I like the "these men and women are the backbone of America." Words like that will hit home, itwill also say Obama is the backbone of America without actually saying so out loud. MAKE IT HAPPEN O CAMP.

Amen. I was thinking the same thing. And I've got an HD camera crew ready to roll here in Florida if we get the call.

I posted this suggestion earlier today on Matt Yglesias's blog, and I like the slightly different last paragraph I used on Matt's blog a bit better than the one above. This was the other version:

I worked hard for the people of Chicago’s South Side, and these people are working hard for their your communities today. We’re not going to stop until we bring change to Washington. But John McCain and Sarah Palin are deeply out of touch. It takes more than a few folksy sayings and cheep cracks to show you understand what drives regular folks across this country. Americans are tired of the insult politics, and the ugly, divisive, negative attacks on real American heroes from the phonies on the extreme right.

I would add that as a TV commercial, you could have the organizers lock arms with Obama at the end of the spot, or put their hands together in the middle of a circle like a team before the start of a game, while Obama says "I'm Barack Obama, and I definitely approve this message." Show Obama as the coach or leader of a national team of volunteers out to change America, and sweep away the crud of the past eight years.

Email to the Obama camp...this is priceless and again puts an exclamation point behind American's fighting for America, one neighborhood at a time. WE work together for change. This IS about us, not him.

Dan, I really admire do both you and Obama for taking the political high road to counter McCain/Palin. I hope it works. Still, I do think an Democratic surrogate or 527 needs to consider a lower road, just not the ones many are using right now.

While watching Palin last night the movie Mean Girls came to mind. I noticed in Recent Posts today that I am not the only one Sarah Palin reminded of that movie. McCain is the male counterpart. It could be extremely effective to tie McCain/Palin to their adolescent personalities, Punk McNasty and Sarah Barracuda, in a funny pop culture way.

this is great.

Palin was a "real leader" because she lead a small town in the middle of no where. Inner city communities with big problems need leadership beyond "mayor" because we don't have one mayor per 6,000 people. Does Wasilla realize we have that many people on one block in New York?

It was too early for Palin to take on the smarmy smirky too-Dick-Cheney kind of slimy attacks and insults.
Who does she think she is, a republican?
So she can memorize talking points and loves being in the limelight...that doesn't give her intellectual muscle, she flatters herself.
She's in way over her head..GOOD!

Saul Alinsky, in some ways the founder of modern American community organizing, wrote in "Rules for Radicals" that the greatest community organizer of all time was Paul. The organization he founded around 2000 years ago now has over 2 billion members.

Check it out Dan. Not quite what you suggested, but a good start. Best thing about the internet: we don't have to wait for the campaigns to pick up our ideas - we can get out there and do it together.
http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/

Dan K,
Good judo. It is a perfect set up for Obama to ask: Just who are the elite?
But the limit of how far the denigration by Palin can be played against the Republicans has perhaps been best measured by C Wright Mills back in the Fifties:

But the corporate rich of the forties and fifties, in their economic and in their political aspects-there are no such stereotypes of them; they are rather cynically accepted, and even secretly admired by members of mass society. No negative stereotype has been widely formed of the corporate rich and the political outsider; and if one or two should crop up in popular imagery, they are soon vanquished by the 'forward-looking' energetic clean-cut American boy as executive.
Given the state of the mass society, we should not expect anything else. Most of its members are distracted by status, by the disclosures of pettier immoralities, and by that Machiavellianism-for-the-little-man that is the death of political insurgency. Perhaps it might be different were the intellectual community not so full of the conservative mood, not so comfortably timid, not so absorbed by the new gentility of many of its members. But given these conditions of mass society and intellectual community, we can readily understand why the power elite of America has no ideology and feels the need of none, why its rule is naked of ideas, its manipulation without attempted justification. It is this mindlessness of the powerful that is the true higher immorality of out time; for, with it, there is associated the organized irresponsibility of the American system of corporate power. (from The Power Elite, page341-342

Today NPR Talk Of The Nation had Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund on and he critisised Acorn and voter fraud.

He also talked about Obama being employed and their attorny. He implied that the Democrats had advanced voter fraud and other such lies.

This of cource is the cover for them to steal the elections again. Go to the NPR site and lisen.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94282256

Talk of the Nation, September 4, 2008 · With the Republican National Convention in full swing in St. Paul, Minn., Talk of the Nation continues its series on the significance of this moment in the nation's history. Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund weighs in with his thoughts on the 2008 presidential election

HAHAHAHA!!!! ITS amazing how the Obamanation Cults are panicking about SARAH Palin... Now you are getting a taste of your own medecine!!! ObamaNATION finally met his match..HAHAHAHA!!!! go go PALIN, YOU ARE BREATH OF FRESH AIR.

I like your suggestion. You should send it to barackobama.com. If you make a web based comment, they will read it and respond. I disagree with the idea that it's too "goody two shoes." We need to point out how unappealing and unproductive Palin/McCain's attacks are. They are attacking because that is all they can do. They certainly cannot defend the repub record.