David Corn

Fixed?

Maybe the old ways will work but in a poll GOPhers were asked would you like McCain or someone else?

42% said someone else.

The disunity is in the GOP camp - the reversal so Rovian.

So let them throw the kitchen sink. It isn't going to win them any votes.

Thanks!

"""(democrats) praise McCain's heroism, courage and service"""

oh he is a hero because he got shot down while he was dropping bombs on innocent civilians?

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

~ Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

Hmmmm disunity, eh? Celebrity? People don't know him?

the democrats would be fools to, as you say, "avoid the red meat".
but maybe they are fools regardless. after all, somebody did try to murder some of them (anthrax letters!) and yet none of them seem to be outraged.

Open Letter To Former US
Senator Tom Daschle Regarding
The FBI's Bogus Anthrax Inquiry:

http://tinyurl.com/6ox2fv
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what is up with this generation of democrats? they have not even tried to oppose bushco's phony "war on terror" (a war OF terror).
these democrats are as craven as these republicans are.

criminal politics - why the democratic convention is ultimately a sick joke:

http://tinyurl.com/6fpj67

When I see POW these days I always think Batman!

Pow - zonk - boom!

McCain and Robin 2008?

According to the latest BHO ad, Bill Ayers' actions are not relevant to the Obama campaign, because BHO was 4 years old when the terrorism was perpetrated -

"William Ayers, who was a founder of the 1960s and 1970s radical group the Weather Underground, told FOX News correspondent James Rosen in a candid 2004 interview that he still believed he was “on the side of justice” years after the group’s wave of attacks.

In the interview, conducted three years after the September 11 attacks, Ayers argued the U.S. government had carried out “many other acts of terror … even recently, that are comparable,” and claimed he and his bomb-planting comrades were “restrained” in their actions.

Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, served with Barack Obama on the board of the charitable Woods Fund of Chicago for three years and helped launch Obama’s political career in Illinois by hosting in his Hyde Park home an informal campaign event for the future state senator in 1995."

So, remind me, how old was BHO in 2004? Because his buddy was ON THE RECORD as being an unrepentent TERRORIST as recently as 2004.!

The truth will be told - no lawsuit will prevent it.

Remember, Barak Hussein Obama's DISDAIN for the U.S. Military HAS COST HIM THE ELECTION.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEMXaTktUfA

John McCain's Jekyll, Hyde Obama ads

DENVER - "Dangerously unprepared.''

That's what one of John McCain's campaign TV ads calls Democratic rival Barack Obama.

"Job well done.''

That's what McCain says of Obama in a congratulatory convention-closing night ad, shown above, that the Republican is airing about his Democratic rival at nomination here in Denver. It's airing in several key states.

It's enough to make a voter's head spin.

http://tinyurl.com/5ujuag

*****

Seems like McCain is going for the insane people vote?

Maybe this tactic will work?

In New Mexico, Obama appears to be pulling away. He is now leading 53% to 40%. Like Nevada and Colorado, the state has a large Latino population favorably disposed to Obama. If Obama can win the Kerry states plus Iowa (which looks increasingly like it is in the bag for him) plus New Mexico, he has 264 electoral votes. That means he needs to win only one state out of the set: Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Missouri, Colorado, and Nevada. McCain has to hold all six of these key swing states. (If Obama wins just Nevada, it becomes 269-269 and goes to the House. There will be a long posting about that scenario after the news of the conventions dies down.)

http://electoral-vote.com/

The Five Faces of Barack Obama

Black man. Healer. Novice. Radical. The future. He is different things to different people. But only one is his key to victory

http://tinyurl.com/5rp7zs

Interesting piece.

NOT EXACTLY!

Black LA Talk Radio Host Exposes Obama Lies

http://rense.com/general83/lah.htm

"Next, let's examine Obama's claim that his connection to Ayers and Dohrn is "tenuous" and "phony." Is it phony that Obama's political coming-out party in the mid-1990s was hosted by Ayers and Dohrn? What about the panel discussions in which Ayers and Obama both took part—that were organized by Michelle Obama? Tenuous? I suppose the goodbye party for prominent Israel basher and Arafat apologist Rashid Khalidi, attended by Obama, Ayers and Dohrn, is also unworthy of discussion. That Khalidi himself hosted a fundraiser for Obama's first Congressional campaign must be completely irrelevant, too."

