HAVE YOU SEEN THE LATEST POLL!? BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING!
McCain is up by 5 points! Game Over Man! Game Over! We are going to get hosed man, we'red going to get hosed! The Sky is Falling! Dogs and Cats are sleeping together! Alligators will walk on their hind legs and eat small children and midgets! GAME OVER!
Unless Barack Obama does exactly what I say starting right now!
Unlike many others, I guess, I give Obama credit for saying what he said to the VFW. He could just as easily have said it to a friendly audience. He could have preached to the choir. But Obama apparently believes that you run to be president of all the United States, not just the ones you carried. One America, remember?
Are you surprised? You shouldn't be. It's who he is and always has been.
Once again, Obama has surprised me by doing something I had all but thought he would not do... just like he always seems to.
This time, with all the media frenzy fawning over BidenBayhKaine... Obama up and tossed them all a big curveball.
And again, in the end, it looks like a no-brainer.
Any reasonable measure of the net advantages vs. negatives of all potential candidates leaves one candidate standing far above the rest:
Nato Commander, Executive experience, Economics degree, past presidential election experience, a non-washington insider, former clinton-surrogate, attack dog willing to legitimately call McSame's BS over-use of his military experience and frothing hawkishness...
I have posed this question on nearly every blog know to the world wide web. I have come to feel as if I am asking for seeds to grow a hundred dollar bill tree in my back yard. Is it really that hard? Follow me--->
I'd like to keep the full court press on the Scheunemann Effect because I believe this information needs to come fast and furious with many, many ad buys to follow. I prepared the diary yesterday but was unable to post it due to rules & regs but will do so today in the spirit of getting the truth out until the media, the Obama Campaign, the 527's or all of these groups take notice.
I hate to belabour the point, but the renewed attacks of the GOP that use and will continue to use low-information voters' fears to their advantage is not a matter to be scoffed at - OR DEFENDED.
You have to turn the tables.
Make McCain's strength a weakness.
There's only one way to do that - only one individual whom has the credentials to be able to challenge the "war hero" - and that's the former Nato Supreme Commander who ran for president, has executive experience, a degree in economics, supports the change message by never yet having been a politician, and is not afraid to be the attack dog.
We all remember the Citizens for McCain endorsement list right? it was a list where variety of Democrats with experience in endorsing Republicans came together to endorse another Republican.
But a funny thing happened when I began to look for one of the people on that list. The person I decided to look for was Former State Representative Jim Gamache of Missouri. After all, I wanted to see what part of the state he represented in the Missouri State House or anything similar.
Alright I jump in. I have no idea who Barack Obama will select as his VP nominee, and quite frankly, I don't really care. Whomever he selects, Bayh, Clinton, whatever, I'm really unconcerned with that. I'm a supporter of the junior senator of Illinois for President. That other stuff is for the pundits.
However, I am a betting man. And I've got $100 on the table with my boys for my pick, the estimable Rep. Chet Edwards of Texas.
Here's my proposal. Since the Obama campaign has been reluctant to throw attacks at McCain, we in the blogosphere should organize videos (like JedReport's excellent ones), viral emails, and put pressure on liberal media outlets like radio and some TV personalities to hit McCain on various issues which will raise his negatives but aren't necessarily polite policy contrasts. Millions of Americans don't know basic things about John McCain which would harm him politically. This is the best way we can counter all the vicious smear emails and the dogwhistle politics coming from the GOP. And we don't have to outright lie, just bring up truths that aren't polite to talk about on Sunday pundit shows. Specifics after the break.
The latest Rolling Stone has an interesting if not depressing article by Matt Taibbi.
He postulates that both candidates have been bought and paid for, and that it may be we, the average American, stuck with the bill.
The truth is that the campaigns of both Barack Obama and John McCain are being inundated with cash from more or less exactly the same gorgons of the corporate scene. From Wall Street to the Big Oil powerhouses to the military-industrial complex, America's fat-cat business leaders know that the Animal House-style party of the last eight years that made almost all of them rich with bonuses, government contracts and bubble profits is about to come to an end, and someone is going to have to pay to clean up the mess.
So, the media keeps polling, and reporting on these polls, and pushing the line "Why isn't Obama further ahead?" as some sort of bizarre echo of the old "experience" argument. Meanwhile a full 72% of media coverage given to Obama is negative, compared to just 57% negative reporting on McCain.
This is despite the fact that there's literally no positive news coming out of the McCain campaign, and the only newsworthy things the presumptive Republican nominee does are along the lines of "How many of you are tired of four dollars a buck a guh a four dollars a gallon..." Meanwhile the negative Obama coverage is editorial in nature.
In short, the media is pushing a horse race, and this seems to be reflected in the polls. But is it really?
Dear General Clark. You analyze the available data free of ideological spin and share your conclusions freely with all of us. A well-informed electorate is necessary for good government.
As a Rhodes Scholar with a Masters in Economics, Politics and Philosophy from Oxford, first in your class at West Point, West Point teacher of Philosophy and Economics, military and foreign policy expert, responsible for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and their families, shouldering executive responsibility as NATO SACEUR, including negotiating with heads of state and overseeing several theaters, you have borne the burden of decision making at the highest levels and served with great integrity and distinction.
And with all this heady responsibility, General Clark, you humbly express respect for our Constitution, our democracy and for transparency.
The Obama camp should start responding to McCain's "Celebrity" ads with a "There He Goes Again" ... it would both conjure up Reagan (and hopefully appeal to independents and conservative Dems, and Reps. leaning Obama) and point out how lame McCain's celebrity ads, tire pressure campaigns, etc., are.
Short diary but to the point and I think it would be a powerful and very appropriate response to McCain's juvenile antics.
