It was good to see Schweitzer and other start to attack McCain, but it barely scratched the surface. I was hoping to see fundamental character attacks, but it is what it is.

Frustrating, isn't it? The entire Republican convention is going to be about how unprepared, scary, and irresponsible Obama is (they might as well call it the "He's Not Ready" convention), while the Democratic Convention is all about internal squabbles. The Dems have completely failed to define McCain. They just always end up playing defense instead of offense, and it pisses me off.

Aaaarrrgh!! Okay, I feel better now.

Barack needs to hit back on the "dangerously unprepared" nonsense within the next 12 hours.

The commercial that I envision:

John McCain was a POW and has many years experience in the senate, but John McCain wants to start a war with Iran. He lead the charge on Iraq though he cannot locate it on a map

--play "bomb bomb bomb Iran"--

John McCain: He learned the wrong lessons. Irresponsible leadership. Unstable and unfit for command.

Close with a pic of the GWB hug.

They've got a lot of primary money they have to spend before the RNC, or they'll lose it.

Bill Clinton needs to do one thing tonight: Make the case for why Obama is prepared to be CiC. I don't care if he spends the rest of the time talking about what he ate for breakfast. Since Hillary didn't specifically address her comments that Obama wasn't prepared, Bill needs to step in. As an ex-president, he'd carry more weight with this. Will he do it?

Just watched the ad. It's a good one. It's total bunk, but it's very effective. The Dems need to come up with a narrative that makes people seriously worried about McCain, or he may just pull this one off.

The Georgian attack on Russian soldiers was meant to provoke the response from Russia which occured. Georgia has paid millions to McCain people and causing this flair up was accomplished exactly what was intended. Shift the focus to foreign affairs and create a new enemy. Remember these people will stop at nothing to retain power. McCain would start a war to win an election.

For once, I'd like to see the Obama camp respond with a timely, forceful and effective rebuttal to this ad. That would surprise me.

It's not like they didn't know Mr. POW was going to hit them on national security.

Why is "Don't Forget to Say Death to America" in English if it's in Iran?

Re the NYT story on "falling short" in fundraising:

The MSM proves with each passing day that they simply WILL NOT have party unity - even if the party is unified. The "narrative" is now officially chiseled in stone. The Obama campaign has raised more money than any Democrat in history, and the NYT manages to find a way to interpret that as signs of Obama and Clinton divisiveness. It's like they inhabit a parallel reality.

If Obama pulls off a win in November, he will have done so while under attack not only by his opponent but by the entire MSM.

McCain FP ad must be countered with one calling McCain a warmonger whose only response to world events is "bomb bomb bomb" and who wants to restore the draft.

Now for a good laugh...Rudy Giuliani is criticizing Barak Obama for lack of experience.

BWAAAHAAAHAAA

Stop, Rudy, you're killing me.

I'm as suspicious of anything in the MSM as the next guy, but it seems like nearly every MSM story that comes out these days that's critical of Obama or his fortunes is dissected here and pronounced to be inaccurate or biased for some reason. It's like we're turning into the Republicans, with their fixation on the "liberal media."

"Obama Dangerously Unprepared To Deal With Iran"

And McCain is dangerously prepared to deal with Iran.

And why is Iran a threat? Maybe that question should be addressed. Why is Russia making noise? Maybe that question should be asked.

The Obama camp is sitting on footage to use at the opportune time. The numerous Sunni/Shia mix-ups that prove it wasn't a slip of the tongue but rather McCain doesn't have enough understanding of the situation. The "There will be more war my friends", the "Bomb Iran" sing-a-long, the draft possibility, the over-the-top language with Russia over Georgia, the Buchanan quote of "McCain will make Cheney look like Gandhi", numerous mentions of Czechoslovakia...

From the Department of Sometimes the MSM ain't entirely evil: Home page of CNN Headline: No way, no how, no McCain.

And CNN latest poll showed that more Repubs want a different candidate than Democrats. So maybe in their quest for ratings they'll actually stir up the pot with Barr and Ron Paul. Of course the Democrats have to drive this meme.

And their quest for rating will have them breaking away to cover Gustav, as well as pulling out Katrina coverage from the archives.

That's an interesting piece in the NYT about Obama's efforts to get Hillary's big donors on his side. They are pissed because they don't have the access they used to. Boo hoo. A new group of donors is taking their place, and still whupping McCain and the RNC in fundraising.

It is unfortunate, but not surprising that a group of self absorbed "Hillraisers" is willing to cut off their noses to spite their faces.

And Hillary was terrific last night. If her supporters are still whining, they are on their own.

Don't you hear the dogs? Can't you see the torches? Keep running! Keep running! And if you can't actually put your feet on the ground, SEND MONEY TODAY!!!

Somehow, some way, the message has to get out that the "dangerous" world that McCain is trying to scare us with is a direct result of the failed foreign policy of the Bush administration.

The policies that have created this unstable and dangerous world are the same that McCain has backed without equivocation.

Why should we expect anything different?

Obama lost a point overnight to fall 1 point behind McCain in Rasmussen's tracker. Obama was behind in Gallup's tracker yesterday by 2 points and I assume he'll still be behind today.

By the time Barack gets his speech bounce he'll just be back to where he was before picking Biden. Then the GOP gets its turn at bat. Not looking rosy for The One (a nickname Oprah gave Obama before McCain did).

Seems the MCC camp understands "economics" better than realized for they get the "ADs" played repeatedly for FREE accompanied by endless blathering by the MSM yapping talkative-air-time-to fill personalities who FAIL to actually report much of anything but great at regurgitationings, especially leaning TO McC...seems the nonsense allowed was how Obama was "the chosen one" and media "star" has been rather proven and provable false !!!

The McCain camp is constantly trying to invoke fear and doubt. It's very easy for people to subconsciencely adopt to this propaganda. Is there a way for the Obama camp to fight back at this method and get voters to focus on the strength of hope to overcome fear?

Hope= strength
Fear= weakness
Hope= Obama
Fear= McCain

Can it work?