!!!!!!!!!!!Fired Up, Ready To Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds good to me. One of our advantages is that we've got multiple top-level people out there speaking independently: Obama, Biden, Hillary, Bill.

As long as they insist on keeping Palin tethered to McCain, they're going to be running 1 ground event for every 2 or 3 we run.

Please do not forget to emphasize how OLD McCain is - do not be shy - say he is TOO OLD

Key words : forgetful, irritable, senile, easily frustrated, over-medicated, needs a nap, out of touch, crotchety, living in the past ...

Nice to hear some confidence for a change.

I just hope he's not relying on "THE math."

Plus, there are lots of honeys on the campaign trail . . .

I hope he sees something we haven't been. We still put a lot of stock in his campaigns, the bad press of the recently completed primaries not withstanding. He's still the only thoroughly successful Democratic presidential campaigner of the past 30 years.

Bill Clinton is going through the motions. BHO did nothing to cut Hillary's campaign debt and stupidly picked Senator Hair Plugs for VP. Bill knows Barry is going back to his subcommittee after McCain/Bimbo win.

Barry is a loser and Bill knows it!

Well, I'm glad Clinton's more gracious now than he has been in the past.

I love the optimism but this race right now is tied/mccain up slightly.

and the only way to reverse the momentum is to have something happen that will get indies back on the obama side.

Bill: "I predict that Sen. Obama will win and win handily."

Isn't that what he said about Hillary?

Bill: "I predict that Sen. Obama will win and win handily."

He no doubt had his testicles crossed when he said this.

Bill: "I predict that Sen. Obama will win and win handily."

He no doubt had his testicles crossed when he said this.

If Obama doesn't win it'd be ridiculous. Lehman Bros. is near failure but no one's buying unless the feds backstop a deal, like they backstopped Bear Stearns a couple months back, like they NATIONALIZED the key provider of liquidity in the mortgage market over the week-end... Moral Hazard anyone?

It's now very likely that Uncle Sam owns the portion of your house that isn't your own equity. Chew on that for a second. But some still think Republican economic policy has been great, but most of us that haven't been brainwashed that the Plutocrat/theocrat coalition government is truly awful for most small businesses.

And now Paulson has got Uncle Sam to start up his own version of the SIV - Sovereign Investment Vehicle - and is selling treasuries to purchase of Mortgage Backed Securities in the taxpayers name and drive down mortgage rates. Are taxpayers getting compensated with market rates for the risks they are taking on? Do we realize this was done to reassure foreign holders of agency bonds (China, Middle East, etc.) so our financial system doesn't collapse under the expense of the Iraq war? Does this sound anything like the "smaller government" or the "free market" to anyone?

Even my National Review reading dc-power-broker boss of my org thinks the republicans and Bush admin are a joke and openly mocks them at our meetings. Here in the trenches of our countries financial crisis, we're aware that we are treading on the precipice. While the RNC chants "Drill baby drill", we're in the mens' room joking about how we're blindly heading into the next great depression.

Obama should be co-opting those refrains the republicans have used so effectively against us - thought they campaign on it but don't put it into practice. As he did in his convention speech, he should be talking about making government smaller, more transparent and more responsive while pointing the finger at Bush expansion of federal government and lack of responsiveness. (1 million names on the terrorist watch list, including congressman, with no recourse). He should talk about liberty, and our right to make individual choices and our sacred duty to think of our neighbors when making those choices. He will pick up Ron Paul voters and independents. He isn't toeing the dem party line on Fannie and Freddie, and has discussed something of a market based solution though slightly fuzzy on the critical details. This is good but I want to see more of the movement into pragmatism rather than a retreat into it's most ridiculous corners of partisanship. Stop fighting McCain's lies and put the big picture back in the frame.

Fmr. Rep. Oxley (R, btw) came out earlier this week and blamed the Bush and Treasury "ideologues" for the nationalization of Fannie and Freddie since they wouldn't pass perfectly reasonable legislation to regulate the GSEs because they didn't think they should exist. (I wonder how the mortgage crisis would've been without 80% of it going through Fannie Freddie) And they're now trying to blame the Dems for not passing reforms to Fannie Freddie regulation (when republicans were in charge of congress, btw). OFHEO's Lockhart, another Bush appointee, said everything was great just a couple months ago.

Seriously, financial armeggedan is going on in the background of this election as a result of Republican policies and they are getting a free pass. If we don't win this election in a landslide, there is something seriously wrong with this country. If we do lose, I'm moving to Asia and getting on board with the new world order.

End of Rant.

We may know Palin's policy positions, and why she's drawing the radical evangelicals, but the Average Joe Cable Watcher does not. I mention (as a woman) to people I talk to why I don't want to see Palin in a position where she can legislate on anything, including making abortion no longer an option even in cases of rape, and they look at me blankly. They don't know anything about what she believes, they just know that she seems like a good woman who is being bashed on the head. Have to get the REAL reason we're afraid of Palin out there, because she's in no way qualified for the position of VP, because she's regressive on women's issues and looney tunes reactive Repub right wing on national security, and she's done nothing but utter lies about her record from the minute she hit the public stage. Not because she's a woman and she's pretty, and she's a "celebrity," (the Repubs criticism of Obama, when they were jealous of him). What about (bumper sticker) "Republican Mac and His Moose Whopper - Want Lies with That?"

We may know Palin's policy positions, and why she's drawing the radical evangelicals, but the Average Joe Cable Watcher does not. I mention (as a woman) to people I talk to why I don't want to see Palin in a position where she can legislate on anything, including making abortion no longer an option even in cases of rape, and they look at me blankly. They don't know anything about what she believes, they just know that she seems like a good woman who is being bashed on the head. Have to get the REAL reason we're afraid of Palin out there, because she's in no way qualified for the position of VP, because she's regressive on women's issues and looney tunes reactive Repub right wing on national security, and she's done nothing but utter lies about her record from the minute she hit the public stage. Not because she's a woman and she's pretty, and she's a "celebrity," (the Repubs criticism of Obama, when they were jealous of him). What about (bumper sticker) "Republican Mac and His Moose Whopper - Want Lies with That?"

Yes, E2, you are right : easily led ... easily led astray and manipulated ...

He would be a cinch to isolate and feed neocon nonsense - he would do whatever they steer him to do. Nightmare.

I hope the Obama campaign cuts some ads with Clinton in them. I think that a lot of people who might be nervous about voting for Obama would be more persuaded if Clinton was speaking about him with passion.