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That last sentence should read "when you come from where we did, you never forget where you came from"

And I was on such a role...

Posted at August 26, 2008 4:32 AM in response to The Eight Houses of Barack Obama

I believe Obama worked with Ayers because they were both on a board that had a huge grant to try to fix Chicago's public schools. Its sort of like Wright's church having a huge and active ministry to the poor, with job training, day care and an Aids outreach mission.

You'll never hear that from Sean Hannity. Any phrase more complex than "60's radical" or "racist church" fails to serve his agenda. It doesn't matter to the right if you are 99.9 good, if they can find anything you've done bad that suits their politics, they will define you as that 1 thing. But call McCain a cheat or a womanizer or a golddigger, or a shill for the Keating 5 or for big oil, or a cheerleader for the Iraq war and you'll get accused of insulting a POW war hero.

Posted at August 26, 2008 4:28 AM in response to Obama Response Ad Ties Ayers Swift-Boating Spot Directly To McCain

Great POST!

You are only a brilliant strategist when your candidate is winning. When you campaign blows a 20 point lead and all its money before February, You can't charge as much. That's why all the Clintonistas are pushing the angst.

As for the networks, they are addicted to the Clinton drama like crack heads. its exciting, its got conflict, sex, race and it gets people to watch. the nets have a vested interest in it, and they are pushing it for the ratings. Shame SHame. They hype Hillary like a missing white girl.

Posted at August 25, 2008 10:04 PM in response to PAUL BEGALA AND JAMES CARVILLE ARE ACTIVELY UNDERCUTTING OBAMA AT THE DNC CONVENTION

I saw the ame guy in a cblke news show with one of his focus groups. They loved Barack, wanted change and hated Hillary. Not sure, but I think it was in New Hampshire.

I remember thinking it was really good at the time, and very wrong soon after.

Posted at August 25, 2008 9:52 PM in response to Joe Klein's Journalistc Treason Against Barack Obama

The answer to "the surge is working" is painfully obvious. When America needed aMAverick to stand up to Dick and Scooter's lie machine, John McCain put on his cheerleader skirt and beat the war drum. He wasn't just a little bit wrong, he was out in front with pom-poms worng. For a guy who is supposed to hate war, he seems to like getting into them. He's ready to put NATO troops into a conflict with Russia, when we way more need Russia to contain Iran. That's not smart foriegn policy, that's knee-jerk nuts.

That ought to be an argument Obama can win. I just think he doesn't want to be doing much arguing until the convention is over.

Posted at August 19, 2008 12:36 AM in response to McCain Just After 9/11: "Next Up, Baghdad!"

I think that ad is targeted to the media, all of whom will see it. The hope is one of them will slip up and actually do their job and hold McCain accountable.

It looks to me like the Obama campaign is holding fire and letting the McCain smears accumulate. Their response theme that they are already laying out it that McCain will lie and say anything to win, that he is all attack dog with no real ideas. But I also sense they do not want to risk losing the high ground by turning Obama into an Attack Back Dog. Better to hold fire now and unleash a torrent closer to the election, when everyone is paying attention now.

The current McCain attacks are helping Obama look less like "any other politician" as they undermine McCain's image as an above partisan politics guy. Ali would call this the "rope-a-dope".

Posted at August 10, 2008 3:55 PM in response to Election Central Sunday Roundup

So the political cost Obama must pay on FISA is to have the left rip on him, thus helping McCain win. Now exactly how does President McCain benefit the progressive cause?

The mistake in 2000 was not that Gore moved the the middle. The mistake was the idiots who wasted their votes on Nader. The only greater idiocy is to do it again this year, and tear down a much better guy with a much better chance.

If Obama had voted against FISA, there would be ads on TV right now claiming he'd rather protect the trial lawyers, than protect the American people. Instead, all McCain can do is call him a flip flopper. So, please, unless you want McCain to win, stop parroting his spin. If you want FISA fixed, there's a much better chance with President Obama than with President McCain. So stop helping McCain win.

