It'll do for now but is the Obama campaign ready to let go of all of the post-partisan-candidate bullshit?

McCain is running as the Republican candidate. Ain't no doubt 'bout it.

Now we need to know if Obama is running as the post-partisan-candidate or the Democratic candidate.

What do you think?

Posted at August 6, 2008 12:40 AM in response to Barack in Trouble? No! Really! Everything is Fine!

...McCain is continuously driving the political conversation...

Yes he is. And it's gonna leave a mark.

Posted at August 5, 2008 11:03 PM in response to Tired.

No, they aren't really fighting back and this decision...

...the Obama campaign is telling progressive donors to withhold funds from "outside" 527 organizations...

...was really ill advised. The 527s serve several purposes..."fill a space". The youth organizing that these groups do on an ongoing basis is vital to the long term health of the party. Don't dry up their funding sources.

Also, somebody needs to be throwing a few elbows back at McCain right now while the Obama campaign seems to have opted for the "we'll save the gut punches for post convention" strategy. Nothing the matter with that but when you've neutered organizations that like to throw a few elbows of their own, then you wind up merely responding to (ie ducking) the elbows McCain is throwing. No response looks weak.

The campaign apparently thinks they're the only ones that know how to win this election. And shutting down the 527s...

...reinforces their message of rejecting the partisanship of the past and don't need anyone muddying their message with negative ads. They have a large enough volunteer base geographically dispersed enough to run their own 50-state field campaign.

That is arrogant. They have orgs with energized members ready to go to the streets and airwaves in their own ways with the basic campaign message yet the campaign implies they'll just tell everybody what to do. Not only is it arrogant it's fucking stupid. They don't have all of the answers.

They need to take the lid off of the jar and let a little air in before they suffocate in their own arrogance.

Posted at August 5, 2008 10:01 PM in response to Barack in Trouble? No! Really! Everything is Fine!

I think they may be taking a long view, refraining fom counterattacks now in order to stake out the moral high ground from which to later strip the "honorable" label off McCain.

Then you must be drunk. Or stupid. I decline to make the call. How did the rope-a-dope strategy work out for our effete Frenchy windsurfer candidate, Kerry, in 2004?

Posted at August 5, 2008 12:48 AM in response to Tired.

And to whatever dickhead it was who posted that script crap above, I would like to send you a hearty FUCK YOU! You are an asshole.

That script was originally posted by an Obama supporter, urban. He posted it more than once on this thread if you'd like to read it again. And again. So now you have the link you need to go tell him a hearty FUCK YOU! You are an asshole.

It's merely feeding Obama supporters what they hand out. I was actually glad to see it posted here because I'll admit to a temptation to copy it 3X and paste it to a bunch of Obama pom-pom shaking threads. I'm sure urban thought it was cute...then.

Posted at August 5, 2008 12:10 AM in response to Obama First Candidate Charged With Being "Too Presidential," and Some Numbers to Brighten Up Your Monday Morning

Time to go to Plan B. Just C&P the email here.

Posted at August 4, 2008 11:15 PM in response to McCain Gets Off Easy On Hardball

Please. McCain wasn't any more genuine back in 2000 than he is now. The dynamics of the republican primary back then required him to be 'Luke Skywalker trying to get off of the Death Star'. (Wonder if he'll reprise that one in the current campaign.?...NAH!) He'll play any role that fits the circumstances at the time.

Posted at August 4, 2008 10:44 PM in response to Tired.

I would agree with the premise that the Obama campaign led and clapped at the attack on the wholesale character assasination of Bill and Hillary Clinton, not to mention their supporters, during the primaries. As to whether Josh/TPM 'led' that, I can't say that I saw that here. I thought the staff played it fairly straight (with a lean to Obama) in their coverage. Just my opinion...

Posted at August 2, 2008 10:03 PM in response to Dear Josh Marshall - You Make No Sense Again

Book it, curt.

Kaine, Bayh and Biden are all non-starters. Good guys and glad to have them on the team and all but what do they bring? A lot of votes? Increased fundraising?

OTOH, didn't Obama say 'Hillary would be on anybody's short list' or words to that effect? She does bring votes and money(givers). Throw in 'heal the rift in the party'...how could they resist?

It's reality and, besides...it's box-office, baby. Obama would be crazy to name anyone but her.

Posted at July 31, 2008 6:55 PM in response to Don't count out Hillary just yet!

wwstaebler...you probably should just get over it. These tubes that make up the innernets are pretty wild and woolly.

Posted at July 29, 2008 11:54 PM in response to No More Ad Feminam