It's old stuff to us, but doggonit, this is going to play a lot better in the heartland than yet another McLame ad about Obama having the most liberal voting record in the senate, yadda yadda yadda.

Yadda?

I like it, too.

Since the attack lately is "Who is Barack Obama?" here's the answer. And it's a damn good answer.

Contrast with the other side is yet more striking, more and more so day by day...

Good stuff.

Well said..

Sooo i had CNN on for like 10 secs, and i hear them talking about how Obama won the debate according to their focus group but more people in their focus group say they are going to choose McCain, and of course its "why cant Obama close the deal". HES UP BY 11, ARGHHH IDIOTS.

When will we see the videos and stories of McCain's life BEFORE the military? Ever wonder why we don't?

Greg,

This Ad is running in Pennsylvania - particularly in Philadelphia media market. Philadelphia media market covers Philadelphia suburbs, southern New Jersey and Delaware.

The Ad is running early in the money between the hour of 5:30am - 7 am

Austronauts returning from Australia, presumably. Or Austria?

Excellent ad!

Obama needs to show everybody who he is and where he came from. He's just not African-American, he's part Irish and a few other things as well; n short, he's bi-racial.

People need to be reminded of this, especially the low info swing undecided.

Here's a little snippet from today's Columbus paper, in particular, check out the last paragraph:

One party had beer. The other had prayer.

But both groups of central Ohio debate-watchers were adamant about supporting their favorite in last night's presidential debate.

The groans, cheers, boos and applause from a decidedly liberal crowd of about 200 flowed as freely as the beer on tap at Studio 35, where Sen. Barack Obama drew rave reviews for his performance.

As with many events at the historic single-screen theater, the debate had the feel of a neighborhood block party. Attendees laughed, hugged and enjoyed a few beers together, while popcorn popped, and boxes of pizza -- and a few local candidates -- streamed through the front door.

Like the rowdy, overflow vice presidential watch party the week before, the gathering was organized by a loose-knit group of neighbors calling themselves the Lower Clintonville Democratic Club.

"There is excitement, enthusiasm and energy in watching a debate with a crowd of people," said group organizer David Vottero as others stood behind tables, selling raffle tickets and other items where proceeds will be donated to Obama's campaign. "It's like watching a game."

Alessa Smith, 28, of the Short North, agreed.

"I need some humor with my politics and this is a very liberal gathering," she said.

On Obama, she added: "He would handle the conflict in the Middle East better because he is more concerned with diplomacy instead of sending in troops to kill everyone."

The audience was not shy about letting its opinions be known.

Andrew Sacher, 33, of Victorian Village, shouted out "mission accomplished!" as Obama criticized Republican Sen. John McCain's judgment in supporting the Iraq War.

Obama drew major cheers when he told McCain that his Straight Talk Express had lost a wheel, when he suggested that AIG officials who took a $400,000 retreat should be fired, and when he said he didn't understand why we invaded a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.

The biggest laugh came from the curious look on Obama's face as McCain accused him of wanting to raise taxes.

The crowd let out serious jeers when McCain talked about suspending his campaign to deal with the Wall Street crisis, supporting nuclear power, and when he simply mentioned the name of Ronald Reagan.

Rob Schmidley, 50, of Clintonville, gave Obama the debate victory.

"I think he (Obama) is showing more poise and clarity of thought," he said. "It's classic Obama."

At the McCain debate-watching party in Upper Arlington, just as Tom Brokaw appeared, host Marie Adamo quickly turned down the sound on the flat-screen television in her family room, next to a poster on "The Mysteries of the Rosary," to offer a quick prayer for the Arizona senator: "I just pray that John McCain knocks it out of the ballpark and that he really, really gets the point across that he's the best candidate."

After a quick plea to St. Michael to watch over McCain, most of the two-dozen-plus jammed into the room crossed themselves and the sound of the Fox broadcast came back on.

So did the sound in the room.

Hardly an Obama statement went by that wasn't challenged by one of the watchers.

"That's not the question he asked," various folks would cry when Obama's answer dragged on.

"The problem is people confuse eloquence with intelligence. That's what this is," remarked Gary Balser, a campaign volunteer from Hilliard.

When Obama asserted he would cut more than he would spend, Mindy Blackwell, attending with a daughter who is a first-time voter, couldn't hold back: "He's so lying! How can he stand up there and lie like that?"

And when Obama said he's for nuclear power, there were shouts of "liar!"

"He is a consummate liar," said Sheila Bello of the Catholic Coalition for McCain-Palin.

But when McCain started chewing on Obama for taking campaign contributions from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, there was applause and exhortations to "hit him!"

Adamo said she is backing McCain because "he's going to be a president that our allies trust and our enemies fear."

Obama, on the other hand "is hanging around with terrorists, avowed terrorists."

"We will work our fingers to the bone to make sure America is educated about this," Adamo promised.

The self-described "pro-life" Catholic mother of five questions Obama's stance in favor of abortion rights. Noting a disproportionate number of women who get abortions are black, she wondered, "Where is his pride in his people?"

