Obama’s going to crush McCain in the presidential election unless something awful happens over the next few months. The most well-known Grandpa in the country has had his work cut out for him from the start. Meanwhile, the young educated brotha and the Ultimate Articulate Black guy (I claim him despite his mixed background) has continued to pick up momentum. But I guess at this point, that’s no big surprise.

Now I could talk about his epic speech in Germany in front of a crowd of 200,000 in a country that 60 years ago wouldn’t have had love for someone that looked like him (or me). I could talk about the real issues and why Obama’s platform will lead him to victory. I could elaborate on how he is such a captivating speaker, but I am going to take a much lower level approach that doesn’t require intense political discourse.

I was visiting the John McCain website for giggles the other day and the first thing I saw was a picture of Barack Obama. I looked at my browser to make sure I went to the right page, then looked again at what I was seeing. I was intrigued at why there was a picture of Barack, but then I noticed the angle they were taking. As I explored curiously, I came across a video showing various snippets of media outlets giving praise to Barack, as if the media was “in love with him”. It was almost as if they were saying it’s not fair that the media displays Barack in a positive light so often, while lil old McCain takes his Metamucil and campaigns quietly in the background. So, I am guessing this is an attempt at reverse psychology and not whining about a media that has typically displayed African Americans in a negative light overall finally coming around. The McCain camp secretly hopes that all the rebellious folks will go against the grain and support McCain just to hold true to their rebellious nature. Perhaps that will be his new slogan…

“Go Against the Grain, Support McCain!”

That does have a nice ring to it, but there’s something odd about the concept of going against the grain and supporting a traditional conservative. The man is probably worse than George Bush with computers (George referred to Google as “the Google”. See video below), and is far from “happening”. Irony maybe?

McCain has admitted he isn’t very good with technology. I bet Barack has an AIM screen name, or at least he did before they started tapping all his stuff. I’m not saying our next president needs to be a search engine guru or text message monster, but it wouldn’t hurt to be fairly current with technology. Sometimes it’s the simple things. McCain’s website even makes a feeble attempt at trying to portray him as young and hip (more like a bad hip). They even had one of those banner games on there called Shoot the Pork; but instead of shooting lasers or bullets, you were shooting the word “veto”. I was disgusted at this weak effort to employ the banner game method to get people interested. That same type of stuff made me hate Myspace, and I’m starting to hate his website too.

Like I said, he’s got a long way to go if he wants to catch Barack. He’s not gonna win the young crowd. He’s not gonna win the African American vote. And if his campaign staff continues to try to portray him as young and hip, he will continue to plummet.

Coincidentally, I just went back to the McCain website and the video of Obama isn’t on the front page anymore. It looks like they are smartening up already…