Time’s Joe Klein, last seen urging his fellow MSM’ers to fight, fight, fight the McCain campaign’s accurate assessment that they were trying to destroy Sarah Palin, now is whining about a myth gap between Palin and Obama. (Will somebody please tell these people that it’s McCain who is at the top of the GOP ticket!)
Obama is the precise opposite of Mountain Man Todd Palin: an entirely urban creature. He lives within the hilarious conundrum of being both too “cosmopolitan” and intellectual for Republican tastes — at least as Rudy Giuliani described it — while also being the sort of fellow suspected of getting ahead by affirmative action.
The Democrats have no myth to counter this powerful Republican fantasy.
Check out the two videos below, the first of Obama dancing with Ellen and the second of Todd Palin winning a 2,000-mile snow machine race with a broken arm. As my auto mechanic Charlie is fond of saying, “Now there’s your problem”: