I'm sure Obama is so worried - NOT.
He's sticking to the plan they laid out. Calm and steady.
]]>"I know what fear feels like. ... I know what hopelessness feels like. ... I felt those things once before. I will never let them in again. I'm an American. And I choose to fight."
He felt those things "once" before? So he's telling us that since his POW years, he's never allowed himself to feel fear or hopelessness, and he never will. He will only fight. Fighting is his only answer to hopelessness and fear...and that's what makes him an American?
Wow. There's something demented and scary about that.
]]>But if I were President Obama, I would tell them both to go jump in a lake when Hillary asks to be on the Supreme Court (or senate majority leader)and Bill wants to be Secretary General of the U.N.
Too little, too late.
This might get into the don't-hire-a-maverick-as-executive thing, as well. McCain hasn't commanded, and the history he points to has involved following orders even at great personal cost. If he were rallying people behind a Buffett plan, the maverick "fight fight fight I know what it is to fight, to endure" might work. But they decided not to do policy proposals, so what is the greater strategy guiding our fight?
]]>When you say "Release the hounds, Barry"... what are you suggesting? At this stage of the campaign, what do you think Obama's strategy should be?
Just curious...
]]>Right. And I would say that without the context of who and what we are fighting for, "fighting" becomes a demented and scary concept. So too is the idea that you can't afford "to blink". These ideas lack sentiment and reasoning, and therefore seem reckless and dangerous.
]]>After the last debate, he should launch a relentless ad campaign against not just McCain but the Republican party. Trash their brand now so thoroughly that it will take them a decade to recover.
He should do this in presidential battleground states and in those states with close senatorial and congressional races. The money he has raked in now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and needs to be used, not just for winning the presidency, but for making it a successful presidency. The more he helps Democrats win now, the more loyalty he can count on over the next eight years, and the better for the Democratic Party as a whole.
]]>Mccain's campaign could use all the help it can get. Weren't they supposed to put out some major policy initiative today? Ooops. What's their message for today...and how many hours will it remain the same? Maybe he should have set up his campaign headquarters at his mansion in Sedona, instead of DC.
]]>McCain is in Virginia and North Carolina. NO Republican should have to be in VA and NC with 20 days to go in an election.
A BEATDOWN, I tell ya.
Show them the same kind of mercy they've shown Democrats - NONE.
]]>Also, even though we probably are uniquely hopeless in the Presidential race, it would really be nice to pretend otherwise and feel just a little love from the Democratic slate.
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