Lieberman and McLame on one ticket?

O please please please, LIttle Baby Jesus - just one more little thing - show the Democrats some more love and have McLame pick Droopy, the 732 yearl old garden gnome as his running mate!!!!!!

The real inside story I'd like to know about Mark Penn is how he got hired.  Was it Hillary?  Bill?  Both of them?

Slim chance, I know, but not quite zero in this age of kiss-and-tell book.

And we're supposed to donate money to Hillary to help her pay off the debt with that fat fuck?

LOL

Lindsey Graham is one of the so-called "Gang of 10" (admittedly he might have thought it referred to something else when he signed on) whose energy compromise McCain refuses to back. That's gotta smart something fierce.

So does Hillary get certain credit from Obama supporters from not going completely into the gutter? It is interesting that while her claims were "ready on day one" she couldn't seem to make any key decisions, and couldn't keep her campaign disciplined. I mean Bill made the final call to run the 3AM ad?

Regardless if Sen. Clinton showed restraint, you know McCain isn't going to. Hopefully the Obama camp is prepared for that attack. It seems the groundwork is already being laid, and will probably go full force come September and going all the way to November. We should have a pool here on which date the McCain Camp will play the Rev. Wright card.

While I mentioned yesterday I think both Presidential candidates should avoid making any comments and deferring to the White House, I understand that Obama couldn't do that unless McCain did. I know it's completely crummy to play politics with such an international issue, but McCain could have also nailed Obama if McCain deferred to the President, and they pointed out Obama is being "presumptuous" again by releasing a statement. Of course if Obama deferred to the official word form the White House, McCain would have jumped on that as well saying "What a chicken".

What is incredibly embarrassing is George Bush oogling beach volleyball players in Beijing - Showing complete disregard for a solid ally. He should at least come back Stateside and look like he is trying to do something.

I wonder if McCain will hit Obama for his remaining on vacation given the situation. Of course Obama could easily defend himself saying he isn't President yet. Besides if McCain attacks Obama, he surely would have to attack Bush as well - and he's not sure if he wants to do that because while he needs to appeal to the independents, he also needs the GOP base.

As one wise poster mentioned in as response yesterday, America is basically leaderless for the next six months. Bush is probably setting a record for level of "lameduckness" these days, and given his staying in China, he doesn't seem to care in the least. The Georgian President shouldn't be speaking to Presidential candidates, he should be speaking to the President. I don't know if Bush would even have the juice to pull it off, but he should have called in representatives for both McCain and Obama and called on them to stop commenting on international issues such as the fighting in South Ossetia.

Lieberman will only be the VP pick if McCain wants to lose with a friend rather than an enemy. I could see most up and comers not wanting to attack themselves to McCain/Bush ticket, however along with Lieberman, Mitt Romney will have no qualms in doing so and he's probably a better choice given he could put certain states in play, if not swing them for McCain. Portman is another who would run with McCain, though I'm not familiar with him enough to know if he's be a willing attack dog. Those up-and-comers (Pawlenty, Jindal, Palin etc.) might not want to play such a prominent role in a gutter negative campaign, especially when polling down 5 points, given the political climate.

It won't even take that long! I bet they're off and running with one of Penn's strategies no later than tomorrow!

Never fear
Mentum's near

Will begin novena to St. Thomas More, patron of politicians

I'm wondering how these leaked memo's will play in the current GE campaign. Will it help solidify the meme in that "See, Hillary Clinton campaign was even questioning Obama's American-ness" or will it diminish the attack by outing the strategy as a paint-by-numbers smear campaign?

Also by McCain drawing attention to the preemptive defense to such a claim by by shouting that Obama played the race card on him, can McCain go that route without it being framed as McCain playing race as an issue. I mean if it's the race card to say "They're saying I have a funny name, that I don't look like the Presidents..." then wouldn't actually doing what he said you're doing be proof positive?

Of course it's likely a concerted effort whereby the talk radio scumbags will run on the foreign/race angle to whip up the dittohead lunatics into a lather, while the official campaign can keep above the fray. That way McCain can appeal to the independents, centrists and moderates who don't listen to wingnut radio, while the GOP base get's it's fill of race baiting hate mongering.

