Well, which one is it, McCain? You won't raise taxes or is everything on the table? You can't have it both ways...ah, who am I kidding, of course he can. He's the maverick.

i'm sure msm will tell me why these poll numbers are bad for obama and even though mccain was said to win fl.

Polls, schmolls. . .the Intrade chart to the right on this page is more useful than any of the information coming out of the polling outfits this Summer.

I think he should have said "The GOP is going to try and scare you by painting me as a wild eyed mandingo who will rape your daughters and blow up your office buildings" because thats a little more accurate.

Barack Obama told a Missouri crowd last night that Republicans will try to scare voters by reminding them that he "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.

The Republicans reply: "No shit, Sherlock."

I like the fact that Pennsylvania is leaning Obama for some time now. Ohio and Florida will be close all the way, but this confirms that the poll who give McCain 10 points ahead in Ohio was an outliar.

About the "doesn't look like the dollar bills" line,
let's be honest people, racism is the elephant in the room and it has to be tackled head on. Many of the attacks by the GOP (on Tennessee, for example) and the 527s, have an underline of racism. They will continue this line of attack, no matter the cost. Let's not shy away from it and deal with this openly. Maybe in a little more subtle way, but we can turn this around as part of the "same old politics" response.

when i first saw mccain attack ad yesterday i thought about that harold ford jr ad with the white woman.... those kind of ads are for certain group of people that they hope will catch ......

Explaining why drilling won't help is easy.

What is the price of a gallon of gas in Europe? $5.00 or so. In Indonesia? $4.80 yesterday. If you were a rationaloil company where wouldyou put that oil rig? North Atlantic by Europe, SE asia by INdonesia, China and India, or in Alask wher you have to ship 1/8th of the way around the world to a market wheregas is selling for less than a dollar and you pay 50 cents (actually more) per gallon in tax. (20% to alaska permanent fund, and Highway trust tax).

Duhhh, if oil companies wanted to drill in Alaska there are already proven wells by the North slope pipe line look at the 2002 EIS. They ionly want ANMR open to control the rights, they will nto produce oil from it - too costly. They want the Gulf open and are using ANWR as a proxy chip to pry open drilling in the gulf and off California.

One of the stupidest things we can do in this country is to scare illegal immigrants away from using free or lowcost healthcare...
Why? Because a terrifying number have TB and if it isn't treated properly, it can become the superbug variety. You do NOT want a million person pool of people infected with superbug-TB in this country. It is far cheaper to treat them quietly than to discourage them to come in so they either don't get treated at all, or use half-doses of the correct medicines.
Its a public health nightmare if we don't do it.

Anyone who looks like the guys on the bills is a gol-durned long-haired hippie . . .

Barack Obama told a Missouri crowd last night that Republicans will try to scare voters by reminding them that he "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills." Campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama was not referring to race: "What Barack Obama was talking about was that he didn't get here after spending decades in Washington."

This is a terrible explanation: Washington ($1) and Franklin ($100) both died before the District of Columbia became the official capital of the United States (1799 and 1790, respectively); Jefferson ($2) only spent four years there as Vice President in the Adams Administration before his election in 1804; Lincoln ($5) served one term in the House of Representatives (1847-49) before his election in 1860, passing the time in-between as an Illinois litigator; Hamilton ($10) was dead within four years of the District becoming the functional capital of the United States; Jackson ($20) served intermittently in the House and Senate, it is true, but the total of those years is less than ten (not to mention that part of that service preceded 1800, i.e., the year Congress first convened in Washington, D.C.); and Grant ($50) spent most of his pre-presidential life as a soldier in the field.

And if we’re going to look to the coins, the only historical figures remaining -– aside from Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea –- are Presidents F. Roosevelt (dime) and Kennedy (half-dollar). Apart from his stint as Secretary of the Navy (1913-20), Roosevelt spent most of his political life trying to wedge his way into New York State politics, eventually becoming Governor in 1928. Of all the figures Mr. Gibbs suggests Sen. Obama could have been referring to, only Kennedy -– with six years in the House and eight years in the Senate -– spent more than a decade in Washington before ascending to the presidency. (Even then, fourteen is less than twenty, by my count.)

Okay, so I clearly don't know how to use the tags. My bad.

Yep, Gibbs did flub this one. Some of those dudes on our bills weren't even in Washington for very long, so his statement doesn't even make much sense.

(I'm just attempting to post this again with the correct tags. Just ignore my kowtowing to an OCD impulse.)

Barack Obama told a Missouri crowd last night that Republicans will try to scare voters by reminding them that he "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills." Campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama was not referring to race: "What Barack Obama was talking about was that he didn't get here after spending decades in Washington."

This is a terrible explanation: Washington ($1) and Franklin ($100) both died before the District of Columbia became the official capital of the United States (1799 and 1790, respectively); Jefferson ($2) only spent four years there as Vice President in the Adams Administration before his election in 1804; Lincoln ($5) served one term in the House of Representatives (1847-49) before his election in 1860, passing the time in-between as an Illinois litigator; Hamilton ($10) was dead within four years of the District becoming the functional capital of the United States; Jackson ($20) served intermittently in the House and Senate, it is true, but the total of those years is less than ten (not to mention that part of that service preceded 1800, i.e., the year Congress first convened in Washington, D.C.); and Grant ($50) spent most of his pre-presidential life as a soldier in the field.

And if we’re going to look to the coins, the only historical figures remaining -– aside from Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea –- are Presidents F. Roosevelt (dime) and Kennedy (half-dollar). Apart from his stint as Secretary of the Navy (1913-20), Roosevelt spent most of his political life trying to wedge his way into New York State politics, eventually becoming Governor in 1928. Of all the figures Mr. Gibbs suggests Sen. Obama could have been referring to, only Kennedy -– with six years in the House and eight years in the Senate -– spent more than a decade in Washington before ascending to the presidency. (Even then, fourteen is less than twenty, by my count.)