Obama attacks McCain for owning seven houses

It's about time we started attacking McCain's character; it may be dirty, but it's effective.

However, for a while I've thought that Obama should focus his attacks on the Republican Party itself and turn the election into one between the Democrats and the Republicans, not just between Obama and McCain. A HuffPost article from yesterday made a similar argument, claiming that McCain was the GOP's hood ornament and that Obama should attack the entire car since his personality is more important than McCain's.

People don't quite trust the GOP on the economy, so I think this ad is a good move since it reinforces this distrust by reminding people that the Republican candidate is out of touch. Perhaps a follow-up ad titled "Country Club Republicans" that shows Phil Gramm's "nation of whiners" soundbite would reinforce this message even more.

I still think we should attack the party itself more than tying McCain into Bush, but it chipping the veneer off of the hood ornament and make its exposed, chintzy plastic more visible doesn't hurt.

Link to the ad on YouTube

UPDATE: McCain's response to Obama's attack: He was a POW in Vietnam.

This reminds me of something else I've been thinking about: McCain's stuck in the 1960's. To me, a nineteen-year old, McCain seems more and more out of touch everytime he talks about Ayers, everytime he talks about being captured in a war fought forty years ago, and everytime he connects Obama's message to 1960's liberalism.