Nice! This is the way you pick a fight with McCain. Hammer him on integrity and honor, and wait for him to hit back too hard. He will overreact.

McCain "Would Rather Lose His Integrity Than Lose An Election"

Good line, just like the one related to his honor.

Now, I want ads about those lines, damn it!

Bwahahaha Great! Humor, snark, truth all in one neat pile :-)

Will it all pay off? I certainly hope so. I'll be a part of the echo chamber for a moment and repeat: make it an ad. Get it out there. Make it known. Make it so no one can ignore it, no one can brush it aside.

Perfect! I tell ya, I've had highs and lows with this campaign (last weekend was VERY bad), but I am now convinced: Obama really knows what he is doing. We are going to win.

PUT.

IT.

IN.

AN.

AD.

Thank you!

http://strategy08.wordpress.com

Obama has to go after McCain's "integrity," he has to hit him hard as a corrupt liar.

And here's another ad he should run, tying Palin’s cluelessness, flaws, dangers, etc must all be tied back to McCain.

Clip of McCain saying “My friends, there will be more wars.”
Clip of McCain singing “Bomb bomb bomb Iran.”
Clip of McCain saying 100 years in Iraq is okay with him.
Clip of McCain saying “It’s not important when the troops come home.”
Clip of Palin saying she’s cool with going to war over former Soviet republics.
War with Russia??! Over South Ossetia? Uzbekistan?!
Voice and tag line: IS THIS THE FUTURE YOU WANT?

At one point on The View he said that if Obama had accepted his offer to do community forums, the campaign wouldn't have sunk to this level. What a putz.

This statement isn't for us, the voters. It's for the political media. They're trying to game the refs into repeating the assertion. They've waited for the media to start to come to this conclusion, now they're priming the pump for more recognition of this. Maybe we'll hear Wolf ask "Do you think it's true that John McCain would rather lose his integrity than lose this election?"

Which, by the way, is unanswerable, politically. If the answer is "yes", John McCain looks like a sleaze. If the answer is "no", John McCain looks like he's a wuss who doesn't want the election badly enough.

I am beyond proud of my sistahs!!! LOL!!!!

That was awesome - he was surrounded. LMAO!

Finally, some real push back. Now they need to do what McCain camp is so good at. repeat it over and over at each opportunity to keep it in the news cycle.
This is what will hurt McCain. Showing his honor/integrity is long gone.

Yeah, that's great. Unless you put it in a campaign ad, it will go nowhere. Begin saturation bombing.

I think it would be more powerful if Obama said;

"I'd rather lose with integrity than lead America without it".

He knew it. He approved it. He just blew it.

Now that's what I'm fucking talking about! More pleez!

now obama is unleashing the fire out on mccukoo and his campaign team,he needs to blast the media as well for interviewing all white racist trailer trash in west virginia,kentucky,pennsylvania as well to,why doesnt the media start interview smart open minded white people young and old thats lookin 4 change and doesnt judge a person by the color of their skin,blast mccain camp as all of karl roves racist divisive fearmongerin disciples,blast the white racist trailer trash sarah palin for makin fun of community organizer along wit racist mitt romney,guliani and fred thompson,blast mccain for callin his drug addict millionaire wife a cunt

I think Rove told the McCain camp to lie about everything, about himself, about Palin, about their records; and this would give him just enough voters who would think that no one would lie the way they are.

Rove to McCain; the more we do to them the less they believe we're doing it.

For. The. Win.

I think I just decoded McCain's lie today on The View. He was saying that as Governor she vetoed any earmarks that the Alaska state legislature put into the state budget -- he wasn't talking about the federal earmarks.

I think.

and I have no idea if it is true or not.

It's a legitmate claim but more importantly it puts Obama in control of the message.

Now he can wag ol' McDog any way he likes.

OK, here's what I don't get: Why would anyone want someone who was a POW to be president?

Get it?

There has got to be some way to work that angle and if it is worked it would take McCain right out. Strike at the heart of his strength.