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"his people?"
"his people?"
As a Catholic, I'm offended by the words and behavior of these wingnut Catholics. Their judgmental epithets are as un-Christian as you can get.

I believe this ad is parts of the bigger convention "documentary" on Obama.

I can't get the damn video to work for me - I've tried two browsers.

Anyone?

Was film invented yet?

j/k

It's a good ad and just in the nick of time, because they definitely have ramped up the slime machine. If any of you caught the Jerome Corsi piece, where he was arrested in Kenya yesterday, you don't have to imagine what he was trying to dig up over there!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/ap_on_re_af/af_kenya_obama_author_detained

:-)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NQx6spIBb5E

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XFBv8bgHgfQ

And this time when we say "Bring It On" we're not wearing a phony flight suit.

Mission be will accomplished Nov. 4

"Sarah Palin represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party". David Brooks.

Watch him say it, and much more, pluse read how he praised Senator Obama's intellect, etc.

Click it on up please. Thanks.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/10/david-brooks-sarah-palin-repre.php

The next AD should be one on Biden and shown in highly concentrated Catholic/White Areas!

Or else more to drink!

From:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/10/fear-and-loathing-in-town-hall.html

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Fear and Loathing in the Town Hall: A Predictive Fantasy

(The camera looks at the hall from above, into the hall, from the POV of the stage. Red meat has been hung from the walls and rafters, along with dollar bills which, upon closer inspection, are prop money.

The crowd is seated. They are strangely quiet. Their manner is that between those who are waiting for their instructions, post-op surgical recoverees, and post-war survivors. They are slightly slumped, in the same posture.

The candidates enter from opposite sides of the rear of the stage and walk to their podiums. The crowd rises as one and cheers with a loud, aggressive fervor reflective of their desperation.
Obama is standing tall in stride, looking a bit overcome by the experience, although genuine. McCain is smiling--his cheerful public grimace, although there is some genuine pleasure. His eyes have the slightest glaze of a gradually oncoming fog.)

MODERATOR: Tonight is a different format--one where you, the public, can ask your questions directly to the candidates. None of the questions have been screened in advance, and the candidates have been given no advance notice of what the questions, or who the questioners, might be. And with that, we begin. Our first question:

CITIZEN 1: My name is Jan, I'm from Murfreesboro? I've been watching the news, and I'm scared. I can't say that I've listened much about the stock market before? But I know that it's going down, and that's bad. I don't know what's going to happen to my job, or my house, or my kids. My question is for Mr. McCain? What will you do to help us understand what is going on, and to make it clear just what you will do about it?

(Crowd applauds vigorously as Jan sits down with a bit of embarrassment).

MCCAIN: (Holding the top of the rostrum with both hands and smiling): Well, first, I want to welcome each of you here tonight. You know, I know what each of you are feeling. I think that each of you must be scared--as I am, of not verifying myself in my father's and my grandfather's eyes. But, that's not so important today--or, at least saying it isn't. What is most important is to appear that I understand an economy that just months ago I said that I had little understanding of at all. I want to win. I need it, frankly, as a way of overcoming my own personal horrors and demons, of overcoming the anger that was bestowed and thrust, unwillingly, upon me. And that's why I'm still willing, even as the sharpest edges of mental function fade, to propel myself through this mass of insult. I understand how to respond to insult. With anger. And impulse. And that's what I'll bring to the White House, come January of 2009.

(Crowd applauds vigorously)

MODERATOR: The next question is for Senator Obama.

CITIZEN 2: Thanks. My name is Ross, from Shreveport. First-time caller, long-time listener. My question is: Senator Obama, it's not an error that you were given the middle name "Barack". We know that that is the same name of the murderous. Communist leader of Iran--and that's no accident. (A slight murmur from the crowd. The moderator looks vaguely stunned, but does not interrupt). Now, when you were going to Russia, with Bill Ayers, and dodging the draft--just like William Jefferson Clinton--(speaking more quickly now, more aggressively, turning to the crowd)--why weren't you here at home, saving our banks from the Liberals and the Socialists who want to take our money away from us and just give it to the terrorists?

SARAH PALIN: (Poking her head out from the wings, with a big smile): You betcha'!

(She withdraws).

OBAMA: Well. First of all, I also want to welcome you all here tonight. You know, I know that this is a difficult time. Many of you are worried about your jobs, your families, your homes. There are times that test a man's soul, and every woman's as well. And I know that this may be one of those times. I can understand why you would be frightened, even angry at what this nation has done. But we are a nation that has risen up in adversity even in the best of times, we found our strength, and honor, and courage, our ability to work as one, when faced with the most difficult situations. And I want to call on each of you, in that spirit of patriotic sacrifice, to join with me in that effort in the days ahead.

(Silence. Then applause, as the recognition of actual thought begins to spread through the crowd. It swells, and finally, subsides).

MODERATOR: The next question is for Senator McCain.

