I am The Surge (and so can you)! Wow that ad is lame.

http://pufferfish.typepad.com/

I know Obama disarmed the Democratic 527 groups, but I don't think the campaign is capable of taking on these clowns and McCain at the same time.

Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. I am not talking about a responsive ad that appears twice. I am talking about a Keating5 ad. I am talking about a Cindy Hensley ad. I am talking about going after the McCain 527 assholes tooth and tong. I am talking about telling the God's truth about John McCain. Enough pussyfooting around.

I've got a Surge.

This is EXCELLENT NEWS for the SURGE!!!

Yeah, taking down our 527 groups was suicidally high-minded of Obama. You'd think the Kerry campaign had taught us that when you take the high road, you wind up going off a cliff.

Although Lieberman and Graham left when ethics violation questions came up, It should be noted:

Sens. Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham both hold chairs for the McCain camp as well as positions on the board of advisers of Vets for Freedom, an advocacy group that supports the Iraq war.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/23/lieberman-graham-apparent_n_103313.html

I'd appreciate it if someone could explain something to me. At this point, what does the term "Swift-Boat" mean. It seems to me that it has been expanded to include all negative campaign ads. I do not associate the content of this ad with the type of attack that Swift Boat Veterans for truth made in 2004. The Swift Boat ads were not unusual because they were nasty, vitriolic, and unfair, but rather because they used counter-factual evidence to sow seeds of doubt over one of John Kerry's strengths--his war record.

This ad is disgusting, but is there anything untrue in the ad?

I think we broaden the definition of the word "Swift-Boat" at our own peril. If we call all character attacks from the right "Swift-Boating" the word will have less meaning when actual attacks like those from 2004 inevitably occur.

Also, why aren't the Dems just hammering McCain, Bush and the GOP for all of the disastrous aspects of the Iraq War: dishonest use of intelligence, lack of planning, lack of accountability, cronyism, the billions that have been spent, the bogus promises that war would pay for itself, billions and billions gone missing, and by the way , John McCain and George Bush, where the fuck is Osama bin Laden? That in itself should be a focus of an ad. This guy murdered 3,000 Americans and the GOP can't bring him to justice - what's up with that?!

Vets for Freedom: Let's get SURGED!

Barack needs to hit McCain/Bush hard on opposition to the Webb GI Bill.

Webb in particular has been outspoken about the tactic of politicizing the troops for cheap partisan points.

Whatever happened to the Pentagon policy putting partisan politics off limits for active-duty military?

Maybe these guys left the service to go to college ...

Found this. Could be useful:

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/08/25/2008-08-25_vietnam_vets_stirring_up_a_mccain_mutiny.html

Obama saves up his ammo and waits to use it. He sat on the Gramm quotes until the most opportune time. If he would have raised a stink back when he said it, it would have lost it's effect to use now.

I'm hoping this is the case regarding other statements made by McCain and Surrogates especially the Sunni/Shia mix-up that caused Lieberman to whisper in his ear.

I think the correct response to this is an ad giving the gruesome details about McCain's "support" for the troops. All the main pro-vets/troops groups' marks for McCain are 30% or lower, Obama hits 80% or more. McCain opposed the G.I. bill.

I do not think specifically mentioning the 6-to-1 troop donation ratio is necessarily a good pick, it seems a bit tacky--even though it actually gives the best overall picture of how those guys feel.

What else?

Chet Edwards had a good start. Check it:

http://www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6522

Good link to all of McCain's horrible votes AGAINST veteran's issues:

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/9559

The Obama campaign needs to forcefully link McCain's embrace of all these swift-boat style attacks to their meme of him being a continuation of Bush politics.

Obama - Biden 2008
"Hope over Fear"

The good news is that the media doens't seem to be allowing themselves to be used like they did during 2004.

I haven't seen much coverage of these attacks on the news. Yet.