I think the "celebrity" ads is on the spectrum of Obama not being "one of us".

What Obama was really referring to when he was talking about the GOP are going to focus him not looking like the presidents on dollar bills, was that the GOP will try to paint Obama as "other" or foreign.

"voter fraud" are code words for systematically disenfranchising voters in heavily democratic precincts and counties. Trying to tie the energy crisis to this kind of bull**** is a typical of you low-life republicans who can only win by cheating.

The fact-check video is absolutely great. The Obama campaign ought to make a commercial like this.

Florida and Michigan were one of the earliest examples of how dishonest, two faced underhanded and fraudulent Oilbama can be, when he claimed in speeches that he stood for “voices being heard” and “every vote must count”, and then clamped his hand over the mouths of almost 3 million voters in Florida and Michigan because he didn’t like what those voices were saying, which was a loud “go home”.

Working class voters are not the socio-economic slice of the “white” vote that votes Republican. They are the least likely portion of white voters to do so, which is part of what made the constant slamming of this group so infuriating during the primaries. This was the slice of the white demographic most likely to vote for Hillary, and that was the reason they were being singled out for shaming and insults.

I think I can speak for millions of Hillary’s 18 millions supporters when I say that camp Oilbama stepped over a serious line when they tarred the Clintons as racists in the lead-up to the SC primary (and since). Those attacks were simply unforgivable.

The sad reality, of course, is that Oilbama has no commitments over issues. Issues are merely fodder to be used to grab what he seeks above all else: Victory. Now, every politician has to be focused on winning. But most politicians have some issues about which they genuinely care and are knowledgeable about. Oilbama doesn’t seem to hold any issues dear, except for voting for Dick Cheney's Big Oil Energy Bill so he could be in the deep pockets of Big Oil.

Nobama Never
McCain 08
Hillary 12

BillC,

Lucifer is the paragon of honesty next to you my slimy little friend. You lie like a rug.

The most interesting poll results might be the daqily patterns of the favorable-unfavorable ratios at Rasmussen. (They are now tied at 54-44--Mccain did have a slight edge), but the "very" favorable-unfavorable figure is more significant.

Obama is holding steady at 32-28, but as the media pays more attention to McCain---his very unfavorable figure is increasing. Those who feel strongly give him a ratio of 18-21----and there is a lot of room for that ratio to widen as people tak a closer look at him. The obama fatigue is real--but it also means his very unfavorables have less room to grow.

WSJ Market watch answers the question "Is John McCain ready to lead?"

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid={4914192B-12AF-4623-AB18-5EFE91204B04}&print=true&dist=printMidSection

I mean all of us visit grandma every decade or so without the wife and kids, right? After all, why would any grandma want to see her own great-grandchildren and her grandson’s wife? It’s just not done, right? There’s no family dysfunction going on here at all, nothing to see here folks. It’s all Perfectly Normal. I haven’t seen this reported in the MSM. His special press corps must be surfing or something.
Obama — escorted by Secret Service and accompanied by a few campaign staff and a pool of reporters and camera crews — arrived at about 4:10 p.m. yesterday and spent an hour with his 85-year-old maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who helped raise him. He was not accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and two daughters. Of course since Oilbama threw his Grandmother under the Bus saying she is a Racist who can blame them for not wanting to meet?

"...an actual campaign.

"I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values."

Kinda easy to take this out of context, plus it's in reference to Obama, plus it's in an unguarded internal memo. But the phrasing here is interesting to me, it seems to imply Penn also wouldn't think to imagine a time when America elected a president who isn't described using the pronoun "him"...

Best Oilbama Jokes-

Oilbama was in Germany , and he did this speech and 100,000 people showed up. There were so many Germans shouting and screaming that France surrendered just in case.

They really love Oilbama in Germany. He’s like a rock star over there. Impressive until you realize that David Hasselhoff is also like a rock star over there.