CITIZEN 3 (He is a man who appears to be in his early 40's wearing blue jeans that are stiff and obviously brand-new. They are perfectly creased. He is wearing a tight fitting, also obviously new T-Shirt that says "Average American...And Black With Rage!" beneath which is an American flag. He is wearing black wing-tip shoes. ). Senator McCain, I'm just an average American, just an average Joe, just your Average Joe-Sixpack (Blackberry begins ringing)...Oh...
excuse me...just...a...sec...my boss's phone...(whispering tensely into phone:) "No...I said sell. Sell. Yes, the entire portfolio. No, not Ghanan timber, for god's sake, gold, the lot of it. Jesus H....(tucks Blackberry back into pants pocket and then readjusts his stance to that of average Joe, slumping to one side again and changing his voice back to it's original tenor). Like I said, just an average Joe Sixpack. And I'm wonderin'. I heard what Mr. Hussein just said about "rising up", and I'm wonderin' if that's exactly what he wants to do! Oh, sure, he wants us to band together to rise up--where have we heard that before? Socialists! That's what they do! (crowd begins to murmur, and in the rising heat, the smell of the fresh meat begins to waft faintly through the hall). Rise up! That's what he wants to do! Well, we need to rise up! Against those kind of Socialist, Communist, Fascist, Atheist, Marxist policies! (the crowd is talking, some nodding their heads). And so what I want to ask you, Sen. McCain (crowd quiets), as an average everyday American, is this: What is it like, being a fighter pilot and all, when you know that Barack Hussein was out there, palling around with his Communist friends?

MCCAIN: Well, my friend--and by that, I mean that all of you are my friends--I'm glad you asked. Not everyone has had the luxury of gaining an education merely on the basis of their own talent, or the opportunity to travel the world learning how to be separate from important family members without their having significant pull, or to be able to experience the variety of foods that one has the chance to consume when they are paid for by the State. And, I can say that, in that way, I haven't been quiet as lucky. But I will say this--I will not look such fortune in the face and say: 'Fine, I'll work on education with the Bill Ayers of this world', "I'll be at the top of my class at Harvard", when I can be down, down there with you at the bottom! I know what it's like to be at the bottom when I've had all the opportunities--and I want to share that experience with those of you who have had none. You're angry. I'm angry. We have that in common. Let's be angry together, satisfied that, for another for four years, we've put those who have the arrogance to think for extended periods in their place, content in knowing that we're right--even if we're wrong.

CITIZEN 4: Hiya. My name is George, from Midland, altho' some would say Kennebunkport, heh, heh. I have a question for ya, John, and it's this. Listen: I'm goin' to be out of a job soon. Oil futures aren't lookin' that good, and I've got to tell ya', I didn't have too much luck there in the first place. So I'd like to ask ya, one flyin' man to another--what do you think I oughta do?

PALIN: (emerges from wings with purposeful strides to McCain's podium): I've got to take this one, John. Mr. Bush, if you can't figure out what you want to do after you leave and we move in, take a little time off, and then you come right up to Alaska. They love hunting just like you--and you can fly, you can learn to do it from a plane! The pipeline's big enough for any number of mistakes. So you come up here when you're finished--we've got plenty of bars with plenty of bowls of nuts and plenty of televisions right on Wasilla Main street--we'll take care of you right!

(Bush smiles and sits, crowd applauds, Palin, smiling and waving, exits).

CITIZEN 5: Well, look. This is a serious question. I'm John, from Carpenter. It's for both of you. I've got two kids, 4 and 6, a boy and a girl--so sweet. You know. My wife, she was working for the WaMu branch, center of town. It's closing next week. She's been looking in the ads, the newspapers, online--nothing. It's all she can do to keep a smile on her face for the kids. Myself, I built a commerical trucking business from the ground up. Sixteen years. Sweat everyday, grease on my hands, I can never get it out. We were never rich, but I made a good living. I didn't know about investing--who does, you're not born with it! Anyway, I went to an investment advisor, it seemed like the safe thing to do, protect the kids, plan for the future, not use my own dumb head (smiles). Well, he was so smart, and he was so sure, and he had it all planned out. And it looked so impressive on paper. Now--all of a sudden--it's gone. Everything is changing. It's changing so quickly. It seems like nobody--nobody knew. Not even the people who were supposed to! Everybody was talkin', makin noise, thinkin' of one thing: Themselves, themselves, themselves. Never worrying to think about someone else, about the future, about the next moment.

Well, now the next moment is here. And I wanna know--what are the two of you really going to do about it?

(The room is quiet as his last word echoes in the hall. The raw meat is rocking, slowly in the air, and the paper bills are gently fluttering). You can see Palin in profile, standing in the wings, holding her chin in her hand. The two candidates stare straight ahead, holding the podium. They are silent).

Cite:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/10/fear-and-loathing-in-town-hall.html

Borkaw was a bit on edge last night and know i know why. Apparently the ratings for MTP is tanking since he took over.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10082008/tv/tim_pickins_132595.htm

It never hurts to be reminded of Obama's remarkable story, but how sad he must do this in response to racist smears/lies by a major American party's candidates for president & vice-president. For the best stories & commentary on the McShames & the presidential election (including, of course, some from TPM) go to RealityChex.com at http://www.realitychex.com

I am watching Michelle Obama on CNN...She is as classy as her husband...