This integrity business is a small part of working that angle.

I've already heard salt-of-the-earth working stiffs, Vietnam-vet age, mutter that McCain got shot down and captured BECAUSE of his own ineptitude. Another way to work the angle.

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There has got to be a hundred ways to go at it.

Did anyone notice that the words "Governor Palin" appear nowhere in this statement? Hallelujah!

Way to go Obama. Let's keep it coming so we can win this thing.

Way to go Obama. Let's keep it coming so we can win this thing.

OK, here's what I don't get: Why would anyone want someone who was a POW to be president?

Get it?

There has got to be some way to work that angle and if it is worked it would take McCain right out. Strike at the heart of his strength.

This integrity business is a small part of working that angle.

I've already heard salt-of-the-earth working stiffs, Vietnam-vet age, mutter that McCain got shot down and captured BECAUSE of his own ineptitude. Another way to work the angle.

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There has got to be a hundred ways to go at it.

McCain was called out on The View and then he had to lie. He knew he was lying. We knew he was lying. He knew that we knew he was lying. Still, he did it. What code of honor does that fall under?

Then there's Sarah. I read this today: How can she be ready to be the Vice President when she wasn't even ready for Charlie Gibson?

Huffo reports leak that Obama Liar Ad ready

McCain was called out on The View and then he had to lie. He knew he was lying. We knew he was lying. He knew that we knew he was lying. Still, he did it. What code of honor does that fall under?

Then there's Sarah. I read this today: How can she be ready to be the Vice President when she wasn't even ready for Charlie Gibson?

I agree with everyone else there needs to be an ad.

Integrity is a powerful word. But they also need to hammer the word "lie" into the ground. If "celeb" stuck to Obama, the Obama campaign needs to stick "lie" to McCain. It will allow them to respond to _all_ of the nonsense that pops up if it takes hold:

"That's just John lying again."

"That's just another Republican lie."

It will eventually allow them them to backtrack to get stuff like "celeb" off Obama by pointing out that McCain has been a starfucker for years.

It's the most powerful word they can easily throw at him, since "old" and "unstable" and "forgetful" and "batshit crazy" seem to be out of the Democratic playbook.

John

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Obama campaign,

I hope this is a preview of how you intend to command next week's news cycle?

Obama must finally realize he is losing this election. A little to late.

Weak. Sorry, but the McCain campaign will just say "Apparently, Obama has no message so he chooses to attack. He attacks Palin, and now he attacks McCain. That is the depth that Obama has sunken to."

In order to get this to stick, Obama has to fake outrage and then he has to have millions and millions of supporters fake outrage, too. (Well, the outrage really isn't fake in our case, unlike the lipstick.) But the Dems lack that stupid, lock step outrage the other side has. So this won't go anywhere.

It is a problem for Obama. How do you handle incessant, nasty, false attacks on you? If you respond, you get off message; if you ignore them, they stick. I work as a substitute teacher, and I often face the same dilemma. If a student wants to disrupt, to yell and scream and curse, he becomes the center of attention. If you respond to the student, you can't teach; if you ignore him, you can't teach. You can't communicate or debate when the other side deliberately disrupts, and when the press just sits idle.

I just got this from DailyKos. This is very powerful and somewhat graphic. It reminds you why this very election is critically important. No More Wars!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w

HE'S ALIVE!

Palin may turn out to be a gift that keeps on giving. Her interview with ABC News scared the s**t out of me. He may be well intended, but even a well intended person could not be a co-pilot of a passenger plane.

Having said this, I would ask you a question: would you trade places with the Reps in this election?

I just got this from DailyKos, who got from Open Left. This is very powerful and somewhat graphic. It reminds you why this very election is critically important. No More Wars!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w

I love it. Attack McCain's strength and piss him off!!

Now THAT stings.

Oilbama lost any attempt at Integrity when he voted for the Bush Cheney Energy Bill.

I've been waiting for this for the past week. Call out McCain on his honor and integrity. Hit him right in the gut and see how he reacts. About time they did this.

