September , 2008 - Comedian Syd Stickel, on the
Presidential Election and Image:
"The Obama Camp has recently made a new strategic rebuttal to the McCain Camp's
barbs that Obama is nothing more than a 'rock star,' claiming that, in fact,
McCain is the 'celebrity,' the 'image' and 'rock star' candidate - long
famous for his war heroism, his service in the Senate, and his 'Maverick'
legislative reputation - and running solely on that, not issues." "Perhaps
Obama should take it a step further, and point out that, among the true 'rock
star' icons - Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, Ringo Starr,
Glenn Frye, Don Henley, etc - McCain is also actually much more of a
contemporary ."