Comments on: Obama Raises Record-Breaking $66 Million In August: How Will He Use It?

By: Don Quijote

Don Quijote — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:41:48 +0000

According to 538.com, it's 248 electoral votes for Obama to 290 for McSame.

If Obama isn't at least 10 points ahead in any given state, the Bradley effect will overwhelm that lead.

By: vwcat

vwcat — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:49:35 +0000

What so many pundits, bloggers, ect., don't seem to realize is that Obama is doing what he did a year ago.
And is the key to how he beat Hillary and will McSame
obama has been spending all his time and resources building his ground game while the gop and McSame have been frittering away resources on playing silly little jr. high school games.
They think they can just energize their base without having any real ground game to get the vote out.
The same mistake Hillary made.
Now Obama has the big money, his ground game built and ready to go and is prepared for battle.
He doesn't pay that much attention to polls because so many of his voters are new registers, and they are not all college students. Many are disaffected voters who have not been voting lately.
He is doing some minor lashing back at Mcsame to keep the polling close to keep the hand wringers from jumping off a cliff. But, he will do what he always does.
Hit the rivals when the timing is just right.
anyone who paid attention last year would know this but, everyone seems to have forgotten the lessons of the primary and have reverted to the outdated conventional wisdom.
sigh..........

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:43:54 +0000

And I would talk about how McLame is alluding to adopting a mandatory draft.

Their illegal corporate war on Iraq and it's russian/chinese/iranian expected fallout is not our liability. If BigOil wants those resources that badly they can hire mercinaries and other professional fighters to get the job done. They can afford it. But no, they want our kids for free. Why is that? Better profit margin.

F that.

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:31:57 +0000

Actually, that computer ad wasn't as much of a waste as you think it is. People will care about whether or not the man uses a telegraph machine or a cellphone in this day and age. It speaks to the potential for other areas of his life to be behind the technology...

Which brings me to my next point....

Obama should invest HEAVILY in TV commercials with experts who speak out against McLame's energy policies and particularly how the economics of them don't pan out. One area to attack is the continual pumping (pardon the pun) of BigOil agendas in spite of what God himself (for those who are religious) is telling us about global warming being a dire threat. Fossil fuels will be the death of us. Just ask Galveston. They'll rebuild this year, but what about next and the one after?

Another point I would talk about is nuclear power. Obama is against it for good reason: Terrorist threats and radioactive poisoning of hundreds of miles for hundreds of years after a potential strike of just one tower. Meanwhile, nuclear power relies on steam to drive turbines. Yes, just steam. All that mining of uranium, waste, transport dangers, implementation, monitoring, reinforced containment and waste disposal issues of spent uranium all exist for just heating water to steam to run simple turbines.. There are other safer, and much cheaper ways of generating steam.

Did you know that nuclear is all about just producing simple steam? Well now you do. That's just one example of how scientific testimony could educate and shine the light on the defective GOP platforms currently being sugarcoated for blind digestion.

Information like this needs to be imparted en mass and in direct conflict with McLame's platforms one by one. He needs to be made to look the fool and so incompetant and old fashioned and last-century that only a fringe element will vote for him when Obama's commericals are played out.

If it was me, that's what I'd do. That and give Biden the boot and pick up Hillary. If he did that his ratings would go through the roof and he could go on cruise control all the way up to the election and beyond..

By: ChrisWWW

ChrisWWW — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:47:31 +0000

Didn’t you want to get votes from senior citizens — a group that includes many folks who don’t hover over computers or don’t even use them?

We need to get beyond these identity politics. We should want someone more qualified than ourselves to be president. We should want elites. Would you want to hire any old Joe off the street to give you legal advice or would you look for a qualified lawyer? How about when choosing an automechanic, or a heart surgeon?

Meanwhile McCain insults the intelligence of every voter in America day after day with his outrageous lies...