John "The Surge!" McCain (With Update)

One of my favorite moments from the Democratic primaries was when Joe Biden, during a debate last October, mocked Rudi Giuliani's obsession with 9/11. Here's what Biden said:

"And the irony is, Rudy Giuliani, probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency, is here talking about any of the people here. Rudy Giuliani... I mean, think about it! Rudy Giuliani. There's only three things he mentions in a sentence -- a noun, a verb, and 9/11. * * *"

Well, I think the time has come to start mocking McCain with regard to his apparent obsession with The Surge. Here is what McCain said today:

What we need today is an Economic Surge to keep jobs here at home and create new ones. We need to reduce the tax burden on businesses that choose to make their home in the United States of America. We need to open new markets to U.S. products. And we need to reduce the cost of healthcare. And we need to end the out of control spending in Washington that is putting our debt on the backs of our children.

This isn't the first time McCain has applied The Surge to other matters (from Think Progress):

McCain’s policy prescriptions for the major issues often boil down to simply tacking on the word “surge.” In the past, he has trumpeted the Iraq surge and recently embraced an Afghanistan surge. Last week, he suggested a surge to control inner-city crime.

I think the time has come for the Obama camp to run ads which mock the fact that McCain seems to mention only three things in a sentence -- a noun, a verb, and THE SURGE! Of course, that would mean that Obama would have to run (gasp!) a negative ad, and heaven forbid he do that. It just wouldn't be nice.

You know, Hillary had her problems, and she would have carried them into the general election had she been the nominee. But I doubt one of her problems would have been a fear of running attack ads against McCain.

UPDATE: This is from Political Wire:

According to a new Pew Research poll, 48% of Americans say they have been "hearing too much" about Sen. Barack Obama lately.

"In contrast, if anything, Pew's respondents said they want to hear more, not less about the Republican candidate. Just 26% in the poll said they had heard too much about McCain, while a larger number (38%) reported that they had heard too little about the putative Republican candidate."

Hmmm -- now that's an interesting situation. So people want to hear more about McCain. Let's see -- what could Obama possibly do to give the voters more information about McCain.

That certainly is a difficult problem. A real head-scratcher. But maybe -- just maybe -- Obama might want to consider . . . running some m*ther-f*cking attack ads. That might help.