Warm-up for tonight: Obama's 2004 convention speech (w/video and text)

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Thursday August 28, 2008 · 7:48 AM PDT

2008/08/28 · 07:48

Tonight will be a watershed moment in U.S. history. Let the GOP try and spin this as "Obama the celebrity". Let the pundits go on and on about his white problem, about his Clinton problem, about the fact he's running against a POW/Maverick/Saint. Tonight is bigger than all of them. Tonight we'll see history, and I have no doubt Obama will give a speech that will top the many, many excellent speeches we've seen so far this week.

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Thursday August 14, 2008 · 7:39 AM PDT

2008/08/14 · 07:39

I stumbled across this ad today and found it just smashing. It's obvious that if Obama can successfully attach McCain to the Bush sinking ship he'll win big. But the task isn't easy, since so many out there still believe McCain is some kind of maverick (I'm talking to you, traditional media). Showing the kisses and the hugs between McCain and Bush, while effective, just isn't enough. And while I think the Obama campaign has put out some really solid negative ads of late, this ad, by CartwrightDale, just nails it.

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Wednesday August 06, 2008 · 7:44 AM PDT

2008/08/06 · 07:44

Something nagged at me the first time I watched Obama's ad pushing back on the McCain "Original Maverick" spot. The bit where McCain boasts about how often he votes with Bush is from five years ago and on Fox. Why not use some of the more recent clips of McCain vehemently tying himself to W? Once he started running in earnest, McCain made sure everyone knew what a friend of 43 he really is. Let's hop over the fold for a brief look at the issue.

BTW, here's the ad in case anyone's missed it:
http://www.youtube.com/...

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Tuesday July 08, 2008 · 9:19 AM PDT

2008/07/08 · 09:19

Something just struck me. It was a rock. Actually, I'm wondering if I'm catching on to how Obama plans to win the presidency. Lately I've been worrying he's getting too Clintonian, too small bore in his approach, all but advocating for school uniforms or whatever foolishness Dick Morris was pushing in '96. If we were to look back a couple months, the concern was that Obama was focusing too much on soaring rhetoric, on huge rallies and a campaign built on inspiration. These were the days when Obama was a hopemongerer. Funny how now folks are complaining he's not doing enough of that sort of thing. What I think we're starting to see take shape is a melding of these two strategies that on their own could lose, but together could prove dominant.

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What is Obama's campaign

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What is Obama's campaign

A brilliant, groundbreaking landslide machine

53 votes

A lost, sputtering reincarnation of Mark Penn and Bob Shrum

2 votes

A dicey rope-a-dope

4 votes

ManBearPig

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How many fronts is Obama fighting? w/poll

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Monday July 07, 2008 · 9:29 AM PDT

2008/07/07 · 09:29

I'm not sure if this even rises to the level of a diary, but I've noticed something a little disturbing clicking around the Interwebs today. It seems that no matter where I go, be it here, or Openleft or FirstRead or the Times, The Page or even TPM, Obama is getting attacked. He's a flip-flopper and unprincipled on the left, while being raked as a tax-raising, abortion-loving, flip-flopper on the right. Turn on cable news and it's much of the same.

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What is the media narrative around Obama?

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What is the media narrative around Obama?

A potentially dangerous meme that could undermine his support

72 votes

A whole lot of nothing

17 votes

This year's summer shark attacks

21 votes

The last brilliant move by Zombie Jesse Helms

5 votes

Is Evan Bayh this year's Al Gore? w/poll

NHCt

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Wednesday June 25, 2008 · 11:28 AM PDT

2008/06/25 · 11:28

All along, Evan Bayh has been seen as a possible VP as a way to appease Hillary supporters. No one, outside of her own family and maybe Ed Rendell, was a bigger surrogate for her campaign. And as the party coalesced around Obama, it was easy to see Bayh's stock slipping. After all, he didn't exactly help Hillary romp in Indiana.

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Evan Bayh?

Great VP candidate

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Greatest VP candidate

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Lord slay me now

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How Obama wins on public finance

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Friday June 20, 2008 · 6:36 AM PDT

2008/06/20 · 06:36

This idea just hit me, so it might be a little scattered. But I was thinking about what Obama's best retort is for people carping about him opting out. It's not a detailed conversation about how campaign finance is broken, or even continuing to point out how no one will stop the GOP 527s from sliming him. Those are all fine and good. But the real winner for Obama on this issue isn't either of these -- it's us.

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Monday June 16, 2008 · 1:06 PM PDT

2008/06/16 · 13:06

To mark the death of Tony Schwartz, who created the "Daisy" ad, Halperin embeds what he says is the ad on thepage.time.com. Rather than the ad itself, you get a clumsy 2008 mash-up, with an overtly southern voice warning that Obama, Hillary or Edwards are all too weak, inexperienced and politically correct (!) to protect America, and would permit "a nuclear 9/11." I wonder how long before ole Halperin realizes his mistake. Here's the youtube of the ad in case it's gone quickly: http://www.youtube.com/...

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Honest mistake

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Freudian slip

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Obama needs to make an example of Fiorina

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Friday June 13, 2008 · 8:31 AM PDT

2008/06/13 · 08:31

That Carly Fiorina might not be the best choice for a high-profile McCain surrogate is not exactly news here. But as McCain continues his assault on Obama's choices to be his VP vetters, the campaign needs to go after Fiorina hard.

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Wednesday June 11, 2008 · 10:29 AM PDT

2008/06/11 · 10:29

It may sound unbelievable, but the Man of Yesteryear doesn't know how to use a computer. Check out this video I found on the Huffington Post today: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
You need to scroll down until you see the video. The whole things is pretty entertaining. And check who does his computing for him...

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Key for our president to know where the "on" switch is?

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Key for our president to know where the "on" switch is?

Hell yes

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Meh

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Not when you're running against William Jennnings Bryant

53 votes

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