"The funds Obama and Ayers helped control at the Woods Foundation funneled thousands of dollars into both Khalidi's organization and the now-infamous Trinity United Church of Christ."

McCain: Iraq is ‘A Peaceful And Stable Country Now’

[...]

Q: Some members of the [Iraqi] government have made it clear in the last month or two that they might want to withdraw before complete stability, before totally secure borders, before some of the completeness of victory as you described. Is there any change, do you think there is some wiggle room there because what you described with Petraeus was an end point that was rather complete — a peaceful, stable country.

MCCAIN: Its a peaceful and stable country now.

http://tinyurl.com/5hhjqq

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Wow.

"Would Obama be friendly with someone who actually bombed abortion clinics and defends that conduct? Not likely. But he is friendly with William Ayers, a leader of the radical Weather Underground, which in the 1970s carried out numerous bombings, including one inside the U.S. Capitol. "

ThinkProgress spoke with Reps. Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Robert Wexler (D-FL) at the Democratic National Convention today, and asked them their response to McCain’s assertion. Wexler was incredulous, declaring, “He’s just dead wrong”:

WEXLER: Sen McCain’s judgment unfortunately has become so mistaken on so many things, and this is yet another example of his apparently not understanding the facts on the ground whatsoever. There still is a totally unacceptable level of killing in Iraq. There has been in effect ethnic cleansing in Iraq where religious groups are totally separated from one another. How he can call Iraq — what did you say he called it?

TP: A peaceful and stable country.

WEXLER: It is the furthest thing from a peaceful and stable country. And I guess if in fact he’s right then why do we have 150,000 troops there? We ought to bring them all home as quickly as possible even under his logic. He’s just dead wrong.

Ellison agreed, calling McCain’s assessment “ridiculous.” He noted that “the people of Iraq probably would not agree with that”:

ELLISON: I’d say the people of Iraq probably would not agree with that. Besides the ongoing warfare, death, destruction, people dying every single day…there still is no system of clean sewage, water, electricity. People are still living in dire circumstances. People are still suffering every day. … That’s ridiculous. It just goes to prove that this guy does not get it.

(Thinkprogress)

"Obama and Ayers voted to give $75,000 to Rashid Khalidi, a Yasser Arafat protege in the PLO, during their tenure with the Woods Foundation. "

"One year before McCain achieved freedom, Ayers participated in a bombing of the Pentaton. Of that day, Ayers wrote:

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them."

"Barack Obama will cut taxes for over 95% of American families (even though more than half of American think he'll raise their taxes)"

http://alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/

A bit general but informational just the same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI

"DENVER — Former president Jimmy Carter called Republican presidential candidate John McCain a "distinguished Naval officer," but said the Arizona senator has been "milking every possible drop of advantage" from his time served as a prisoner of war in Vietnam."

Go Dems!!! Make it all Pelosi+Kerry+Carter all the time!!!!

Wow, I'd hate to be running against Barack.

Welcome to the general election.

Never underestimate Republican's ability to smear their opponents. It isn't how you play the game, it's whether you win or lose.

Awesome night. Awesome speech, Awesome convention.

Get ready for the mud... get ready for the slime... That's ALL they've got...

We've got nothing to fear but fear itself...

It might work for them, but what a pyrrhic victory if McCain wins the White House, faces a Democratic Congress, and everyone knows it was all on the basis of character assassination...

Sometimes an alcoholic has to hit rock bottom before they can make a change... That's what a McCain victory will ultimately be recorded as...

We'll all feel like we're in that box in Vietnam...

It's interesting that whatever positives Sen. McCain has going for him are obliterated by the negatives of the folks he associates with these days. Sen. Obama was able to level Phil Gramm and take the McCain campaign down a few notches without directly attacking Sen. McCain. And others in the Obama campaign should also point out that Gramm, while a senator, proudly led the charge for deregulation that made possible both Enron's rape of the California electricity markets and much of the "securities" market fraud that enabled the subprime meltdown. Attack the Bush-Cheney-Rove-Rumsfeld regime over and over and over; tie McCain to virtually all of the policies of that regime; and attack the neocon advisers who are part and parcel of the McCain campaign. All of that can be done without attacking Sen. McCain's motives. And then ask the voters, "Why has he surrounded himself with these people?"