Seems this “mistake” worked out really well for Obama after all, eh?

Key word : “early”

Obama was tricked into attacking McCain in his “rhetorically soaring” acceptance speech, making him look “mean” in front of millions of undecided. The “mean” comment was an instant feedback given by a hotel maid to a Dem operative.

Remember the pieces of misinformation: McCain bought ad times to address Obama during Obama's acceptance speech, and the leak that McCain would name his running mate at 8:00 pm that night to steal Obama's thunder?

Well, McCain praised Obama for a job well done, Obama attaked McCain making him “mean” in front of millions of audience. Every MSM outlet speculated about the “leak” that never came.

Then Obama “attacked” Palin as pig with lipstick. Whether he meant it or not, when the terms “slim”, “community organizer” could be construed as thinny veiled racial remarks, then … “Obama is rattled by McCain's vp pick, Palin gets into Obama's head, Obama acts like a fifth grade bully…”

I think Obama should, from now on, preach his changey hopey thing with concrete plans, and let his surrogates in AP, Time, Newsweek, WaPo, NYT, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN do his smearing.

That is your asessment based on what? People aren't quite sure what to make of a “scholar” talking to them in such a fashion when they can't actually read any of his scholarly work to help understand his thought processes that underpin his positions. Shouldn't a “constitutional scholar” actually have some degree of scholarly writings which forces them to defend his/her positions in a rigorous academic invironment? Otherwise he just looks like someone who is very unsure of himself or someone who is looking for a way not to answer the question.

The fact that he has no paper trail tells me that he IS unwilling to rigorously defend a postion that is unambiguously declared in a format where assessments can be made on indisputable concrete declarations in the format required to be taken seriously in academia. If that is the case (i.e. my assessment of him), then why should I or anyone whom he is trying to convince take the meandering answers seriously?

Are you talking to yourself?

(this could be a case of Greenwaldian sockpuppetry) http://wuzzadem.typepad.com/wuz/2006/07/greenpu…

Are you talking to yourself?

(this could be a case of Greenwaldian sockpuppetry) http://wuzzadem.typepad.com/wuz/2006/07/greenpu…

Are you talking to yourself?

(this could be a case of Greenwaldian sockpuppetry) http://wuzzadem.typepad.com/wuz/2006/07/greenpu…

Are you talking to yourself?

(this could be a case of Greenwaldian sockpuppetry) http://wuzzadem.typepad.com/wuz/2006/07/greenpu…

We, Democrats sitting on the sidelines need to cheer the troops and provide encouragement every step of the way.

We are gonna win this thing. Let there be no question about it.

How sayest thou?

We, Democrats sitting on the sidelines need to cheer the troops and provide encouragement every step of the way.

We are gonna win this thing. Let there be no question about it.

How sayest thou?

We, Democrats sitting on the sidelines need to cheer the troops and provide encouragement every step of the way.

We are gonna win this thing. Let there be no question about it.

How sayest thou?

We, Democrats sitting on the sidelines need to cheer the troops and provide encouragement every step of the way.

We are gonna win this thing. Let there be no question about it.

How sayest thou?

Study the state by state races and rejoice a little. With Obama being an African American, every Black, White and other ethic groups knew that this was going to be a close race.

If we truly believe that Democrats can win, we need to encourage each other to get out the vote. We need to man the phones more now than ever. True Democrats do not conceive of defeat. Once you begin to believe that we can be defeated, we will be defeated.

Pick up your head and let's get busy and win this damn thing.

nbnrhi60624

Study the state by state races and rejoice a little. With Obama being an African American, every Black, White and other ethic groups knew that this was going to be a close race.

If we truly believe that Democrats can win, we need to encourage each other to get out the vote. We need to man the phones more now than ever. True Democrats do not conceive of defeat. Once you begin to believe that we can be defeated, we will be defeated.

