McCain's "Divine" Ad Is a Disaster

I'm putting a McCain ad here! Because I think it is a disaster...for McCain.

Anyone who's trying to appeal to a conservative, religious base should not be mocking religion, using religious symbolism and suggestions to make a humorous, nasty political point.

As anyone knows, as from the Huckabee ad, if you're using religious themes, make sure you're doing it in a reverent way. To me, this is a very boneheaded move on McCain's part. He's using religious themes to belittle someone!

Obama actually doesn't come across half bad in the ad, which is remarkable in itself. The place where he's talking about 'lights coming down' was obviously in jest, as you can see the people around laughing and, as I recall, it was some self-deprecating moment.

If you took it at literal face value -- that Obama is chosen by God to be president -- it makes the point at the end rather facile. If he is "the one," then whether he can "lead" or not should not be in dispute. (By the way, why did McCain support Bush in two elections? He was a completely failure.)

What do you think of this, Dobson? Your Republican candidate thinks religious is just a big joke, something in which he can attribute messianic imagery to his opponent in order to mock him and, in the process, mock the very idea that God could ever be trying to help us.

John McCain mocks religion.