Unfortunately this comments been used before -- media's not paying attention. They only hear LIPSTICK or PIGS or HOCKEY MOMS

Yep. McSame and the EarmarkQueen. THey just don't get it.

This is a great bumper sticker design.

McConJob/Phalin = Election Loss

Good idea on so many levels:

- Let's tie Obama with Bush and Bush's decisions

- Let's separate McCain from Bush and Bush's decisions

- Let's give McCain every opportunity to bring back the surge, withdrawal or victory meme, etc.

Smart strategy. Like every other strategy in the past three weeks.

How about: Bush has finally adopted Obama's position. Now the only one who wants to stay in Iraq is John McCain.

This strikes me as a pretty effective opening into painting McCain as not "the same" as Bush but even WORSE - why are no Democrats acknowledging that over the past few months Bush has gravitated toward Obama's stated positions from last year on Pakistan, time lines for getting out of Iraq, etc.

McCain made the decision to stand in a corner that even Bush has abandoned. That's not change we can believe in.

Bush's actions recall the Voice Farm song lyric:
"It's my idea now, I did the work."

People are not fooled. Both McCain and Obama have said they want to be out of Iraq. And if articles about the national mood are correct, McCain's POV is favored based on recent news of progress there.

Way out on a limb: Is it possible that the October surprise will be the capture or killing of Bin Laden? Seems efforts are being stepped up there. I suspect Bush wants closure before he leaves office.

Remember when McCain angrily shouted at his wife in front of his friends and called her a "c***"? (Do look it up if you haven't heard. It's just a Google search away.) Well, here's McCain shoving a little old war widow in a wheelchair:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/51660.html

I wonder what we'd be hearing if Obama had behaved in such a manner.

Why, oh why, hasn't this story broken yet? This directly attacks McCain's supposed strength, namely, his honor and his character. Tell me who could think him of good character after reading about this? And it has the virtue of actually being true!

Why all the reticence to bring up damaging information that's true? Why don't they do to McCain what Biden says you ought to do to any lying bully---bloody his nose!

The money quote from the article above:

--

Back in Washington, families of POW/MIAs said they have seen McCain's wrath repeatedly. Some families charged that McCain hadn't been aggressive enough about pursuing their lost relatives and has been reluctant to release relevant documents. McCain himself was a prisoner of war for five-and-a-half years during the Vietnam War.

In 1992, McCain sparred with Dolores Alfond, the chairwoman of the National Alliance of Families for the Return of America's Missing Servicemen and Women, at a Senate hearing. McCain's prosecutor-like questioning of Alfond — available on YouTube — left her in tears.

Four years later, at her group's Washington conference, about 25 members went to a Senate office building, hoping to meet with McCain. As they stood in the hall, McCain and an aide walked by.

Six people present have written statements describing what they saw. According to the accounts, McCain waved his hand to shoo away Jeannette Jenkins, whose cousin was last seen in South Vietnam in 1970, causing her to hit a wall.

As McCain continued walking, Jane Duke Gaylor, the mother of another missing serviceman, approached the senator. Gaylor, in a wheelchair equipped with portable oxygen, stretched her arms toward McCain.

"McCain stopped, glared at her, raised his left arm ready to strike her, composed himself and pushed the wheelchair away from him," according to
Eleanor Apodaca, the sister of an Air Force captain missing since 1967.

McCain's staff wouldn't respond to requests for comment about specific incidents.

Zimmerman showed the kind of fight that has been missing from the Democrats this year. I'm glad CNN has a contributor who's not merely reciting talking points, but is actually showing some original thinking. I've seen him before - he's funny, intelligent, and thoughtful. The Democrats need more voices like his.

This gives more credence to the ad exec TPM reader who suggested the Obama campaign replace their "McCain is more of the same" slogan with "McCain is worse."

I would love to hear Obama say this in one of the debates just so see McCain's facial expression...

"Throughout my campaign, I have showed you many reasons why John McCain is not change, but more of the same. But lately I've had a different idea. John McCain is the candidate of change for the worse!"

Zimmerman is highly under-utilized by the party. He has a very good mind for framing, something Dems as a whole sorely lack and sure need a lot of help with. I've seen Zimmerman a lot on Lou Dobbs (yes, you do have to sit through Dobbs to see Zimmerman) and have never figured out why I don't see him elsewhere and more often. The Obama campaign should really take note of him.

John McCain "owns" national security as an issue.

The problem is, like the number of houses he 'owns', John McCain can't count the number of positions he has 'owned' on issues.