The McCain campaign has reason to be nervous about the announcement of Joe Biden for vice president. Throughout this primary season, John McCain has tried to position himself as the foreign policy expert, “man of the people” candidate versus Barack Obama’s less experienced, “elitist” candidate. McCain has proved time and time again that he’s extremely weak in foreign policy (and likely to get us into a war with Russia). And his “how many houses do I own?” gaffe of last weak punched some holes into his “man of the people” claim. Then Barack Obama chooses Joe Biden- chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations and one of the lowest earning Senators- as his running mate. Not helpful to McCain’s framework.

McCain’s attempting to fight back with two new ads. The first takes two quotes from Joe Biden: one from this year’s presidential debates where Biden said he thought Obama was inexperienced and the other (not identified in the commercial) is from a 2005 appearance Biden made on The Daily Show. That second quote is the more problematic, since Biden states that he would support a McCain presidency and even run with him. But McCain was a different politician in 2005 than he is now and Biden can probably talk his way out of it.

The second McCain ad is meant to further anger the Hillary Clinton supporters who have, by their estimation, been slighted now for the second time by Clinton’s v.p. shutout. Honestly, if someone is still that angry that Clinton didn’t win the nomination, they’re probably not going to be voting Obama anyway.