McCain is proud of the way they have run their campaign so far. Just sayin'....

I'm not sure what you mean by that last sentence - "how things turned out"

I'm not encouraged by this. Hillary beat him in big primary after big primary in March and April despite being accused of taking the "low road."

This is Dukakis redux.

This is awesome.

Out of curiosity, Greg, what's the "last time" you're referring to at the end of your article?

I don't know what you're referring to, Greg, with the "last time".

In any event, contrary to conventional wisdom about these attacks, I think they've given Obama a huge gift.

He can say what he said today, at every campaign stop. "I"m talking about the issues that affect your life, while my opponent is talking about Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Is that what you want?"

Greg: I disagree with your comparision with the Hillary Kitchen and Sink. Not that I didn't think she was playing nasty, but it's all together a different ball game. We're just warming up.

I'm so glad, Obama camp is taking this head on.

The difference between this race and the primary is that Hillary is a far better campaigner. If you recall she was being beaten like a drum by Obama until she retooled her campaign. Sadly for Clinton she didn't catch on to just how good Obama is until it was too late. I don't think the McCain crowd has the same ability to learn. They certainly don't have the same enthusiastic base.

I watched the tape of Rick Davis on the Mitchell show. He reminded me of a low rent Howard Wolfson. If you will recall one of Hillary's first moves was to take Wolfson off the air or at least calm him down. I think that McCain would do well to shut Davis up in the same way and for the same reason. The guy has no smooth.

All this negative GOP campaigning is aimed at White Men. In recent polls White men have been breaking McCain. Team Obama is going to have to do more than the Low Road Express to woo them back.

Or does Team Obama think they can win without White men. That was more that argument in the primaries. We don't need your supporters(they're racist/rednecks anyone), we'll win without them.

"22% say obama is attack mccain unfairly."

Obama's attacking McCain?

My vote is on jiu-jitsu. The media is not happy with this attack. Did you see Ron Brownstein on MSNBC after the Rick Davis interview? He was very, very tough on McCain and said people should be asking them more specifically why they chose Spears and Hilton instead of Cruise and Springsteen, who are arguably much bigger celebrities -- why did they go with the young, white blond celebrity? And if I recall, his wife actually works for McCain.

Hillary was a far better campaigner than McCain is and also Hillary at least had the Clinton economic cache to trade on with her attacks on who would be better for the economy. McCain's got nothing on that front.

The biggest thing McCain had going for him was that he was a different kind of Republican but he's pissed all over that in the last few weeks. He's no better than Karl Rove.

I like it but ugh, that background's gotta go.

The Obama camp needs to dig up the quotes from McCain from his 2000 South Carolina loss when he attacked the gutter campaign Bush and Rove ran against him, and then again when he defended John Kerry against the Bush and Rove gutter smears in 2004. Then point out how not only is he doing exactly what he spoke out against then, but he also hired a lot of the same people who ran both of those Bush campaigns.

That site is hard on the eyes though. hopefully there will be a lot more content as well.

That CNN poll is delicious. Rick Davis and his bunch of idiots are succeeding in tarnishing their candidate's brand just before the Olympic political-news blackout which will make it very hard for them to recover. Nice work fellas!

To the chicken littles out there (not so much in evidence in this thread, where we just have the trolls), look. I have substantive beefs with Obama. I'm disappointed that we have yet another centrist candidate who is willing to sell out on important issues. But as to doubting his political acumen and his team's? That's just dumb. Look, there's a reason why this guy came out of nowhere at warp speed and went from being just another freshman Senator to the presumptive nominee. The reason is that he's damn good, and so are his people. They know what they're doing, so relax and enjoy the show.

As far as why the McCain camp picked Britney and Paris, I really don't think it's some "omg brown guy's comin' after your women!" dog whistle. I think it's because Britney and Paris are both recently huge celebs who are past their prime and whose fame was perceived as undeserved. Basically, they're people whose celebrity had an equally formidable backlash. The reason they didn't compare Obama to say, Johnny Depp, is because people actually consider Depp talented and don't mind constant media coverage of him the same way they mind Britney or Paris news.

Actually on second thought, I don't like the website. It's a bit childish itself and too overt. It would have been better to keep banging the "low road" drum in the media and though surrogates rather than making such a big play with the website. Also the media will stop criticizing McCain's low road smears because they don't want to feed into the Obama attack or end up on the website.

Obama overplayed his hand with that site. It went from being a press talking points to an Obama Attack, and it was much more effective as the former.

Funny I didn't see Bush's name anywhere.

I hope Plouffe got Axelrod's memo that when voters go to the polls in November George Bush and John McCain will appear on the ballot

I thought today that linking McCain to 2000 SC is brilliant. He suffered it then and is glad to enlist it now. Cynical?

So it's a coincidence they picked two celebrities famous for not wearing panties and a sex tape. No there's more to this message than the "vapid" one.