If the Republican presidential nominee ever doubted liberal activist groups' commitment to his continued embarrassment, he should doubt no longer.
The Campaign for America's Future, which sponsored this week's proudly left-leaning Take Back America confab in the capital, is seizing on McCain's visit to France with a new internet advert. The (admittedly corny) script savages McCain once again for enabling the European defence company Airbus to score a $40bn aircraft contract earlier this month.
Check out the video below, and raise your hand if you're unnerved by US liberal groups resorting to the same sort of anti-French stereotypes that rightwing loonies employed during the heyday of the Iraq war:
