I won’t claim to be a political guru but I’m still scratching my head at the approach that the John McCain campaign has chosen to take in effort to discredit Barack Obama as a worth Presidential candidate.  Well now it seems that the Republican National Committee has subscribed to the same quizzical ideology.

On a regular basis I monitor the wires in effort to get news and information before its digested by other media outlets.  Today the RNC released the following press release:

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is an excerpt from an article by Benjamin Svtkey from Entertainment Weekly and is being released today by the Republican National Committee:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: A lot of your pop culture tastes are already listed on your Facebook page — we know you like the first two Godfather movies and are a big SportsCenter fan — but we want to get a little more specific and probing.

BARACK OBAMA: Absolutely, sure.

For instance, who’s your favorite movie or TV president?

You know who was a great movie president? Jeff Bridges in The Contender. That was a great movie president. He was charming and essentially an honorable person, but there was a rogue about him. The way he would order sandwiches — he was good at that.

Is that one of the things you’re looking forward to? Confounding the White House kitchen staff with obscure sandwich requests?

Absolutely. I want to test them. I want to see if I can get any sandwich I want.

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I honestly don’t get it.  What does the RNC stand to gain by releasing this?  What is it they’re saying about their nominee’s opponent?  Are they trying to disparage those who display their allegience for Obama on Facebook?  Is it an attempt to discredit the pop cultured voters?  Are they saying they’re less informed and base their voting decisions on the image portrayed to them by Hollywood?  I’m not sure…maybe you can help because if that indeed is their intent, its quite irresponsible.  Perhaps the real quesiton is not what they’re saying about Barack but why they’re NOT SAYING ENOUGH about John McCain.