Now it's getting interesting!

>>But they didn't. Haven't you been keeping up? It's been the headlines all over - they have called McLame out for lying and they have called Palin out for being totally unqualified.

But this press reaction strikes as too weak to really sway the election. You would need the same level of mockery dumped on Gore (when he wasn't lying) to sway the pubic, I would think. The McCain is banking on that the public who will sway the election will only follow the hype and the ads. Like I said, McCain is following a risky strategy.

Hah!

Folks should go read the latest over at Sullivan's page. I think this reader is on to something, and this site should take notice.

Where can I go these days to actual hear what Obama is saying on the trail? All I hear about is big, bad Palin and McCain. It's gotten to be an obsession, and it's not helpful.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/are-the-netroot.html#more

I like that young man! Hope to see him showing up more as an Obama rep. Has the Biden knack of saying (or implying) "That's bullshit!" when you know that he really believes it to his bones, but does it without sneering.

I'll tell you something. My view of things is this. We in the liberal blogs are attacking McShame. Which frees up Obama and Biden to go out there and present the issues and the message.

We already know the message. We know the issues. We don't need Barack there to oversee every little detail! this is not the repub party where things trickle down from the top. We are the Dems. We can think for ourselves.

And my view, my very strong view here is that our tasks differ. We are attacking the attackers. And watching out for Barack's back! So he can go out there and take the high ground and present the issues to the people who still need to hear them.

Just hammer away folks! Cuz we are making progress. Don't look to Barack for guidance, cuz he has set us free. It's our movement. We should not make things hard for our guy. No, we should make his road easier - by attacking these lies and these cries of "wolf!" "wolfie!"

I have to say that after watching a lot of McCain's interview on The View http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/12/mccain-grilled-on-the-vie_n_125972.html

it's clear that the mostly non-journalists on The View do a better job than the whole of the msm in actually challenging McCain on his lies and speaking in vague generalities.

The MSM berated Obama for a long time for supposedly lacking substance, but the McCain campaign doesn't appear to have ANY specific plans. They just shout, "Drill" and "Reform".

While Obama would rather retain his integrity than win an election.

What a terrible quote... what a terrible idea... what a terrible rebuttal.

I'm not a concern troll. I'm here to tell you that this thing is lost. Obama still, after having his honor attacked, his integrity impugned, and having been smeared by a barrage of ads, is issuing bland statements about lobbyists and hinting that McCain is old (1982.) Good luck with that Mr. Obama. It's a loser strategy for what is looking increasingly like a loser campaign.

I'm gonna tell you one more time, and this is your last chance to get it right. You have to go after McCain in aggressive and personal terms. His drug abusing wife, his incompetent vice president, his support for child molesters(right where he attacked you... kick him back in the nuts... because everybody knows that is what he did to you, and everybody knows you haven't responded.)

You are looking like Dukakis after the rape question.

You are looking like Kerry on a windboard.

You are being mocked and ridiculed... bad enough... but worse... truly fatal... you are not being seen as a man who can defend himself and HIT BACK.

Fail dude. Total fail.

And I don't give a damn about you, but I sure as shit don't want to live in the country that your inability to fight is going to leave me with.

Barry's melting! THE ONE, the Muslim Jesus (BHO can't remember his religion so I give him the benefit of doubt and believe he's a Muslim). The end is near... President McCain/ VP Bimbo. Back to being the empty suit Junior Slime-bag Senator from the corrupt state of Illinois.

B. Hussein Obama = LOSER!

Clinton 2012; McCain 2008!

This is a damn-dirty-lie by the Obama Campaign . . . John McCain has no integrity at all to trade, give or sell.

A press statement? Seriously? THAT'S the new harsher strategy the Obama campaign is taking. This campaign is looking more and more like Kerry/Edwards all over again.

