August 02, 2008
Obama's New Attack Ads Compare McCain to Katherine Hepburn

Jim David | Bio

Text of new Obama attack ad against John McCain, released exclusively to 23/6:

BLACK SCREEN

NARRATOR: He's the oldest celebrity ever in the whole world.

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(Image of Kate Hepburn and Henry Fonda from On Golden Pond, the scene where Hepburn is embracing the Alzheimer's addled Fonda on the porch, where Hepburn's head is shaking uncontrollably and Fonda looks like he doesn't know what's going on)

NARRATOR
: There have been older celebrities, but they're dead now.

(Images of George Burns, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan, Helen Hayes, John Wayne and Dame Edith Evans)

NARRATOR: Now John McCain is the oldest living celebrity.

(Image of McCain talking to old lady fans in wheelchairs)

NARRATOR: But .....

(Image of McCain using a walker)

NARRATOR: Is he ready to lead? Is he even able, for heaven's sake?

(Image of McCain in falling off platform)

NARRATOR: Does he even know what the hell is going on?

(Image of McCain looking puzzled and out of it after reporter's question)

NARRATOR: Does he have Tourette's Syndrome?

(Image of McCain making dead serious statement and then doing scary smile)

NARRATOR
: What about dementia?

(Image of Estelle Getty in The Golden Girls)

NARRATOR: Do you want your country to be led by a septuagenarian who thinks everything is fine? What if he needs a bedpan in the middle of the State Of The Union?

(Images of Nero, Moses, and Methuselah, photoshopped into nursing home beds)

NARRATOR: Barack Obama. At least he has all his teeth.

(Image of Obama flashing megawatt smile)

FADE OUT