Posted at July 13, 2008 8:44 PM in response to Poll: National Race Tightens; Majority Says Obama Flip-Flopped On Key Issues

My experience with friends in the media is that if they like a candidate, they bend over backwards to make sure that is NOT reflected in their coverage. Polls show reporters are overwhelmingly Democrats. Did that stop them from repeating the Swift Boat lies, or saying Kerry was a flip-flopper, or Al Gore invented the internet? Nope. They don't want it to appear they are defending the guy they prefer. They are super sensitve to being labeled "the liberal media", and the right uses them to push them into a box. The reason they repeat McCain campaign speak is because they are afraid of being accused of being Pro-Obama.

I contend the mass media has been totally anti Obama ever since the 1st Saturday night live skit accusing them of it. They cut Hilary enourmous slack as she damaged Obama in her senseless quest for glory in the last month of her campaign. She got away with downing shots, saying only she could get whites to vote for her, comparing Florida and Michigan with slavery, and pandering across Puerto Rico to build up popular votes from people who can't vote in November, with almost no criticism.

Not convinced? Look at what McCain got away with this week, between Gramm, Viagra, and Iraq calling for a time table.

I rest my case.

Maybe Obama is letting them pile on him now, so when he accuses them of being Pro-McCain, he'll plenty of proof. Like this week. He took more flak for letting his daughters be interviewed than McCain took for not knowing that he voted against making insurance companies cover birth control. One is irrelevant...the other probably effects 30 million women.

Posted at July 13, 2008 8:28 PM in response to Poll: National Race Tightens; Majority Says Obama Flip-Flopped On Key Issues

My experience with friends in the media is that if they like a candidate, they bend over backwards to make sure that is NOT reflected in their coverage. Polls show reporters are overwhelmingly Democrats. Did that stop them from repeating the Swift Boat lies, or saying Kerry was a flip-flopper, or Al Gore invented the internet? Nope. They don't want it to appear they are defending the guy they prefer. They are super sensitve to being labeled "the liberal media", and the right uses them to push them into a box. The reason they repeat McCain campaign speak is because they are afraid of being accused of being Pro-Obama.

I contend the mass media has been totally anti Obama ever since the 1st Saturday night live skit accusing them of it. They cut Hilary enourmous slack as she damaged Obama in her senseless quest for glory in the last month of her campaign. She got away with downing shots, saying only she could get whites to vote for her, comparing Florida and Michigan with slavery, and pandering across Puerto Rico to build up popular votes from people who can't vote in November, with almost no criticism.

Not convinced? Look at what McCain got away with this week, between Gramm, Viagra, and Iraq calling for a time table.

I rest my case.

Maybe Obama is letting them pile on him now, so when he accuses them of being Pro-McCain, he'll plenty of proof. Like this week. He took more flak for letting his daughters be interviewed than McCain took for not knowing that he voted against making insurance companies cover birth control. One is irrelevant...the other probably effects 30 million women.

Posted at July 13, 2008 8:28 PM in response to Poll: National Race Tightens; Majority Says Obama Flip-Flopped On Key Issues

It is often said that this race is all about Obama. The reality is, its all about whether America is reasy to elect a realy smart, young black guy. McCain can't win on his own merits.. he only wins if people find Obama unacceptable. So making him so is the single goal of all of his critics, and hyping race issues is the easist way to do it. Just look at that list and see how many of those "problems" have a racial element to them.

No wonder the MSM has decided that picking on McCain goofs just doesn't make good TV. On the other hand, anything to do with Obama has a much deeper emotional impact, because hiding beneath about 70% of them is the undiscussed issue of race, an issue each American relates to on a personal basis. And because so many Americans are equally busy claiming they aren't racist but someone else is, this stuff resonates with viewers in a way calling them all whiners just doesn't.

This is not going to change. So it needs to be out in the open. Time to call a spade a spade.

I think this should be Bill Clinton's job for fall. To challenge America not to vote on its racial fears. To put an end to the Southern stratgey once and for all, by yanking off the sheet and letting the sun shine in

Posted at July 12, 2008 10:51 AM in response to The Problem with Obama