Slightest, not Sightest.

Oh and you should post that video from McCain that they sent around while Obama was overseas (there's a shot with Obamas face superimposed over a $100 bill).

And, now how about a story featuring all the economic policies the Obama campaign have announced since McCan't has started his negative campaign of non-issues. Here I'll start you off:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aWu6R_8sVVB8&refer=home

Obama should push the "Devine" ad, because it really makes the GOP look silly and desperate and will effect how other ads are viewed in the future.

Greg thanks for the high points. What were the low points?

TGIF - anyone got good plans for the weekend?

http://strategy08.wordpress.com

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Local_papers_shrug_at_race_card_dispute.html?showall

What a bunch of fucking bullshit. Walnuts had better get called on this and pronto.
Isn't "negative in the slightest"? I know the GOP thinks Americans are stupid, but we're not that stupid, ARE WE??
I think Walnuts just jumped the shark with this. It's possible to have too much of a "good" thing.

Well that argument certainly got a boost when Axelrod foolishly admitted that Obama was talking about his race with the "dollar bills" remark.

So when do they come out with the "whitey tape". . .the 3 remaining PUMA/NOIQ diehards must be salivating. . . by the way, has any polling been done with Bob Barr and Ralph Nader as candidates?

I agree...Obama needs to quit saying McCain is honorable. I never thought he was honorable and I know he isn't now. Honor carries over into your personal life if you have it and McCain has shown in his personal decisions he doesn't live by honor.

Does it strike anyone else that the McLame campaign is hauling out the kitchen sink strategy a tad early?

Like - "Holy shit! Do something!" early?

Obama tells the House that, finally, our prayers have been answered - he has Risen. Then, any word used to describe him is all of a sudden Racist and demeaning. Unless one is singing his praises to the high heavens, any remotely negative statement about his behavior, his - dare I say it? - Arrogance, his lack of policy, his lack of Experience, is all Racist.
Now, he has taken to accusing the McCain campaign of racism when they haven’t said word one that was racist. He is setting the stage, just like he did with Hillary Clinton. He tells his followers how evil the other person is, what they are going to say, not what they have said, then these people believe that is exactly what they said. No amount of evidence to the contrary can sway them. The McCain Campaign is racist, and that’s all there is about it. It doesn’t help that Obama’s aides claim he is not introducing race into the discussion, despite his very clear statements of doing just that. Obamessiah said it, so it must be true, and if you don’t see it, then you are a racist, too. One of Obama’s lines was that he doesn’t look the same as the other presidents on our money. Well, First of all, turdhead Obama -you are not the President, second of all, you are the one who keeps bringing up race.

The Superdelagates have to dump this turd that is Obama and beg Hillary to accept the nomination.

"having some fun."

Hmmm, McCain's attitude is starting to remind me of something, what is it? Ahah, got it. McCain is a troll! These ads are designed to get a rise out of Democrats and the Obama campaign and get a boost from his base.

He can't energize the wingnuts with issues because he doesn't agree with them on most and he has flopped all over the place on the rest. He has to get the base going with ATTITUDE. And nothing gets a rise out of wingnuts like poking at Democrats until they get a reaction, the bigger the reaction the better. And then hopefully get Democrats so pissed that they say something that will be used against them.

The NYTimes is now running a piece called "Malwebolence: The Trolls Among Us" which will be in the Sunday magazine. It is a profile of several well-known internet trolls and although the ones mentioned are not overtly political the techniques and attitudes they display are similar to the trolls that we see here at TPM.

Shortly after I read that I saw McCain's presser and the latest web ad and the similarity of the methods and attitude is obvious to me. McCain has become a geriatric political troll and he intends to bring down Obama and the entire process with infectious nihilism. Drag Obama into the gutter and then come out of the Republican Convention and change his tune back to that ole mavericky dude that the press loves so much.

This time I don't think it will work for him.

I want Obama to win but I have to agree with the poster that said he needs to get tough and realley lay into McAss! I'm trying to stay the course; I donate, I teach and I dispute, But I don't know how much more I can do! I he doesn't tighten up, I feel he is going to lose:(

I want Obama to win but I have to agree with the poster that said he needs to get tough and realley lay into McAss! I'm trying to stay the course; I donate, I teach and I dispute, But I don't know how much more I can do! I he doesn't tighten up, I feel he is going to lose:(

I don't see anything wrong with Obama pointing out to people what they can expect from the opposition. Nixon's Southern Strategy. Bush I's Willie Horton. The crap flying around in e-mails now. And, remember, this is now a Karl Rove production. There are no boundaries. It's win at all costs for them.

They (whoever the McCain campaign gets to do their dirty work for them) will resort to overt racism, and nasty stuff at that, when it gets down to the wire. Bank on it.

The last person I remember talking about having some "fun" was Clinton, she's back in D.C. now trying to pay a large debt for all that "fun" she had. Obama has been mocked before as a fairy tale or someone who just gives a good speech--that strategy didn't win though. People's financial problems are severe, we don't want a good laugh from the presidential candidate, we want some answers about the economy.

Oh, that Hillary is being so mean! Oops, that's out of date. Oh, that McCain is being so mean! Only the truly dull-witted could possibly be surprised that the GOP is attacking Obama. What did you people expect?!

One small detail that will probably be lost to history is that it was actually Obama who started playing the lying dirty politics first, gleefully assisted by people like Josh Marshall. McCain became furious, and it looks like he decided that if that's how Obama wants to play, then he can play that way too.