"I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.

Is he having trouble with the power button or what?

He thinks he's being cute/endearing with this internet/computer inability. Also this business of taking weekends off will reflect poorly against him if he keeps it up once the convention is over in late August.

Gramm is more than a surrogate he is McCain's economic adviser - nice try Carly. Wesley Clark has no role in Obama's campaign and the GOP were all over his remarks and attacking Obama with them. Was that asked by the MTP host?

My friends,

Senator Obama thinks that he is so cool with he Goo Goo Googley eyes, and his email exchanges with Scarlett Johansson. Well, I want to prove to you that I am just as hip as Mr. Smarty Pants Obama. I am posting this to prove that I have mastered the ability of posting on the inter connect ah ah ah network stuff. Now that I have mastered that; does anyone of you know where I can get the email address of Veronica Lake? She's a looker, with great looking Gams.

Got to go now; Matlock is on.

Senator John McCain

Dammit, I am listening to cnn, while I am surfing the internets and they are pathetic. Breaking politica news, in case you didn't hear it, Animal lovers favor mcbush and super models favor obama. They had their bald economic guru and a wanna be super model talking about how drilling would somehow make a f*cking difference. This was on the tabloid program "this week in politics." WTF is up with our gd country? It really is absurd.

Ok, last one on this stupid show, but it's pissing me the f*ck off. Now they are praising the clintons again and that they are the most powerful political force in the country and that she has the most power in the senate. These bozos obviously have no clue about politics.

Kerry received more votes than any other dem presidential nominee in history. Holy cow. The most votes . . . . . but he lost. And how much power did he have in the senate after getting all those votes. I am sure that he was the new leader of the dems, right. He was able to weild that power all of the place and was a force to reckon with, right. Uh, nope. Clinton will go to the back bench and do nothing in the senate, like she did nothing before she ran for president. Ridiculous.

Folks, look at the daily tracking polls. Tie in Rasmussen. Daily drop in Gallup since Obama regained a 6pt lead a few days ago. The McCain campaign's mastery of the media is working. Of course, they only have to do half the job because the media will pony up without even having to be pressured.

The Obama campaign has to pick it up...big time. People still believe Al Gore is a big liar. They still believe Kerry is a master flip-flopper who lied about his service record. The shit sticks...and it's starting to stick to Obama - he's an elitist, typical politician who will say anything to get elected. Doesn't matter if it's true - that's becoming the conventional wisdom.

Obama needs to be out there every day hammering away about why drilling in protected areas isn't going to do a damn thing - but he also needs to present an alternative...and talk about it - ALL THE TIME. Gas prices will be the wedge issue of this election. He needs to better explain his FISA vote and how he'll work extra hard as president to protect our privacy and consitutional rights. He needs to emphasize over and over again that one of his most important goals as president will be to get out of Iraq - and be as careful getting out as we were getting in. Talk over and over again about how the Iraqis themselves are asking for a timeline. And he and his surrogates need to jump on every gaffe McCain makes - and they need to make everybody aware of the numerous and egregious flip-flops McCain has made himself.

Example - Clark talked about McCain's military service not being an automatic qualification for being president. It's a legitimate and valid argument. McCain's campaign, I read somewhere, put out 16 press releases about this. His surrogates were all over the place talking about. The media is STILL talking about.

Phil Gramm - in speaking about priority #1 for most voters - calls everybody a bunch of whiners. Obama talks about it for one day. His campaign puts out, at most, 2 press releases. The media talks about it halfheartedly for about a day and a half. It's already out of the news. Gramm is McCain's top economic advisor and he basically told millions of Americans that their economic concerns are all in their heads. But Obama realizes no gain from that and, in fact, starts dropping in the polls???? It's the campaign's own fault - they let it go by, they didn't work the refs.

We're running out of time. The CW is settling in. If Obama is seen as "just another politician", he loses. It's that simple. But he can't wait for the media to come to their senses - they won't. He needs to go on offense. This isn't the primary - the majority of voters in the GE don't know what the hell is going on. To them, drilling in protected areas makes perfect sense...the "gimmick" line alone won't work. They don't pay attention to the news....unless they see his name, position in the McCain campaign, and "whiner" qoute on the news every day for a week and a half, they won't even know who Phil Gramm is.

I'm starting to get very worried...and I don't care if it's early. Ke-rist, just wait until the 527s start blanketing the airwaves with the, "He's un-American and probably a terrorist", ads. Obama can't be neck-and-neck at this point - he needs to be ahead by at least 5-6 pts in every poll. The Rasmussen one has me spooked the most. It was consistently showing a 5-6 pt lead for Obama for weeks...and all of a sudden, it's a tie. Rasmussen weights for party ID and he has Dems ahead by about 9-10 - and Obama's tied with McCain?

He's no longer seen as "change" by many folks - he's seen as "same old shit". And when you're a black, young, freshman senator with an exotic background and a funny name running against a white, POW war hero widely seen as a moderate and maverick, you better represent change if you want to win. People want change in this election - but they have to believe that the guy they are voting for will bring change, believes in change. I think Obama - both because of his shift to the center and his inability to manipulate the media - is quickly becoming, "just another politician." For him, that's the kiss of death.

Love the section I pasted below: Have to agree with Iran in fact re: disturbed state of mind. Same type of disturbed state of mind being a REAL problem was his Friday interview in Pittsburgh regarding his POW story of naming his squadron to the VC using the members of the STEELERS Defensive Line. Trouble is, in his best selling book made into a movie, this incident was re-created in a very poignant scene where he names the Green Bay PACKERS line. He has told this on other occasions correctly. If you watch the interview, it is obvious, at least to me, that this was not pandering but a major "senior moment" and should be worrisome to everyone. In fact, it should be MSM news due to such a huge error in his recollection capabilities. He does not have the acumen to be President.
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Iran statement:

McCain on Tuesday reacted to a report of rising U.S. cigarette exports to the Islamic Republic by saying it may be "a way of killing 'em."

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said: "McCain's crude remark on the indiscriminate killing of the Iranian nation not only testifies to his 'disturbed state of mind' , but also to his warmongering approach to foreign policy."

The New York Times should have asked him if McCain likes to "do it himself" alot.

Did you see this, it is actually funny! Poor Republicans!

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/13/governor-mark-sanford-rsc-goes-blank-trying-to-find-differences-between-mccain-and-bushs-economic-policies/

Per Daily KOS: I think this is a great point so I am sharing.

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Oh really?
Mr. McCain, who with his wife, Cindy, has an adopted daughter, said flatly that he opposed allowing gay couples to adopt. "I think that we've proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no, I don't believe in gay adoption," he said.

Do you think McCain came to this conclusion during his affair with Cindy, or after he left his wife and three children to marry her?

McCain will soon learn that crashing a computer is almost as easy (for him) as crashing an airplane.

There is some peculiar resistance in many older people to the computer. I tried many times years ago to show older guys in the office how to use Google (10 minute lesson, at the outside?) but they always had some vitally important coffee break coming up that meant we could do it later, i.e., never.

Poor McCain doesn't realize how foolish he looks claiming that he is "learning" to get on line. It's like say I have been learning how to turn on a light switch. He'd have done much better by keeping mum.

Maybe McCain can use "The Google": http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/google_launches_the_google

Another weekend off for Johnny?? What happens if the 3:00 am call comes in on a Saturday night? Is he going to wait until Monday?