Now why doesn't the Obama campaign release an ad like this?

Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films is doing some great video work during this campaign, like this one, which demonstrates the disconnect between John McCain's rhetoric about the housing crisis and the ten homes John McCain enjoys, not because of his own hard work, but because he dumped his first wife to marry an heiress:

I only wish that Barack Obama and his campaign would take a page from Greenwald's book and stop chiding supporters for impugning John McCain's integrity and start impugning it himself.

Obama promised us that he lad learned from John Kerry's mistakes of 2004, but we've seen precious little sign that he has. Yes, he called George W. Bush "John McCain's president" yesterday, but that's the kind of weak punch that I could throw, when what's needed is something more akin to a verbal sledgehammer -- or simply pointing out that a man who has ten homes as a result of his wife's money has nothing to say to Americans who just wanted to be able to own a home.

He might start by reminding people that there used to be a word for a man who goes looking for a rich heiress to support him: