Blog: Obama releases paired positive and negative ads, making a direct-to-camera, bread-and-butter case for the abstract of "change," while hars

With the race's final stretch set to be fought out on the rhetorical turf of who's promising real change, the Obama campaign is out two new ads that seek to refine and recapture his change message and further cast McCain as hidebound and out of touch with today's realities.The first ad, a tough spot signaling a newly aggressive Obama campaign, batters McCain by recalling that he entered the Senate in 1982 -- "times have changed since then," the narrator notes -- and still can't use a computer:The second features Obama himself directly addressing the camera and sharing his vision of real change...Meanwhile, the McCain campaign is up with a new "celeb" sneer spot that says the Obama campaign "lashed out" at Sarah Palin and "dismissed her as good looking" because Obama's "star is fading."...We don't have time to check this right now, but if memory serves, didn't Team McCain at some point dismiss Obama as good-looking? Rings a bell...