I was thinking the other day of a hilarious ad for YouTube or that the Obama people could run if they could do it within copywrite protections...

The ad would start with an image of a dinosaur sleeping on the floor of a Flintstone like cave...maybe the dinosaur could even have a likeness of McCain's face...

The ad would start with Dino yipping like he normally did and then the yips would morph into "...bomb...bomb...bomb...bomb...' with images of destruction in the Middle East, then "...drill...drill...drill..." with images of oil spills, then "...surge...surge...surge..." with images of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

After that scary montage, Fred would yell from other room, "Dino, shut up!"  And then a releaved Dino wakes up from his nightmares.

The Tag Line could run something like, "McCain, stuck in the wrong era."

It doesn't take an Einstein to understand that the greatest threat to getting Obama elected is not McCain but the Main Stream Media.  It wasn't necessarily the Swift Boat ads themselves, but the media circus that caused Kerry so much difficulty.

But we sit back and would rather argue about the merits of FISA or feminism, or any other arcane bit of public policy than be united to obtain the goal from which we can help make policy rather than debate it.

There need be no greater instance of this now than the Washington Post.  The Post has overtaken Fox News as the mouthpiece of the McCain campaign.  One need only read such trash as Obama's Victory Tour by Dana Milbank linked here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072902068.html?nav=hcmodule

One of the indisputable means the Republicans were able to steal the 2000 and 2004 elections is because they were united in their forceful methodology of defining the narrative and the public debate.  We must likewise do so or we risk watching McCain take the oath of office in January.

Yet, while there are paths for our leadership to take to modulate the public story, there are things we the people can do to help.  I have friends who VEHEMENTLY curse Fox News for their biased coverage and then sit down to watch American Idol.  I tell them they're nuts and I think they're finally getting the point.  How can you SUPPORT THE ENEMY???

There are also ways of helping to stem the tide of bad press in the media.  EVERY newspaper from the Seattle Intelligencer to the Miami Herald, and the Boston Globe to the LA Times...are ALL hurting badly for advertising revenue.  It might certainly be worth a try to complain to their advertisers about the tone those newspapers are taking and threaten them with a boycott of their services so long as they support the enemy.  I can think of no better method of seeing a change in their tune.

You can pray all you want to the Gods of Journalism for fair and balanced coverage, but until we decide to collective DO something, well...we'are just like a bunch of lemmings, and we know what happens to them.

The next time McCain says that he's willing or going to reach out across the aisle to work with the Democratic Congress if elected, Harry Reid should say, "With who?"

Someone ought to remind McCain he should be careful who he demonizes.