Here's a great new idea for an ad for Obama that hits McCain on the economy and social security.

Finally, Feingold puts a moratorium on praising McCain. After spending the whole year saying that the country would do just as well with McCain. Please. Try finding one Republican who would say the same thing about Obama. We're often our own worse enemies.

More good ads by Obama.

I really am loving their new aggressive approach.

London Stock Exchange is more than 3% below its 52 week low. Down 4.3% right now - on top of the 4% or more yesterday.

This is a huge financial melt-down. And it's part of today's political atmosphere.

McShame ticket: If it's not broken yet, just wait till we get ahold of it:

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/editorial/304878

I think that the "Fundamentals" ad is their BEST ad so far.

I love it. It uses menacing music when many of their ads use CRAPPY happier music and McCain looks like an IDIOT not only with what he says but he is stumbling his words.

OMG!!!! McInsane is doing TWO (2) campaign stops in a single day!

Will he be taking off the next three to rest up?

Principle? Does McCain show any principle? I just want to win the election. Powell still has a lot of respect from many Americans and his endorsement would help Obama/Biden.

It's not worth selling your soul, but if it is possible to get Powell's support, I wouldn't have a problem.

I like the last shot with bush with both of them waving, with the ominous music, and McCain's words. it was like McCain and Bush were on the Titanic waving goodbye.

Ok. I love the 2 new Obama attack ads. And i don't think Obama should be seeking Colin Powell's endorsement. Powell has become damaged goods.

Those are awesome ads! I'm finally impressed!

Hey Greg/Eric,
Not sure if you guys think this is newsworthy but NOW is endorsing Obama. The women's ad is probably trying to take advantage of that endorsement and create some synergy.

If you truly want to know why the Sexist Pig Oilbama is sinking like a rock in the polls, besides the fact that Oilbama voted with Bush and Cheney and supported their Energy Bill which gave away 9 Billion to Big Oil, this article will help clarify it for you.
Why did Oilbama vote with Bush and Cheney while McCain and Hillary voted against them?
How much in the pocket of Big Oil is little Oilbama?

One of Them and One of Us
by Pat Buchanan
One wonders: What did Sarah Palin ever do to inspire the rage and bile that exploded on her selection by John McCain? What is there either in this woman’s record or resume to elicit such feline ferocity?

What did we know of her when she was introduced?
That she was a mother of five who had brought into this world a baby boy with Down syndrome, thus living her Christian beliefs. That she was a small-town conservative who had risen from mayor of Wasilla (Pop. 9,700) to be governor of a state twice the size of Texas.
That she was a reformer who had dethroned an Old Boys’ Network by dumping a sitting Republican governor. That she had taken on Big Oil, taxed the companies and returned the money in $1,200 checks to every citizen of Alaska. And that she had cut a deal with Canada to build a pipeline to bring natural gas to her fellow Americans.
And, oh, yes. She was “Sarah Barracuda” — a fierce high school athlete, a runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant, a Feminist for Life and lifetime member of the NRA. Introduced by McCain, she praised Hillary Clinton and pledged to finish her work by smashing through the glass ceiling in which Hillary had made 18 million cracks.
What, in any or all of this, is there to justify the feral attacks within minutes of her introduction? What had she done to cause this outburst? Answer: absolutely nothing.
No. Sarah Palin is not resented for what she has done, but for who she is: a Christian conservative who believes unborn children are gifts of God, even those with birth defects, and have a God-given right to life.
Normally, the press is reluctant to rummage into the private lives of public servants, unless their conduct affects their duties or they preach virtues they hypocritically do not practice.
Yet, no sooner was Palin introduced, than the media went berserk over the news that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. As one in three births in America is out-of-wedlock and Hollywood celebrates this lifestyle, why did The New York Times and The Washington Post splash this “news” on page one above the fold?
How does Bristol Palin’s pregnancy disqualify Sarah Palin to be vice president? Why is it even relevant?
They did it because they thought it would damage Sarah Palin in the eyes of a Christian community they do not comprehend.
So out of bounds was the media that Obama, in an act of decency, declared Palin’s family off limits and reminded the media that he was himself born to a teenage single mom.
If one would wish to see the famous liberal double standard on naked display, consider.
Palin’s daughter was fair game for a media that refused to look into reports that John Edwards, a Democratic candidate for president, was conducting an illicit affair with a woman said to be carrying his child and cheating on his faithful wife Elizabeth, who has incurable cancer. That was not a legitimate story, but Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is?
Why did the selection of Sarah Palin cause a suspension of all standards and a near riot among a media that has been so in the tank for Barack even “Saturday Night Live” has satirized the infatuation?
Because she is one of us — and he is one of them.
Barack and Michelle are affirmative action, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard Law. She is public schools and Idaho State. Barack was a Saul Alinsky social worker who rustled up food stamps. Sarah Palin kills her own food.
Michelle has a $300,000-a-year sinecure doing PR for a Chicago hospital. Todd Palin is a union steelworker who augments his income working vacations on the North Slope. Sarah has always been proud to be an American. Michelle was never proud of America — until Barack started winning.
Barack has zero experience as an executive. Sarah ran her own fishing fleet, was mayor for six years and runs the largest state in the union. She belongs to a mainstream Christian church. Barack was, for 15 years, a parishioner at Trinity United and had his daughters baptized by Pastor Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons are saturated in black-power, anti-white racism and anti-Americanism.
Sarah is a rebel. Obama has been a go-along, get-along cog in the Daley Machine. She is Middle America. Barack, behind closed doors in San Francisco, mocked Middle Americans as folks left behind by the global economy who cling bitterly to their Bibles, bigotries and guns.
Barack has zero foreign policy experience. Palin runs a state that is home to anti-missile, missile and air defense bases facing the Far East, commands the Alaska National Guard and has a soldier-son heading for Iraq.
Barack, says the National Journal, has the most left-wing voting record in the Senate, besting Socialist Bernie Sanders. Palin’s stances read as though they were lifted from Reagan’s 1980 “no pale pastels” platform. And this is what this media firestorm is all about.

