obama because of his birthday i suppose it's ok for us to point out that john mccain and the first movie release of "show boat" share birthday years in 1936,. similarly, the hoover dam was born in the same year also. mccain can boost for hydro!
Wow...Dr. No....that's current.
If Obama is Dr. No...
John McCain is General Anatol Gogol (the crotchety old Russian guy that appeared in a bunch of movies, but with no major screen time)
Hillary Clinton is Elektra King (though about 1/20th of the hotness)
Dick Cheney is Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Joe Liebermann is Irma Bunt
George W. Bush is Max Zorin (about the most worthless Bond villian, but without the coolness of being Christopher Walken, but he does have his own African American sidekick)
Since John Edwards wanted to be a spy... we'll make him James Bond (per George Lazenby, not nearly as cool as Daniel Craig or Sean Connery, but way better than the rest).
I'll start and let the rest of you have some fun too...
73 ThunderMonkey
This is the true Gogol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYGKAD82kVM
It's just a really bad ad. McCain really needs a new marketing dept.
What will he do next, call his wife "Pussy Galore?"
why do these video links to youtube keep coming up "video no longer available"....
Wow. That really makes Obama look good.
I think the subliminal message is that the ad is old and dated, like Great Grampa McSame.
What's next? An Anti-Obama ad with a Lawrence Welk theme?
Alert alert alert
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ysbaddaden,
The funny thing was I was picturing Peter Lorre, but I don't consider his role cannon in the Bond films.
McCain's wife... I thought that was too obvious to mention. Maybe she's Octopussy.
Come to think of it... Blofeld is too good for Cheney, who is more like Goldfinger (trying to loot the U.S. for his own nefarious means.)
I want my McShame points. They are not giving me my points.
That is a horrible and ridiculous ad but when Obama says that he is not a proponent of nuclear power he is not exactly telling the truth. When Exelon Corp. who operates nuclear power plants in Illinois got in a bit of trouble for not reporting leaks at these plants Obama was working both sides. After receiving more than $230,000 in contributions while in the Ill. Senate he kept watering down a bill that would make it mandatory to report these leaks until it became voluntary. His campaign manager David Axelrod has also worked for Exelon Corp as a consultant. I intend to vote for Obama but let's not make him into something he is not.
#82 Bluesage-
But he *is a Democrat, and he *is the only realistic candidate for president, as the situation is now.
I know too many Americans who won't even vote this November because they are so disgusted with their choices of candidate.
That's a crying shame, absolutely -- but at least they won't be voting for McCain either..
That's the trouble with using historical references, history as a subject was left behind with no (one important's) child.
Trouble is, McSame's so old and decrepit that W.J. Bryan seems like a contemporary, and a TRS-80, like cutting edge technology.
80 ThunderMonkey
And Yoo can be Oddjob.
What's next from mccain
A reference to McHale's Navy
F Troop
My Living Doll?
Alberto Gonzales and Ashcroft: Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.
I hope Monty Norman is getting paid...changing an occasional music
note up half a step in a piece of music does not make your composition original...
Plagiarism!
This is fun . . .
(Casino Royale) Insaino Grand Mal
(Live and Let Die) Outlive And Yet Lie
(Moonraker) Prunetaker
(Diamonds Are Forever) My Chum’s Not Too Clever
(From Russia with Love) Bum Rush Limbaugh's Love
(Dr. No) Hock Your Beau
(Goldfinger) Moldfinger
(For Your Eyes Only) For Your Lies Only
(Thunderball) Plundergrowl
(The Spy Who Loved Me) My Lie Blew Debris
(On Her Majesty's Secret Service) Oh, Your Travesty Campaign's Nervous
(The Man with the Golden Gun) The Klan With The Too Old Chum
(Octopussy) Octopissant
(The Living Daylights) The Lobby Pay Heights
Didnt Ron Paul get the nickname 'Dr No' for consistantly voting against the Constitution-stomping GOP agenda?
Obviously, he wasnt going to win...no way in hell...
But man am i glad he ran
ysbaddaden @ 86:
'Our Miss Brooks,' 'Amos and Andy' (a sure career ender) 'Peter Gunn' and 'Maverick' of course.
The only thing William Jennings Bryan and Barack Obama have in common is party affiliation. Bryan made several unsuccessful runs for the presidency and was often criticized for being a panderer - sounds more like McSame than Obama.
I'm surprised no one has likened McCain's retro-active understanding of the world to that of Dr. Evil's.
90 ThunderMonkey Says: Alberto Gonzales and Ashcroft: Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk-O9RTHicE
Obly @ 8:
SOOOOOOOoo TRUE!! This shows Obama to look more like a suave Bond agent than ever!
How cool is that?
Reminds me of LA, California ads trying to get the public on the side of the mayor telling the school board what to do and him making statements like: " We can't have educators and teachers trying to tell us what our kids should learn! Who do they think they are!!"
Did I just enter a Still Life With Woodpecker book?
McCain = Dr. Old
Ron Paul (the real Dr. No!) would destroy McBama and O'cain in public debates.. But no.... we can't have that. The War on Terror, Monetary Inflation, Fiscal Insanity, FISA and the Patriot Act must continue, right, Barack and John??
Was this an attempt to capture the youth voters by trying to make it look James Bondish? If so it fails miserably on so many different levels.
Dear John McCain:
Youth voters, including myself, are smarter than to be impressed with references to a movie that is over 40 years old. Try The Matrix, after all you are just like Agent Smith.
From Rusty
The Republicans are in trouble, that so was weak.
ysbaddaden @ 54:
that first sketch is Basil Rathbone
I liked this ad. It condensed Obama's arguments into a small space, and highlighted the fact that:
1. McCain is throwing up a bunch of ideas to see which one will stick; and
2. They are all just gimmicks.
When the text on the screen says something about clean safe nuclear energy, anybody who sees that is going to think of Montgomery Burns. The phrase is associated with corporate doublespeak, and it signals that the rest of McCain's ideas are equally bull shit.
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