Well, that took all of 15 minutes.

I love that the idiot can get away with always attacking "wasteful spending" yet he is a huge supporter of what is by far the #1 source of wasteful spending and our budget deficit, which is of course the war in Iraq. How is it that McCain gets away with attacking wasteful spending while he defends the worst of it?

I don't think this video really does the trick.

Even though McFeeble says we're better off than eight years ago, it's so qualified and dwells so much on what's troubling Americans that it can be read both ways.  Very effective fence-sitting.

It could be mined for the few short better off sound bites, but I think other angles of attack would be more effective right now.  I.e., it's not a bad response from BigO's team, but I wouldn't spend money producing and running an ad based on it.

God, it's painful to listen to him.

Obama needs to go on offense with McCain's own statements, rather than simply responding to McCain's ads. God knows he's said enough dumb shit to keep it up until the election.

I'll say it again...the McCain strategy over the past three weeks has been sharp.

This new tack is slick..very slick

While we're talking race-baiting, Dana Milbank and Paris Hilton, McCain's already shifted course

One step ahead of the game

why as a lifetime Democrat, am I not supporting Obama?
If I worked and served the people in the 13th District in Chicago, I would have known all of the players. And to win that district, would I have gamed the system to run unopposed? Tony Rezko would not have had a seat at my table. Either Obama is a fool and is blind to what should have been obvious, or someone like Tony is fine by Obama's standards. The guy is a
dirtball. And a dirtball would not be part of my circle, certainly not my inner circle. I would rather not be elected than associate with someone like
Rezko.

I would not choose Rev. Wright, Rev. Meeks, or Father Plager as my spiritual mentors, not for political reasons or any other reason. Again, he is either blind or an opportunist. Would I be hanging out with Mr. Ayers? Would you?
Would you refuse to be photographed with Gavin Newsom? There is a pattern with this guy - he manipulates; and for him the ends justify the means. He lacks character.

Getting not one bill passed in the first 6 years of his career in not inspiring. Having Emil Jones hand him the ball 26 times on the one-yard line
in order to make Obama a United States Senator does not cut it either. What deals he made, he did to benefit no one but himself. He never worked long enough in either Senate to help the people who elected him. Andy, I could
never imagine you taking credit for legislation someone else slaved over. Starting in his community organizing days he claimed sole responsibility for other people's accomplishments all for the purpose to boosting his career.

In terms of the campaign itself, witness his methods up close. During the primaries I was in 6 states, 2 of which had caucuses; it was not clean. El Paso was a joke with the Obama campaign stealing the caucus packets, locking supporters out - Intimidation 101, 102 and 103. Fair elections do not seem to be a priority in my birth state. No other machine exists from the days of Boss Tweed, but Chicago's. How many elected officials are in jail? They are
the joke of the nation. It is called the Chicago machine for good reason.

It was clear that this experience was not a fluke or isolated incidents, but coordinated, deliberate and arrogant. I got to see him and his organization for who he is and what it is - not inspiring, to say the least. Not something I would have, in business, endorsed in any way. In fact, I would most likely have reported them to the appropriate regulators.

Does it not bother you that a guy like Obama can serve a poor district and give away a paltry $1000 to charity? He only stepped up his giving when he decided to run for President and he knew his charitable giving would be made public.
How could anyone see that much misery and not try to personally do something about it?

Please, show me something this guy ever did that was not done in a calculated fashion to create and advance his own personal narrative?
Something selfless, perhaps, just because it was the right thing to do.

Every person who worked at the Law Review at Harvard with him, or in the latter part of his career, said the same thing: he was arrogant and
self-centered. One person laughed, saying Obama wanted to be King of the World, that he was always running for something, never staying in one place long enough to amass accomplishments or be held accountable.

Do you not you find it troublesome that he has hundreds of paid bloggers, posting vicious attacks not only about the Clintons but her supporters as well? The whole purpose was to cast him as the second coming, while trashing her and quashing other points of view.

At first I thought is was just some hyped up kids, and then a pattern emerged. He paid others to do his dirty work. The most egregious sexist
cracks were rampant, both on the Internet and the MSM. Yet, what did Howard and Obama say? Nothing. Obama promoted it, paid his bloggers to write it.
Never once did he try to stop it. Howard, after the damage was done finally commented on it, but barely. Wink,wink.