I am lovin' that Fundamentals ad. And, agree with above that it's the best ad to date. I love how it moves the Lehman collapse, which is difficult to understand for us non-Wall Street types--to regular ole folks losing their jobs. I love the ominous music only interrupted by McFool's own words. Perfect.

And, screw Colin Powell. Does he have a base? Does anyone respect or care what that lying war criminal has to say?

Did anyone see McCain on MSNBC this morning accusing Mike Berzinski of being in the tank for BO? It came out of no where. Kos has the video of it.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/16/75115/3026/690/600351

The ads are good - particularly the one about McCain's opposition to equal pay for women.

The ad about the state of the economy is good and should shake the current mindset of a lot of voters but needs to be followed fairly quickly by a more optimistic one portraying Obama as the one to lead us back to prosperity. Voters want to feel good, if not about the economy at least that a candidate has a plan to get back to a strong economy.

Just saying that McCain ain't the guy will not bring voters over to Obama. That's kind of the fundamental thing that's been missing so far. In addition to breaking the McCain myth Obama needs ads that leave people feeling "I may not understand all this shit but this guy seems to and, in any event, he says there can be a happy ending." That's what Reagan did in 1980. "Morning in America" anyone?

Unfortunately, Powell squandered the same sort of goodwill people had for him in exactly the same way that McCain did. (cf that Richard Cohen piece linked on the hp here.)

Is Powell liked by the wingnuts? More moderate footsoldiers of the GOP? I honestly don't know how's he viewed, and if his endorsement will do more harm than good, or be greeted by a eh? (My guess is that it's the latter, since I don't think endorsements do all that much to persuade; they are sort of like verbal yard signs.)

(cf that Richard Cohen piece linked on the hp here.)

That Cohen piece is priceless. I almost emailed Josh last night and told him that I have a mental picture of Cohen in peignoir with lace trim, sitting on his chaise lounge weeping copious tears into his lace-trimmed hankie, over McLame's betrayal of Cohen's own personal set of priorities.

"very day all day and it's always the same fucking spam rant."
by HusseinTenaX

Nice language, but typical of a female Oilbama supporter. You must have been so proud when Oilbama voted for Dick Cheney's Energy Bill, never mind it was the worst Energy Bill in secret and was drafted in secret meetings between Cheney and Oil company executives and contained 9 Billion in givaways to Oilbama's friend Big Oil.

I'll accept Powell's endorsement if he shows Obama the proper deference.

Powell "undecided".

Yeh, Powell, thanks but no thanks, you gave up your integrity a long time ago. Now, the fact that your undecided just shows your lack of any fortitude whatsoever.

HusseinTenaX seems to think that an opposing viewpoints are spam. Typical of a cultist Obamabot Idiot. Now that I see Oilbamabots sliming McCain Palin as much as they did the Clintons I have so little respect for idiots like
HusseinTenaX that I am tempted to use her vulgar language. Of course I have too much class.