They can attack Obama but we should attack their entire ship.  The Republicans are dangerously vulnerable.  As a party.  If the party goes down, he goes down.  

For every Republican action there's not an opposite and equal Democratic reaction.
It's as if they didn't go to surrogate boot camp.
Where are they?  Have you seen them anywhere?
When the Republicans collectively steamroll an issue into the national dialogue, like drilling for oil in ANWR, the Democrats should counter with a powerful uppercut.  

But they hesitate.  There's a measured, let's just take it easy, none of us wants to get hurt response.   
They're tentative and the fans are screaming for them to throw a punch.    
But nothing.  
An unsatisfying hush peppered with a few Democratic quips and then, they vanish into thin air.     In this election, the loudest party wins.  And the relative quiet and wavering let's not rock the boat mentality of the Democrats is perceived as weak.  Every time they've had a chance to stand strong and resolute, they recede. 

Why?
Because the Republicans will call them weak on national security.  The Republicans will call them unpatriotic, The Republicans will say they don't want to support our troops, that they want to surrender to terrorists, lose the war,  and remain dependent on foreign oil.  The Republicans will say the Democrats just want to conduct endless investigations instead of conducting the business of the American people.  (Even though those investigations are the business of the American people.)  
Barack Obama has said we shouldn't give in to the politics of fear.  
So what do the Democrats do to set an example?  Give in to the politics of fear.
They take impeachment hearings off the table.  They never really put impeachment hearings on the table.   Investigations into almost everything evaporate.  
They stood up against military funding for an occupation and they gave in.  They stood up against telecom immunity and they gave in.  They stood up against drilling for oil and now they seem to be giving in to that too.  
It's gotten to the point where every time they stand up, I don't know what it is they stand for.  
Do they?
In terms of driving an agenda,  the Republicans have been an incredibly effective majority.  Now, even as a minority, I think the Republicans are more effective than the Democrats.  
With the Bush administration at the helm and neocons having  infiltrated every branch of government, government agency and the press over the last eight years, a party can lose its voice.  
So it's not surprising you can't hear them.  
But Democrats, it's now or never.  Eight years of going in the wrong direction on almost every issue.  Eight years of unparalleled incompetence and corruption.  
Perhaps now more than ever, independents and moderates and disillusioned Republicans are listening.  
Enough of them want to take America back.  
They want to see how passionately you'll fight for your country.  

I can't watch it anymore.  And if I do, I just turn the sound off until something of substance is being discussed. And that's become a rare occasion.  It's all McCain said this, Obama said that, McCain said this.  This isn't journalism.  This is gossip.  
Have any of you stopped watching it?  Television news has been losing viewers for over a decade.  
Here's something I wrote in another post:

I'd like the following people to ask "is it news or is it gossip?" and "Should I verify that this isn't just hearsay, or something taken out of context BEFORE I write or broadcast?
-Andrea Mitchell
-Dana Milbank
-Jake Tapper
-Bill Kristol
-Charles Krauthammer
-Jonathan Weisman
-Harold Ford Jr.
-Joe Scarborough
-Pat Buchanaan
-Wolf Blitzer

I'd also like all the cable news channels to ask:

"How many times a day should we run the same attack ad in its entirety as news, not commercial air time, before we're the ones guilty of damaging a candidate's reputation?"

"Are we just parroting what everyone else gossips about or whatever the White House talking points are or are we serving a journalistic purpose?"

"On issues, such as drilling for oil in ANWR, should we just have politicians from both sides recite talking points or should we look into an issue on our own and report facts neither side mentions?"

Glenn Greenwald posts a comprehensive and enlightening summary of the 2001 anthrax attacks, the lie that they were perpetrated by Saddam Hussein, and ABC's complicity in the whole matter.  
Here's the link.  (Scroll down a little on the page.)
I think it's important for everyone to read because as Glenn suggests, the anthrax scare was another example of the administration using a curiously all too cooperative press to seed the idea that the anthrax came from Iraq, when in fact, it came from a U.S. government lab.  

I don't think I've seen anyone in modern political history as desperate and slanderous as Fox Noise Machine Sean Hannity.  For two years he's been trying to stretch associations between Barack Obama and anyone he can think of,  from Hitler to Attila the Hun.  He's not just passionate about this, he's gluttonous.  Tonight, he set his sights on the non-existent close friendship between Barack and Ludicris--who has recently come out with a song attacking McCain, Clinton and others.   
I remember a few months back when he was trying to sell America the Rev. Wright story.  He played that video compilation, which represented two minutes of 30 years worth of sermons.  
"HE'S DONE!  HE'S FINISHED" exclaimed Sean, not understanding why the world wasn't rallying around him.
He moved on to Bill Ayers.  He moved on to Michelle Obama and the out-of-context "proud of my country for the first time" comment.   
Red-faced and spitting bile during  tirades, he couldn't comprehend why even his good friends Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove and John McCain, each on separate occasions told him to essentially give it a rest.  
What's also beyond Sean's comprehension is why Barack Obama hasn't taken him up on an invitation to appear on his show. 
Sean deserves recognition for such sincere lunacy.  

Just watched Congresswoman Heather Wilson on MSNBC state that 70% of Californians want off-shore drilling.  David Shuster asked where she got that-- she said she'd have to get back to him on it.
Has anyone heard this said before? 
If it's not true, she really should be called out on it.  

According to most reputable sources, including the WHO, it's estimated that more Iraqis have been killed during the last 5 years than during the entire 35-year reign of Saddam Hussein.  (only the conservatively calculated Iraq Body count death toll credits the occupation with a lower annual death rate.) 
This is only one of the sobering statistics published in a March 2008 article in the Guardian. 

Here's the link