The surge would not have been nearly as effective, or possibly effective at all, without the Sunni awakening. It would not have mattered very much how many additional troops were sent to the Anbar province without the support of the local population in pointing out where the IEDS or Al Qaeda operatives were located. I read somewhere (you may take that with however many grains of salt you wish) that this cooperation was fueled by briefcases full of hundred dollar bills. If the previous sentence is true, that means that we bribed, the Sunni sheiks in the Anbar province to provide intelligence on our common enemy (Al Qaeda).

The fact that John McCain was unaware of the correct timeline of the Sunni awakening vis-à-vis the surge demonstrates how out of touch he is with his signature issue. The fact that Katie Couric and the CBS news covered for him by editing out his incorrect answer, and substituting another answer shows exactly what we are up against.

Our military, bravely carries out each mission they are tasked with performing. But the primary reason for the success of this particular operation was intelligence provided by the Sunnis.

I was there too and I like to ask these veterans when did they leave, when will they hold a election, when will they help the Iraq people re-build, when will they re-gain full sovereignty,when will security continued to improve, when will the U.S. and Iraqi stop haggling for a security agreement, that end this year, if an agreement is not reached, U.S. forces would, in effect, be left with no legal standing to be in Iraq, are they part of immunity for U.S. forces accused of crimes in Iraq,which still has not reached an agreement. All these things have still not been worked out and was part of what they told us the "Surge" would do.
So who are these soldiers and when did they serve, and how is they are home making a commerical.
The President's New Iraq Strategy Is Rooted
In Six Fundamental Elements" as follow:

Let the Iraqis lead;
Help Iraqis protect the population;
Isolate extremists;
Create space for political progress;
Diversify political and economic efforts; and
Situate the strategy in a regional approach.

Gen. David Petraeus Aug 21, 2008 | Updated: 6:09 p.m. ET Aug 21, 2008

As the general's counterinsurgency guidance puts it, under the rubric "Manage Expectations": "Avoid premature declarations of success." And another of his bon mots (the Iraq War is littered with them): "Enemies get a vote too." He is far too politic to refer to the commander in chief's May 1, 2003, declaration of "Mission accomplished." But Petraeus acknowledged that this policy of modesty in the face of success is very much informed by our premature victory ejaculations of previous years (before he took charge, of course). "The champagne bottle remains in the back of the refrigerator," he says. "When you've been in Iraq for as long as actually both of us have, coming up on four years, you're a little less prone to get too excited too quickly."

Petraeus is careful not to credit all the progress to the surge of U.S. troops in 2007. The sea change came last year from a series of movements now known as the Awakening, when Sunnis, organizing around traditional tribal leaders, decided to turn on Al Qaeda as "an organization that embraces an extremist ideology, employs indiscriminate violence, and practices oppressive social customs," in the general's words. One of those customs was a ban on smoking. "That was the turning point when they cut the fingers off the first person who was smoking," he jokes. "Can you imagine an Anbar sheik being told he can't smoke?" So would the Sunni Awakening have succeeded without the surge? Possibly, he concedes, but the surge came at that time and helped empower Sunni leaders, paying their fighters and backing them up on the streets. This is where Seneca the Younger comes in: "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/154587/page/1
SO I ASK AGAIN WHO ARE THESE SOLIDER? AND WHEN WAS THEY LAST THERE?

At a mere 10 billion a month, you can surge, too.
Call now, our operators are waiting. Come be a part of our al quaeda ass kickin team.

Just Surge and everything will be alright!

Can someone please explain to me how a resolution to acknowledge the surge was a "success" helps the troops still in Iraq? Now if the resolution is to bring the troops home that something worth calling for. This idiotic ploy to play politics with the troops is ridiculous.

Petraeus Disagrees With McCain, Says Success In Iraq Was Possible Without The Surge!

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/25/petraeus-mccain-victory/

What surge are they talking about?The one where we`re paying the insurgents off? Sure it worked.Graft is a wonderful thing.