there’s nothing funny about Barack Obama

That’s what all the late-night comedy writers told Bill Carter, and that’s what he wrote on the front page of the New York Times, and so of course I thought it was true.

And then all of a sudden I started to see all kinds of funny stuff about him.

Openly mocking Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as having a Messiah complex, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) launched a new attack ad today making fun of his opponent as “The One.”

The Web commercial, which compares Obama to both Jesus and Moses, opens with the narrator intoning in a prophetic voice, “It shall be known that in 2008 the world will be blessed. They will call him ‘The One.’” The parody features clips with Obama employing his loftiest rhetoric, including “A nation healed, a world repaired” in one speech and “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for” in another.

“And he has anointed himself, ready to carry the burdens of the world,” the narrator continues, as the screen is bathed in gauzy light before it flashes on the screen Obama’s recent comment, “I have become a symbol of America returning to his best traditions.”