Just as You Suspected, John McCain’s Running a Scorched Earth Campaign
John McCain's gotten off easy for those attack ads he's got in heavy rotation on local radio with the tag line, "Just as you suspected, Barack Obama's wrong for you."
The spot implies folks "suspected" Obama's wrong before knowing anything about his policies.
That leaves Obama's name and appearance as the reason for their suspicions.
I'd love to hear the McCain campaign's explanation of that punchline. The "idiot wind" is blowing really strong in Virginia.
(Tho it is great to see one of Bob Dylan's vintage gems get a shoutout.)
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12:39 pm
That's a Hot.F'in.Dylan track you found there.
1:42 pm
Ain't it great, MdB?
back to me: the Rolling Thunder Revue era, coming just when i started buying my own LPs, was the peak of my Dylan fandom, and i still think it was his coolest period, as a singer and a dresser. and that band! mick ronson!
Look at all the youtube videos from those days for confirmation; they're all amazing.
that tour didn't come anywhere near here. the closest gig was at the Clinton (NJ) Correctional Institute for Women, and i don't think they'd've let me in for that.
so i didn't see my first bob dylan show till two years later, when he played the capital centre wearing a sequined jumpsuit and had a huge Vegas-style stage show. i was crushed.
i'm going to go watch "Idiot Wind" again!
1:45 pm
Agree wholeheartedly that's my fave Dylan era. Everything from Nashville Skyline to Desire! Awesomeness!
2:10 pm
You guys are insane. Bringing It All Back Home-Highway 61 Revisited-Blonde On Blonde era Dylan would wipe the floor with Rolling Thunder Revue era Dylan. No contest.
2:16 pm
Everything? Even "Self Portrait"?
2:21 pm
Dave:
it ain't just about the songs! go look up photos of your choice -- very early Dylan -- and listen to his original version of "Maggie's Farm."
then go watch the Rolling Thunder revue version of the same song, and get back to me about who looks and sounds cooler.
'course, my preferences might have something to do with which albums my parents bought, and which ones i bought.
but i still think i'm right...
3:12 pm
I guess if you take into account everything about Dylan - songs, image, intangibles, etc. - then the Rolling Thunder era scores some points. But I've never been able to get into his version of songs from that era. They just sound too Eagles-y to me.
Early electric Dylan takes the cake in my book in terms of all-around badassery. There's more punk rock in the opening 6 seconds of "Outlaw Blues" than in the entire catalogues of Johnny Rotten, Joey Ramone, Ashlee Simpson, et. al.
3:37 pm
I thought the song quite pleasing, in a hippie beatnik fashion. What do you call that music genre, Grunge, Emo or something?