Not good enough.

It's time for a major ad buy on "Social Security is a disgrace" commercial, with the "call Senator McCain and ask him why he hates old people who don't have the luxury of living off his rich wife's family fortune..." command at the end of the commercial.

Damn right, bring out the BIG GUNS and fire back, even better go on the attack. Time and time again the Obama campaign is responding to tripe like this. Hit hard, hit harder!!

The candidate losing the election always has to go negative. Sen. Clinton did the same thing in the Dem Primary as have basically every candidate running in second place.

Obama can't hit back hard because he is supposed to be "new politics" and above it all. There is nothing the McCain Camp would love more than to get into a mudslinging battle with Obama. It's like that old saying goes - Don't argue with an idiot because they'll bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Obama just needs to stop allowing McCain and Co from re framing the Iraq issue. It's not about the surge working or not it's about not being there in the first place. Did the surge bring back the 4000+ young Americans killed, did it heal the tens of thousands of American soldiers injured (to varying degrees), or bring back to life the the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi's or heal the hundreds of thousands injured Iraqi citizens or refund the trillions of dollars spent on the war that could have went to much better use at home. That is the only way the surge could work for a war that should have never been fought.

The WO!rld TO!ur's put McBush in real pickle. From Iran to Pakistan to Iraq to Afghanistan, he's got em appeasing like chickenhawks with their heads cut off.

Sarkozy's mouthpiece Le Figaro's even caught on, preparing the ground for The Visit?

Bush's about-face on Iran
http://www.truthout.org/article/george-w-bushs-about-face-iran

Of course it was misleading and uncivil . . . It was put out by a Republican.

Hate to say it, but this response reminds me a lot of the Clinton campaign and its "whatever happened to the politics of hope" response we heard so often during the primaries.

Count me among those who find this response lame.

Personally, I'd hit McCain on his bullshit Iraq stroll every time he's stupid enough to utter the word "Iraq."

Not much content. Doesn't really specifically address anything in the ad. Maybe they thought they didn't need to.

A statement isn't enough but I have noticed that in this election so far when the Repubs put out an attack ad, then the next day or the day after that the Obama campaign responds with a counterattack ad.

They have had 2 counterattack ads both which have been quite good: 1st is the one which shows McCain hugging Bush and that he has voted with Bush 95% of the time. The 2nd is the radio attack which talks about McCain, McSame as Bush.

Look to see a biting counterattack ad by the Obama campaign soon.

A statement isn't enough but I have noticed that in this election so far when the Repubs put out an attack ad, then the next day or the day after that the Obama campaign responds with a counterattack ad.

They have had 2 counterattack ads both which have been quite good: 1st is the one which shows McCain hugging Bush and that he has voted with Bush 95% of the time. The 2nd is the radio attack which talks about McCain, McSame as Bush.

Look to see a biting counterattack ad by the Obama campaign soon.

This is BS. It's almost like, "Are you trying to lose, Senator?" He better put out a good counter-ad. No weak tea.

Can't wait for the Obama attack ads which will use "social security is a disgrace" and America is a "nation of whiners" and we are in a "mental recession".

I actually don't think that that McCain attack ad is that good. It definitely could have been far worse. I actually think that it is a little wimpy.

Did anybody read the Ryan Lizza piece about Obama in the New Yorker?

If you had than you would know that Obama can be RUTHLESS when he needs to be.

Obama is no Obambi. Obama will bring a gun to a knife fight. Gloves are coming off...

Richard Wolf on Countdown gets it. The McCain ad will be out of date in a few hours

What a pretty little statement by the Obama camp... as in Day Camp. And all the while the Republican swarm of thugs and villains prepares to continue the assualt virtually unassailed by their "honorable" opponents.

Obama was quoted not too long ago that he didn't think one should bring a knife to a gunfight. If this is what he's talking about then he's full of it. I was looking for them to unload a couple of clips and bust a cap up the Republican's asses but alas it was not to be. This pansy ass "statement" does nothing to counter the lies of the Republican ad. It's flowery prose will be utterly lost on the public and of course lost on the brain dead corporate media.

The only effective response would be hellfire and brimstone, a snarling retort that includes the word: "LIES!" and that characterizes this bullshit as exactly what it is. It's known as fighting back. But no, we have a nice tea party defense of Obama's sullied "characta" as the genteel Scarlett O'Hara and friends might say.

It is difficult not to chuckle in mordant fashion as the Obama spokespeople unruffle their lace cuffs and sniff at the ungentlemanly conduct of the Republican swine. Perhaps they ae considering challenging the McCain camp to meet them on the field of honor one day? Meanwhile, McCain and his Republican filth reload every barrel they have with more sewage and infected bile for the next volly. Will these DC Democrats ever understand that when someone spits in your face, calls you a coward and dares you to fight back that it's time to kick his ever lovin ass six ways to Sunday and make him like it? Oy! Until they do that, we are doomed to lose.

How about this, go negative by expressing sympathy for McCain's in ability to control the Rove-Cheney wing of the Republican party.

I honestly believe that McCain is not all bad, and would have been a reasonably good President if elected in 2000. But the McCain of today just doesn't have the balls, back, or brains to retake his party from the Cheney-Rove crowd. If McCain is elected it's another 4 years of Cheney-Rove (even if both of those guys die, it's the people they have placed throughout the party.

So say that. Every time one of these ugly-false attack ads remind every American that the reason the ad is out is because McCain can't control the neo-cons; McCain can't make the neo-cons irrelavent!

My response from the Obama camp read like this:
"John McCain promised to run a campaign I take him at his word that he wants to do exactly that. Unfortunately, this ad X is another example that he can not control the Cheney-Rove wing of the Republican party."

Everytime one of these ads comes out, every American should think Cheney-Rove.

Why???
Because it's true!
Everytime we see this filth it is easy to connect it to Cheney-Rove because we all know that is the kind of people Cheney and Rove are. If John McCain is elected the Cheney-Rove wing of the party will be running the country. And we all know that is not a good thing.

Obama started the negative uncivil attacks when he lied about what McCain said about Iraq (100 years), so this is nothing but crocodile tears.

Actually, McSame didn't vote against the GI bill--he just didn't bother to vote (just in the interest of accuracy).

He was, however, vocally and publicly against it before it magically became the bill that he heroically got passed....

Why not a spoof campaign ad?

John McCain presents his new Social Security Plan:

Don't depend on a government handout!
Don't rely on a government pension!
My plan assures you a bontiful retirement.

Dump your wife and marry a young beautiful heiress.