The McCain camp has issued a new ad in which they ridicule Obama as being "The One". I first saw reference to this ad earlier today in a diary on MYDD.

When I first saw the ad I thought to myself that it was pretty lame. I watched it several more times and noticed how out of context the statements used in the ad were from the real quotes by Obama.

The ad hits several points of supposed hubris from Barack. The first is to ridicule him as "The One". Of course, we all know Obama has never said anything remotely like this about himself. They use a clip of Barack saying, "We are the ones we have been waiting for..." Not quite the same thing is it?

The next point made in the ad is that he has annointed himself as "The One". Rachel Maddow tears this one apart in the video posted below. She does it far better than I could, so I'll let her do it for me.

Next they use the last few seconds from an interview on Face the Nation where he is asked if he has any doubts. His answer is, "Never." Now, of course, the question wasn't whether he ever has doubts about anything. It was about whether he had any doubts of winning the election. Anyone in his position would be working against himself if they allowed doubts to creep in. The comment comes in the last 10-15 seconds of the video. I've posted the video at the end of the diary if you want to watch it.

Then they hit the speech he gave mocking Hillary for implying that his followers see him as the Messiah. This was about her "the sky will open..." mockery in a speech in Rhode Island. He is parodying the idea, yet they present it as if he really believes that.

The one place in the whole ad where they actually use something that has merit is his comments in his victory speech about "the moment the planet began to heal." They then show a stupid clip of Charlton Heston as Moses.

The Moses clip was the only part of the ad I thought was effective, but it wasn't enough to salvage the whole thing.

I found this video on Matt Yglesias' site. It was there as an example of how good Rachel Maddow is on television. Quote from the post on Matt's blog - "So there are all these liberals in the country. Probably if you took a smart liberal who performs well on television and made her the host of a TV show, those liberals would watch that show. Just a theory."

She is addressing the "Symbol" portion of the ad.

Face the Nation interview where Obama says, "Never."