Signs Oilbama Is Overconfident.
Proposed bill to change Oklahoma to ‘Oklabama.’
Offered Bush 20 bucks for the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner.
Asked guy at Staples, ‘Which chair will work best in an oval-shaped office?’
Having head measured for Mount Rushmore.
Offered McCain a job in gift shop at Obama Presidential Library.

Of course, Oilbama’s supporters got him his usual birthday gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Oilbama’s people are trying to portray McCain as cranky, and McCain is trying to portray Obama as arrogant, you see. And when Obama was asked what he thought about being called arrogant, well, he said he was ‘above having to answer that question.

Oilbama on the news? He’s becoming a workout fanatic. He’s at the gym, like, twice a day, sometimes three times a day at the gym, yeah, according to his staff. Well, he has to stay in shape to do those flip-flops.

Oilbama back from his big European tour. Did you see him in Europe? People were cheering him, holding up signs, blowing him kisses. And that was just the American media covering the story.

Oilbama vioted for his buddy Dick Cheney's Big Oil Energy Bill because he is in the deep pockets of Big Oil and is a chickenshit.

"Reporters, blogers and netroots" are not going to determine the outcome of this election. If the Obama camp doesn't start hitting back soon and hard and get their message out to the general public things are going to get dicey. That said, I do think the debates will be extremely important and I'm hoping Obama exhibits some agressiveness there.

P.S. Dem Bill C. is an operative, here to disrupt. Best ignored.

I don't profess to being an expert on international affairs, but so many of the posters here are obviously not low information voters. Most of us (I assume) are more aware of some basic international matters than the average American is. I'm not sure how this will affect the campaign, but I would bet that most low information voters fall into 1 of 2 camps:

Camp 1: Commie-Haters: You know the type. They hate all things Russian, i.e. Vodka, Bears, the Kremlin, ah..circular furry hats.... So what they get is that Russian is once again up to it's old Commie tricks. We beat them once, let's beat them again.

Camp 2: War-Haters: They hate all wars, regardless of the circumstances. They are just as likely to protest "The War of the Roses" as they are to protest Vietnam, Iraq, etc. You know the type: "Give Peace A Chance".

I would hope that the average American is somewhere in the middle like myself. I don't hate Putin (or Russia for that matter), but any man for whom W can gaze into his eyes and "see his soul" should not be trusted. And let face it, Russia was once a world power, and the people who have had a taste of power and lost it, always seems to want it back. And while I'm no war protester, it seems to me that we are already in the midst of 2 wars, Afghanistan & Iraq and we are stretched thin as it is. Until we can at the least partially resolves one of those 2 wars, while it's good for the President to be as "tough" and firm as possible with Russia, I would hope that the next President or the current one, does not intend to star a 2nd (or would it be 3rd) Cold War by taking some type of "action" against Russia. It seems to me that of the 2 presidential contenders, one of them is more likely to be amenable(?) to starting some military action against Russia.

But I've never served in the military, so maybe I just don't understand as much as some

Thank you Brian. I think this will be effective, they should stay with it.

on a different topic, I'm tired of seeing more McCain ads than Obama ones right now during the Olympics.

... Lieberman's socially liberal positions on issues like abortion ...

Umm, I don't think telling women that are seeking emergency contraception after being raped that they if the first hospital they go to refuses to give it to them "In Connecticut, it shouldn't take more than a short ride to get to another hospital" is a liberal position on abortion. In fact, I would say (or at least hope) that it is a right-of-center position and out of the mainstream.

I just got a message from David Plouffe saying that Senator Obama is soon to announce his VP...I assume this will happen when he is back from his vacation...

Smart move to keep the focus Senator Obama on the news...Surpringly, it has not been mentioned yet...

I must give misguided Stroszek credit he is the first Obamabot to even attempt to explain why Oilbama voted for Dick Cheney's horrible Energy Bill. The attempt to justify it was pitiful but at least you tried.

Dem BillC is like McBushSame talking points: critical. and no substance...

What do you think of David's Plouff email, I expect the VP announcement next week.