Pick up your head and let's get busy and win this damn thing.

nbnrhi60624

Study the state by state races and rejoice a little. With Obama being an African American, every Black, White and other ethic groups knew that this was going to be a close race.

If we truly believe that Democrats can win, we need to encourage each other to get out the vote. We need to man the phones more now than ever. True Democrats do not conceive of defeat. Once you begin to believe that we can be defeated, we will be defeated.

Pick up your head and let's get busy and win this damn thing.

nbnrhi60624

Should Obama be punished for going to Harvard? This guy is a hard worker. Look at his modest background! He drunk all night like some of my classmates do but knew what he wanted in life. His story is an american story. If you are one of those people Fineman and his media friends ridicule as “hard working white or blue collar”, it's up to you if you want another Bush .

Fineman is cynical. He is one of those people who believe the Clintons are the alpha and omega of american politics. It's a generational thing if you listen to people like Chris Matthews, Tom Brokaw etc. Let's turn the page right now.

I'm only worried that the Republicans are gonna steal this thing in Ohio. MI, PA and WI is locked. VA looks good.

Should Obama be punished for going to Harvard? This guy is a hard worker. Look at his modest background! He drunk all night like some of my classmates do but knew what he wanted in life. His story is an american story. If you are one of those people Fineman and his media friends ridicule as “hard working white or blue collar”, it's up to you if you want another Bush .

Fineman is cynical. He is one of those people who believe the Clintons are the alpha and omega of american politics. It's a generational thing if you listen to people like Chris Matthews, Tom Brokaw etc. Let's turn the page right now.

I'm only worried that the Republicans are gonna steal this thing in Ohio. MI, PA and WI is locked. VA looks good.

Should Obama be punished for going to Harvard? This guy is a hard worker. Look at his modest background! He drunk all night like some of my classmates do but knew what he wanted in life. His story is an american story. If you are one of those people Fineman and his media friends ridicule as “hard working white or blue collar”, it's up to you if you want another Bush .

Fineman is cynical. He is one of those people who believe the Clintons are the alpha and omega of american politics. It's a generational thing if you listen to people like Chris Matthews, Tom Brokaw etc. Let's turn the page right now.

I'm only worried that the Republicans are gonna steal this thing in Ohio. MI, PA and WI is locked. VA looks good.

With his funding advantage, Obama is making sure that McCain has to continue to spend precious dollars protecting states that swung for Bush in 2004 but are anything but strongholds. Maybe someone can try to explain to Fineman how the electoral college works. I believe the last polls I saw showed a 57 electoral vote advantage for Obama, not counting McCain's quickly fading convention bounce.

Failing with the Clintons? Is Fineman still flogging the PUMA meme? I think I saw more obvious discontent within the Republican ranks, especially in regards to McCain's VP pick. Still republicans do a good job at towing the line and have managed to quellpublic displays of inaffection. (They need to watch out for open mikes though).

In terms of failing with an overarching policy idea, if its such a failure, why has McCain decided that he needed to adopt it in order to confuse the undecided voters? This is before we even begin to question the ridiculous notion of a party reforming itself. The American people aren't particularly stupid.

“Professor speak”, is this code for “elitist”? We are supposed to disparage Obama because he is a constitutional scholar? Doesn't talk in simplistic sound bites often enough? (I say often because of the recent lipstick/pig comments, which frankly were brilliant and although an obvious trap, McCain waded right into it.)

In terms of failing to attack McCain early enough, he must be referring to the lack of dirty, outright false attacks from the Obama campaign, which we've seen coming from McCain. I am not talking about the web zeitgeist but actual ” I'm John McCain and I approved this message(s)”. Obama is chipping away at McCain's maverick status (90% with Bush policy) and he responds quickly and confidently when he is mis-characterized by the McCain campaign. Fineman just appears to not want to acknowledge it. Even though, in my eyes, McCain's attacks have been glaringly misleading, false or outright lies its apparent that he is willing to reach for anything he can, even if they appear preposterous to the media and the American people.