Republicans used to exult in fielding candidates that voters would like “to have a beer with.” This year, of course, their candidate doesn’t drink beer—in fact, Mitt Romney’s so socially challenged that his advance team is wary about letting him share cookies with voters. But lately Obama has been raising the ante on social comfort, asking which candidate would you like to share a song or nod to a pulsing beat with, and the GOP clearly considers this to be some kind of dirty trick.
And so in the two days since Obama and Jimmy Fallon “slow-jammed the news” on Fallon’s late-night show (specially taped at
the University of North Carolina to underline the Democratic campaign
to keep student loan interest rates from doubling), the Republicans have
put out two web ads. Each tries to turn Obama’s strength into a
weakness, insisting that the “Preezy” is too busy being cool to be
presidential:
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