Bob Cesca: The Exotic Candidate Is The One With Eight Houses

The barbecue media script for this election, a work of unabridged fiction and co-written by the modern Rove Republicans, has crow-barred Sen. Obama into the incongruous frame of the exotic effete elitist, irrespective of the fact that, on all counts, he's absolutely none of those things. It's the same script that's been wheeled out during the last several presidential elections -- designed as a way of sculpting reality into a neatly packaged prime time dramatic narrative that both reinforces and exploits fear-based stereotypes. Despite griping from the McBush Republicans, the truth is that Sen. McCain is far and away the more elitist and exotic of the two candidates.