Of course McCain would rather lose his integrity rather than lose the election! How is this news to anyone? Does anyone here think that Mr. and Mrs. Joe Middle America give one rat's ass whether or not McCain's integrity is intact? No, because all they see on TV are the lies that McCain is airing over and over and over. Our response? Send a f#%$ing press release?!?! Ugh. Perception is reality, whether or not it's wearing lipstick.

Until Obama/Biden start visually and vocally fighting back and regain some of the fire and enthusiasm that has all but totally dissipated since the convention, we're going to lose this thing.

I'm tired of losing. I'm even more tired of watching Democrat after Democrat stand by and take punch after punch to the face without ever once thinking of swinging back.

Democratic faithful to Obama/Biden...where are you?

A little help from a friend to win this election:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94575902&ft=1&f=1004

The line should have been...He would rather lie than lost the election.

Obma is a really good speech maker, but a speech maker does not a President make. McCain will eat his lunch during the debates, unless the people asking them are all from MSNBC.
I heard that Obama wanted to make the peacock the National Bird and flower.

cannot wait for the debates just hope obama hammers the lies of his big time it is really time to take the gloves off when they start lying look at 2004 what happened they lied kerry did not hit back and we lost

cannot wait for the debates just hope obama hammers the lies of his big time it is really time to take the gloves off when they start lying look at 2004 what happened they lied kerry did not hit back and we lost

cannot wait for the debates just hope obama hammers the lies of his big time it is really time to take the gloves off when they start lying look at 2004 what happened they lied kerry did not hit back and we lost

Yeah, we lost it. no doubt about it.
For 6 weeks now I was waiting, hoping he will take it them, but hill no, like Kerry, Gore & even Dukakis before, same old story, he f~~king fall on his face and start rambling around. They got him now, and knowing how these vile republicans act, they will never let off. He now falls into their trap, just listen:
** The "surge"" has succeeded beyond our expectations> what success, we can't even take 1000 solider out of Iraq, what success when we lost over 4200 dead,50000 wounded, & over 10 $trillion lost, what success??
*** Keeps on calling McCain "service" heroic, we lost the damn war in Vietnam, Again swallowing the GOP TPs.
*** When they ran an ad accusing him of supporting child porn, you think he’ll come out swinging and mad as hill, like how dare you, and instead of a press release had an ad with McCain history of the Keating Five, 25+ years of sleazy deals in DC for the defense contractors while our bridges fall apart, his support of the wrong war that cause 4200 Americans dead, etc, just show some fight for Christ sake, so we can be proud of you, and show us you are different from Gore & Kerry.
*** They laughed at his experience and abilities at their conventions, you think he'll come out swinging, hill no, he just keeps on whistling dixxie.
*** I gave Barak $$, now, I think HRC was right when she said no dem knows how to beat the sleazy GOP but the Clintons, so maybe we have to wait 20-25 more years when Chelsea runs for president, so we can have our "own" president.

I disagree - well I really do trust Obama's electoral intelligence, and I trust that he has the right plan to come out on top. The elections are still two months away, there are one on one debates to be held, and McCain's aggressive tactic will, I hope and believe, prove to be short sighted, the beginning of his end. Right now he s going all out, let him consume himself.

Timing is everything. The Obama campaign waited until McCain had really dug a nice, deep hole for himself before getting out the shovels. Now it's war, but McCain's lost his credibility and his integrity. Good job, Obama.

Obama has been brilliant lately. Did you notice what he did to Sarah Palin? His campaign saw her speech at the convention, with the line about being a pit bull with lipstick, and they knew this was going to be a major theme in the weeks going forward. So they took it away from her. In one sentence, Obama destroyed her big punch line. It will never be used again. That's why the McCain campaign responded with such ferocity. How DARE Obama be smarter than them?

This is just the start of it. I'm just waiting for the day when Joe Biden starts saying, "Folks, it's time for a little straight talk..."

Obama is gonna kick ass.

I would like to see an ad where they show ALL of McCain's lies. That is what needs to be run. I especially want them to show the clip where McCain says...she put the jet on ebay and sold it for a profit.