You know I consider myself a centrist. The right wing of the Republican Party scares me, but so does the left. Ideologues of either side should not have control simultaneously of the executive, legislative, and judicial arms of the government. Absolute power corrupts, be it on the left or the right. Ha, but you will say.. the courts. If you have the legislative branch, all will be fine. McCain voted Ginsberg in, he is not a stupid man and certainly not an Ideologue, and he took heat in the primaries for refusing to have a litmus test for judges. And need I remind you that Obama thought Roberts was an acceptable appointment until some more experienced hands in the Senate
told him that would not do?

Painting him as Bush 3 is a little annoying, and what's up with the MoveOn Baby Alex commercial? Give credit where credit is due. McCain went against his own party twice on immigration reform, on ethanol subsidies, and campaign finance reform. He started talking about Global warming 8 years ago. I don't agree with McCain on a number of topics, but I do believe he has principals and a backbone. He is not willing to just say anything to get elected.

I can't say the same for Obama who is turning out to be more like Bush than McCain; Obama is at least as arrogant as W, just more polished. Are you not ashamed, in these past weeks, of his reckless abandon of any pretense to a moral center on issues such as FISA, separation of church and state, gun control? And what he did to one of my heroes, Wes Clark? Insulting my
intelligence and my standards will not win me over.

But, in this conversation, you will say, McCain wants to be in Iraq for 100 years. No, he said that as in Japan, or Korea, we could have a presence. We have been in both of those countries for 60 years and not leaving any time soon, and the world is safer for it.

Next will be, McCain is not knowledgeable about the economy. While with Carly Fiorina, at a town meeting he turned the microphone over to Carly
when asked about the mortgage mess, painting her as the expert. Wow - he gave a woman a compliment, praising her knowledge, referring to her as the expert. How often have you praised Charles, or me, and everyone for that matter? Why? Because you are gracious and you know it reflects well on you.

Oilbama voted for Dick Cheney's Big Oil Energy Bill crafted in private with Oil Lobbyists. Bothe Hillary and McCain voted against it. It is the worst Energy Bill in History and the reason Gas is 4$ a gallon.

Now as he was the most Liberal voter in thye Senate during the couple of days he served there before he ran for President, he has Flip Flopped on Fisa, on Offshore drilling, on using the Petroleum strategic reserve, and many other things in his mad dash to the right. He is the King of Flip Flop. The huge problem with this pansy Barack Obama, is that he changes his
positions anytime it is politicaly expedient. McCain changed his position on this issue when it was unpopular to change. Obama is changing, because it is popular to change. Axelrod is shamelessly turning Obama into his little
marketing puppet. That's why the DNC hated Hillary. She was a leader not a follower or a manipulator. Obama is way too indecisive to lead America in this time of economic and energy crisis.See the chair on Obama's plane. It says President. Then there is the O on the tail of the plane that has replaced the flag of the United States. Then there was the faux Presidential seal. And on and on. I remain perplexed why
someone would use such presumptuous symbolism, and does not have the common sense to realize that such symbols inevitably backfire. But of course Drug users (Cokeheads) have psych issues. These people leave their drugs, but hatever issue they have remains. Bush and Obama we know were drug users. We've seen the results of one addictive personality in the WH, and now the
Democrats want equal time by giving the voters another addictive personality candidate. Maybe that's why BO has not released his medical records. BO must release his medical records immediatly so we can see how warped he really is. Hs addiction to drugs reminds me of Bush. We do not need another 4 years of an exdruggie president.

All this might not bother me so much if the stakes where not so high, but they are. I am an issues person, not a cult of personality devotee.
Substance matters. Barack is a politician, an inexperienced one at that, pretending he is different. I just see him as arrogant and power hungry. Our country deserves better, someone I would be proud to do business with.

Nobama Never

McCain 08 then Hillary 12

GO AWAY

McCain: We're better off than we were eight years ago, but worse off than we were four years ago, but better off than we were one year and six months ago, but worse off than we were ten months ago, but better off than we were last month, when it looked like my campaign was a goner.

Who says I'm not consistant?