Organize, organize,organize. If the Lone Star remains this competitive, I'd pour money in under the radar and make an appearance Sept/October and then one in Arizona. Hero or not McCain needs some dirt rubbed in his face as do Republicans.

Posted at June 27, 2008 6:14 PM in response to Obama Campaign Manager's New Video Lays Out Strategy For Victory

It's high time this self-serving schlub was grabbed by the belt and forcefully removed from the Dem caucus, preferably with stairs involved.

Posted at June 26, 2008 7:16 PM in response to Lieberman Plays The Wright Card

Alot of bandwidth for a lot of nothing.McCain is talking to Bush's base on every issue. He comes off as dry and detached and the only others who are listening are the media types getting free barbecue.
I don't know who this Theda person is but she comes off as a contrarian. If McCain has lined his ducks up so neatly where is his bump, anywhere. I'll admit though, Plouff played the Hope card effectively in the primaries and is playing reactionary to McCain's Foot in mouth Fest. The problem is imho, Plouff is used to playing defense and winning. The general may not be as forgiving should another shoe drop. The flip side is if Obama gets too aggressive, he may look like the greenhorn picking on the Old Man that the MSM will swallow whole. I forget who wrote it but the Obama campaign can not keep pointing out McCain's being out of touch as it may come off as agism. But then don't oversell McCain's getting a leg up when it's Bush's stead he is still trying to ride. And this thread is beginning to have all the charm of a "I can draft better than So and So's General Manager".

Posted at June 26, 2008 2:44 PM in response to Can the Obama Campaign Shape the Agenda?

Time to be more conciliatory maybe but I did love the Burma Shave riff

Posted at May 7, 2008 11:14 PM in response to Obama Rollout Of Super-Dels Begins

Don't know if many here read Rove's piece in Newsweek on what Obama needs to do, but it was spot on, regardless of how you feel about the messenger. The Wright story has not become the Swift Boat for Obama. He needs to start taking on McCain and stop addressing the Wright issue or he will fall into the trap of being defined by the issue. Let the surrogates go to war on Billary. Barack needs to rerresh his message, put teeth into it and hammer John W. McBush 24/7. Do the defining and put McBush on the defense where he has to explain what he is or isn't. Grab the message and don't let go. And for the love of Mike, don't let another shoe drop.

Posted at May 1, 2008 12:51 PM in response to Another Republican leaves the dark side.

As the `60's Civil Rights marchers used to sing, "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize". We are stuck with the Billary nuisance for now but it is a good challenge for Obama to practice for the general as the crap will only deepen when he finally claims the right to the nomination. It's never a skate against Team Clinton and being tested on the black ice can only help in the end as Obama can weave together his teflon suit he'll need for the general. Now that Camp Billary is claiming the process will be done by June, she will look very self-serving if Willy can not muscle the necessary supers to steal the crown and the only arrow left in their quiver would be to threaten going Liebermann on the party if they don't get their way. It'll be up to the Elders to show who finally has the balls to stand up for something as important as this election/Nation. I feel recharged already.

Posted at May 1, 2008 12:41 PM in response to Another Republican leaves the dark side.

Hillary's like the corpse who shows at her own funeral and doesn't know enough to get into the casket. Instead she relies on Rovian Billy to further drive her own and Democrats negatives up. The corpse is beginning to stink. Bury it already.

Posted at April 28, 2008 6:34 PM in response to AP/Ipsos: Hillary Performing Better Than Obama Against McCain

I will always believe that part of Joey's beef is that the party; namely Gore threw their lot in with Kerry in `04. I say drag him out of caucus and toss him down the steps. He doesn't even have the courage to declare as a Repugnicon as it would cost him his seat. For all his bluster he doesn't have the integrity to admit his loyalties by name. I hope McCain tabs him as his veep and they both go down in flames.

Posted at April 19, 2008 12:56 AM in response to The Line You May Not Cross

The 10% gap is made up of Muslim terrorists supporting Obama to weaken the nation.

Posted at March 27, 2008 6:15 PM in response to New Poll Shows No Real Imbalance In Potential Dem Defections To McCain

All the hand wringing over Obama's ineffectiveness and Clinton's effectiveness as a fighter is overblown. Obama does not need to counterpunch in the middle of a flurry. Clinton is trying to define him and if he goes to the kitchen sink, he isn't going to score a knockout but then neither will she. But it forces him to fight off the ropes. Not a good place to start and little can be gained. He has to show that he can absorb her blows while going after McSame and put him in corner before the nomination is locked up. That way he looks like he can take a punch come out after the real enemy and let Clinton keep throwing bolos until she looks so desparate that the sink no longer matters and he goes into copnvention with a delegate lead and very likely a lead in the popular vote with evidence that she is willing to throw the Obama, the Supers, the entire party for that matter under the bus when they lose. Billary will be backed so far into a corner that it will have to strike out at the entire party. For now, Obama can work on defining McSame and get blows in on Clinton as well by lumping them both together on poor judgement for Iraq and pointing out her Lieberman credentials as she gave what amounted to an endorsement of McSame over Obama when she loses the primary. Hammer the meme that Clinton is willing to throw the party under the bus to get four more years of Bush to assauge her petty ego when she loses. To hell with this VP smokescreen, we've seen what the Clinton's word means. Think IS. Obama should call her out by making her show her Dem cred by verbally promising to work for Obama in the general, put her in the passengers seat. It's too bad that the McSame's "blowup" with Bumiller wasn't more of a donneybrook as Obama would have taped evidence that McSame is just a little right of stable. Throw in a couple Hillary screeches and make them respond.

Posted at March 7, 2008 8:23 PM in response to On Conference Call, Obama Advisers Parry More Incoming Fire