That lie will make the mcCain camp angry. McCain has been duped into regurgitating Palin's lying talking points.

They also need to show McCain talking about how she is a reformer when it comes to earmarks. They need to capture McCain saying 'she reformed Alaska and when it came to earmarks she rejected them'

Then again show it is a lie.

Every single lie Palin has told they need to put Mccain in the ad repeating it and calling him a liar.

This will create lots and lots of infighting with the McCain camp. While they had misleading ads prior to Palin, McCain was not an outright liar.

Ummm, except for the ad saying Obama would raise taxes, that was a lie and it was before Palin.

They also need to put McCain in the ad remarking on how mayors and governors with short term experience do not measure up. Then juxtapose that with his statemetns on the most important criteria for a VP.

It is time for the Obama campaign to show how the StraightTalk McCain has turned into the Shameful lying without honor McCain.

We need an ad that's a montage of McCain's greatest hits:
-"Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran"
-reaction to "bitch" comment re Hillary
-confusion about Sunni/Shiite and borders of mid-east countries
-disparaging small town mayors
ETC.

Simple tag line: Is this who you want to lead your country?

Also, surrogates should bring up the absurdity of McCain's feigned outrage over "sexism" against Palin by calling him on his disgusting rape joke, the Hillary "bitch" incident, his calling his wife a disgusting name (if that can be confirmed). So far, Rachel Maddow is the only one I've seen go there. This is not a man who seems to respect women, and it's so twisted that his campaign can play the sexism card.

Notice when McCain is lying, he stutters.

Notice the GOP pundents talk so fast "they" don't even know what they are saying, and because they talk and don't suck oxygen, they are literally brain dead. How can you trust a stuttering republican that has no manners?

By the time McCaine has selacked all his lies America will be so tired of hollow thoughts.

I hear McCain talk I swear I hear an echo!

McCain's own words provide the most powerful reasons against his presidential ambitions. When asked to justify why it was OK for McCain to say 'lipstick on a pig' but not OK for Obama, McCain said "Obama chooses his words very carefully". The only interpretation I can think of for this, is that McCain believes that he himself does not choose his words carefully. That shows two important points about why McCain is unfit to be president. Firstly, he does not think carefully about what he says. And secondly, he thinks that he should not be held accountable for what he says. As we have seen from Bush, such characteristics make for disastrous foreign policy.

Don't these sleazoids all claim to be Christians?

Matthew 26: For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

I am MORE AFRAID of someone who lies with reckless abandon, than I am of anyone else, period.

And the new John McCain is not the same one I voted for in 2000. That John McCain would not have resorted to telling lies.

To say that I am disappointed, is an understatement.

What has happened to him, I do not know, but whatever it is, It is sickening.

But in the end (of this political process), one thing will be perfectly clear:

Americans would have gotten the kind of leader they want or deserve, whoever that person happens to be.

*SIGH* OsiSpeaks[dot]com

Well Senator Obama may indeed choose his words carefully but sometimes Mr. McCain doesn't choose to express himself with words at all. Instead his face turns red with anger. He was getting to that point in this great interview.

He really can be a very scary guy.

Senator Obama may indeed choose his words carefully but sometimes Mr. McCain doesn't use words to express himself at all. Instead his face turns red with anger. He was almost at that point when this interview ended.

I hear McSame speaks and feels I need to go take a dump.....
Hey, anyone have any news on the initiative plan in San Francisco to rename the sewage treatment plant after Bush....
Maybe the good people of AZ need to consider such an honor for McSame.

What honor? McCain will not even give the press a definition of the word anymore. Why do people preface remarks on McCain's lies with the phrase, McCain is an honorable man? You can judge a man by his deeds, and McCain's deeds have become a tirade spouting a litany of lies, innuendo, and sleaze. His cynical attempts to demonize his opponent speaks volumes to his honor and credibility.

Calling out South Carolina 2000 is FUCKING BRILLIANT and they should mention it every chance they get. Remind that asshole where he's from and who he's becoming.