McCain’s got a new ad in his bid to get elected student council president of America. It’s about, like, how hot young white girls are totally into Obama, which means A) you’re a dumb girl if you vote for him and B) those white girls want to fuck him, doesn’t that piss you off? I think that’s the point of this one, but I’ll admit that the overwhelming silliness of this campaign tactic has started to exhaust me a little bit… I fully expect that the next one will feature lisping, limp-wristed flaming poofs squealing about how ohmigod, barack obama just looked right at me! and will run on YouTube under the title homos for obama, with the equally subtle subtext being ewww, gay! and john mccain would never do that to another dude, but it’ll probably take a couple of weeks before they feel the need to run with it.

I’ve been writing a lot about John McCain lately, but not much about Obama. In case you’re wondering why, it’s because Obama isn’t really campaigning right now, at least not in a way that’s worth talking about. McCain, meanwhile, is running on a strategy that’s… we’ll go with bold, in that it offers nothing about himself or even really Obama, just an appeal to the backed-up resentment of a faceless portion of America who just doesn’t care for all those young people. But while the first ad, with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, was pretty effective, I’m wondering now if this approach is pretty much dried up. Even if you responded to the first one, at this point, you have to start wondering what else McCain has to say. You can effectively stoke the resentment of a lot of Americans, but you have to offer them an outlet. It hasn’t happened yet.

Meanwhile, the frustrated Obama supporters who resent the fact that he hasn’t hit back yet are nonetheless keeping quiet, which I’ll admit I don’t entirely understand. You’d figure that a 527 group would start its attacks soon, but it hasn’t happened yet. It seems like now would be the time to put McCain on the defensive, since his offense has more or less exhausted itself, but I don’t run these things… I’m not saying that you need to start gathering a bunch of old Naval officers to question whether or not McCain’s experience in a POW camp in Vietnam has left him a secretly brainwashed communist sleeper agent, awaiting only a phone call from Raul Castro speaking the code phrase he loves you to get him to announce a plan for a thousand year partnership with China while executing dissidents, but the silence is a strange tactic, and these groups are known for making noise. The McCain campaign has exhausted its current line of attack, and the time is ripe now to take a couple of weeks in the driver’s seat of the media narrative. But so far, the only third-party entity to inject itself into this campaign in a meaningful way has been Paris Hilton herself, and it seems a little surprising that George Soros or someone hasn’t sensed that the time is now to make a move.

Which isn’t necessarily what I want to see happen, but it would make sense. I like the campaign Obama’s been running, and I’m a fan of moveon.org’s decision to suspend their 527 on his example. It just seems like a strange set of coaching choices to not step in now with something to wrest control of the narrative away from McCain, now that his line has gotten stale and boring, like watching both of your opponent’s starting cornerbacks go down in the third quarter with severe ankle injuries and not even trying to air out the deep ball. A game manager might be all it takes to hold the lead, but Americans like to see some firepower.