Obama/Biden must focus on the double talk and outright lies being spouted by McCain/ Palin. She lied about the eBay plane sale, about the Bridge to Nowhere, about her love for earmarks when mayor, about Troopergate; It is doubletalk to say McCain fought Republicans when he voted with Bush 93% of time on all major issues including war, taxes and healthcare. The Rove people are experts at using propaganda techniques like thr Big Lie, but Obama/Biden miust hammer home the truth: McCain is a Bush Republican: "You can't throw the bums out if you are one of the bums". Obama received the excellent advice that to win it is not whether you can take a punch that counts, it is whether or not you can give one. In the waning weeks ahead, Obama/Biden must follow three tracks: (1) Expose the McCain/Palin lies, (2)Get out the Obama/Biden policy message (3) Deliver hard direct blows at McCain/Palin as fake mavericks playing the American Idol game. In American politics, candidates to who don't fight back with iron fists lose to Swift Boaters and Willie Horton ads and Rove's specialty, The Big Lie.

Sarah Palin: Teaching the socialists how to field dress a donkey!

Obama's problems are not with his own media team (re: earlier post). The MSM is one of his problems. They have been so over the top in the tank for Obama that people do not trust them to cover Mccain/Palin fairly.

Obama and Biden both tried sexism and it backfired. Dem women I know are disgusted with the entire election...so disgusted the are crossing over to vote for a woman.

I love these McPalin supporter, Obama is a wimp if he doesn't attack back and he is hypocrite if he does. The facts are clear, McCain and Palin have lied, they will cheat and they will steal to win this election. There is one and only one reason you do that, you know you can't do it any other way. All of this crap they spew tells me that I've picked the right ticket to support. If the republicans are throwing rocks at you, you must be doing something right.

Danny

Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling.

They're calling Obama back to his Chicago thugs!

ETHICAL QUESTIONS: Bloomberg: “Palin's office approved a state job for a friend and campaign aide with whom she shared a land investment, financial records and interviews over the past two weeks show. She hired a former lobbyist for a pipeline company to help oversee a multibillion-dollar deal with that same company. She named a police chief accused of harassment to head the state police. And she sent campaign e-mails on her city hall account while serving as mayor of Wasilla -- conduct for which she later turned in an oil commissioner on ethics charges.
“These incidents raise ‘some serious questions about her judgment and serious questions about her standards of ethics in public service,'’ said James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies in Washington. Suggesting a real estate investment partner for a job ‘may be acceptable in Alaska; it would not be acceptable in Washington, D.C., a place whose norms she wants to

Palin - America's woman. She's been there done that and most American woman recognize that fact.

Still, there are some ugly women and women who can't make it so they align themselves to the party of victims -- standing proudly next to PITA, the greenies and those who claim their grandfathers voted for FDR.

Posted by: katherine | Sep 12, 2008 2:21:51 PM

Sure, the so-called MSM has been "kind" to Barack Obama.

What you seem to forget that the MSM has been equally kind of McCain.

McCain himself said of the "liberal media"
(I paraphrase)

"The Media? They are my base."

As to Sarah Palin? Most of the discussion in the MSM seems to have been restricted to discussion the over-heated public reaction to her selection as McCain's VP.

Republicans - who know nothing about her record - are falling over backwards singing her praises.

Democrats - who know a little more, but still little about her actual record, distort that record, and otherwise exaggerate her weaknesses and shortcomings.

What we, the public, is left to discuss is the inflated hype.

We are NOT discussing Sarah Palin's actual record, we are not discussing Sen. Obama's actual record or policies, we are NOT discussing John McCain's policies.

We're running around like chickens with our heads cut off talking about lipstick on pigs, is Obama a secret Muslim, the number of planes McCain crashed (it was 3 not five, and none of them where his fault), McCain's P.O.W. record, whether Sarah Palin wants to force the nation to teach creation in public schools (she does not), whether Sarah Palin thinks that the war in Iraq is God's will (she never said so, despite Gibson's quote), and now we are being asked to care whether or not John McCain knows how to use eMail?

I could care less.

and on, and on....

We, the public are being played for fools by both campaigns, and all the media does is report THE HYPE, the rival ads, the fabrications, misstatements, and other nonsense.

Obama was to gentle when he said this garbage is catnip to the press, its not catnip, its CRACK! And we, the public are being asked to play along.

Can we return the discussion to the real world...please?

Palin is not america's woman. She's conservative's woman.

I am amazed that a simple phrase like "Lipstick on a Pig" made by Barack Obama has been take so far out of context and twisted to sound like he was making reference to Sarah Palin.

In June 1998 while speaking at a republican dinner John McCain made the following remarks:

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

This was not a lipstick remark taken out of context. On 10/11/2007 John McCain used "Lipstick on a pig" in a direct reference to Hillary Clinton and has done so on two other documented occasions.

Do we really want a person of such despicable character as president??

LANNY EDWARDS: Sexist Pig!

Unfortunately negative ads do work. Obama has been trying to stay above the fray and concentrate on the issues. Taking the high, ethical and truthful road. Given the onslaught of negative smear ads launched by the McCain campaign however, Obama is going to have to start fighting back.

Should he say that McCain called his wife a c*nt

or maybe say he fathered a black child.

what about the keating 5

oh yeah how about voting against MLK Day

no low road for us.

we will leave that to mccain (wink)

Hedley Lamar

Obama appears above it all but he sends his underlings and bloggers out to spew hate, lies and innuendos. He's a monster. He's not what he says he is. He's a terrorist who wants to destroy America.

The lipstick on a pig fiasco is proof that the McCain campaign will distort anything they can to make a fake controversy. If you watched the entire 25 minute speech by Obama, you clearly understand that he was talking about policy, not Palin. In NO WAY did he call Palin a pig, and McCain knows damn well he didn't. Come to think of it, McCain and Palin do kind of remind me of Kermit and Miss Piggy!

LOL, Rodney. How is life in La La Land?

Obama’s campaign claimed the reason MO wasn’t at the 9/11 ceremony yesterday was that she was back in Chicago for her children’s FIRST WEEK of school. Yet another LIE. On Sep. 10th, she spent the day speaking at a roundtable in Fishers, Indiana. And on the evening of Sept 10th she was speaking at the Baptist Convention in Cincinnati. Her children’s FIRST WEEK of school didn’t stop her from attending these 2 events!! Clearly, she hates America.

Headley Lamar

you beat me to it. you are reading my mind

rodney is stuck on stupid.

What happened to McCain not wanting this to be a negative campaign. He knows he can't win on the issues so he sold his soul to the devil and allowed the negative and false attacks. If people aren't focused on the issues that's good news for McCain.

Obama is goint to get tough? Sharper? "..We Will Respond With Speed And Ferocity" - this is so funny. How is O'bummer going to get tough and say I will raise you raxes and you will be enthusiastic about it! I hope I don't miss this. What time? What channel will Obama be on? I hope its on you-tube.

BTW, its official, Obama is the real bridge to nowhere!