Is the Obama campaign out to lunch? Just wondering. I said the same thing 4 years ago replacing

[MidwestTransplant]

Kerry with Obama. Hammered and defined during the summer and fuc*d in the fall.

Unbelieveable. They are arrogant if they think they can let this all go unanswered.

[babylonsister]

1. "They are arrogant." Turn off your tee vee; you sound like 'them'. nt

[MidwestTransplant]

6. You sound like "them" taking half quotes.

[ProSense]

12. From the end of 2006 through the early part of this year, all you heard

was how everyone was different from and better than Kerry at campaigning. Obama is the only one left standing, and now the cries are that he's the same as Kerry.

Kerry ran a great campaign. You can see from the comments about Obama how much second guessing goes on.

[LaurenG]

2. What happened?

:shrug:

[sharp_stick]

3. McCain has given them so much ammo

they have to start hammering him IMO.

McLame and his minions are guilty of flip-flopping on energy, on taxes, on lying about Obama and the Obama campaign and then guilty about lying about lying about Obama.

Steve, the fucking dirtbag, Schmidt is in full on Rove protege mode running Gramps campaign and Obama's folks need to get off the ground already, it's not like their short of cash.

[Muttocracy]

4. did you hear him in Missouri today? he kicked butt and took on McCain quite well. nt

[sharp_stick]

9. Honestly no, I haven't

the media that I've been following hasn't bothered to cover it because they've got Milbank yapping about Obama's hubris and some tool at the NYT talking about how pathetic a Professor he was in Chicago.

Don't forget that the media were told my McLame that they had to be a lot harder on Obama because McSame was feeling left out and wouldn't invite them to another BBQ unless they got in line right quick.

Totally pathetic media coverage today, totally fucking pathetic.

Obama, IMO has to start putting out ads to get some coverage, they aren't going to bother picking up his town halls anymore I guess.

[JaneQPublic]

15. Where did you hear him? MSNBC only showed pictures while talking over him.

I tried the other news channels and the C-SPANs, but no coverage of O. in MO.

[babylonsister]

25. I saw a bit of the town hall meeting on m$nbc w/Obama before

they cut away.

[Muttocracy]

30. off Obama site video feed, posted on DU:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6559549

Maybe they'll put it up on his campaign website? :shrug:

[Thrill]

5. Yes. Out to Lunch. When is the last time you heard Obama compare McCain to Bush??

[babylonsister]

23. Today.

Obama says McCain is the risky pick
Posted: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:54 PM by Mark Murray

From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli


SPRINGFIELD, MO -- Obama returned to the campaign trail today, guns blazing.

Responding to a barrage of attacks in recent weeks, he linked McCain to the Bush economic policies and claimed that it was the Republican nominee who was the “risky” choice in November.

“Nobody thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me,” he told more than a thousand people at a high school here. "'He's risky' -- that's the argument... It's like, 'Well, we don't have very much to offer but he's risky.' And let me just say, it's true that change, change is hard. Change isn't easy. And the question you have to ask yourself is, 'What's more risky?’”

He added, "We are in a time right now where it is too risky no to change. It is risky to keep on doing what we are doing, to accept the tired status quo."

Obama focused almost exclusively on the economy during his half-hour opening remarks, including the high-energy costs. He challenged the notion that drilling was the answer to the crisis, saying the effort may not have an impact for 10 years, if at all.

“I know gas prices have gone down, it's grand bargain now $3.95,” he said. “Earlier George Bush was on TV talking about his energy plan. Now think about it -- where has Bush been over the last eight years? Where was John McCain over the last 25?”

more...

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/30/1234432.aspx

[blm]

7. So, instead of FURTHERING Kerry's counter to the swifts and his challenge to Bush

to stop hiding behind them, you chose back then to further the corpmedia lie that Kerry never countered the swifts?


Go to DU Research Forum and you will have the facts AS THEY HAPPENED at your fingertips, and you can relieve yourself of the burden of carrying corpmedia's water for them.

[MidwestTransplant]

18. I do know he ignored them for ages. Regardless, the media was complicit in the attacks.

[blm]

27. He did NOT. Go to DU Research Forum and avail yourself of the facts and stop protecting corpmedia

by ignoring their complicit role in what actually happened.

[KittyWampus]

31. If Kerry countered them & mediawhores didn't cover it IT WAS KERRY"S FAULT FOR NOT DOING SOMETHING

else to get their attention.

Stop blaming the corpmedia. They are what they are. It's the reality. Was that way BEFORE Kerry and after him.

[blm]

37. Challenging Bush to publicly debate their services should've been news for over a WEEK

especially since it was in front of the FIREFIGHTERS CONVENTION who had endorsed him. That had NEVER been done before.

And you want to claim that some calculated GIMMICK would have been met with welcome cameras and mics that a speech to Firefighters (post 9-11) did NOT get?

Would Obama BE the Dem nominee today if corpmedia DELIBERATELY ignored every speech he made to counter Rev Wright? If they HAD chosen to dig in and not cover those speeches.....

Kerry gave us PLENTY of ammo when he made that speech - the Dem pundit class, the barely existent left media and the left blogosphere did NOTHING to further Kerry's attacks on the swifts and Bush after that speech.

[politicasista]

38. good post n/t

[ellacott]

8. The media is starting to be more critical of McCain

There are a number of journalists who are setting the story straight regarding the visit to the German Hospital. It is showing that McCain lied.

I think they are gathering ammunition(Actually, I'm hoping this is the case).

[sharp_stick]

11. Really

and after only about 5 days of giving the old prick the benefit of the doubt on his lies. It's about time.

[ellacott]

19. Yes it is about time

[MidwestTransplant]

17. Damage is done.

[ellacott]

21. I'm not sure if the damage really is done

Obama' team has plenty they can use against McCain.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. You're saying Obama is uppity?

Why do you think Obama is uppity?

[sharp_stick]

14. You people

really need to chill out.

:spank: :hide: :P

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. The guy attacked Obama...

and said people need to go on the offensive against people who attack Obama...

So...

:shrug:

[book_worm]

13. they are not letting things go unanswered and it hasn't been "all summer"

people have got to stop panicing. It's going to be a close election.

[MidwestTransplant]

20. It's not about letting things go unsanswered. It's about staying on defense and letting the other

guy define you.

Incidentally Rove has joined the campaign. Notice any similar tactics?

[Ryano42]

22. Game over.

All is lost. :sarcasm:

Hmm...and just last week we were surfing the high of Obama's world tour...maintain a more even strain please... :hug:

[MidwestTransplant]

24. That's not what I am saying but look back at this post on Oct 5th and see

which candidate is seen and portrayed the patriot answering his call to duty and the other that is a cocky, arrogant neophyte in it for personal glory. That's the image being created now. Hopefully it won't be the imagine in Oct. If it is, it's because O's team hasn't fought back.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

26. Just because it happened on the T.V. doesn't make it true...

Obama has hammered back; it's just that the T.V. didn't show this to you.

And by the way, where the fuck are the Democrats? Why aren't they aiding Obama? Does he have to do this all by himself?

[JBoris]

28. Thats exactly what I want to know. I see Wes Clark defending Obama, thats about it. nt

[Whisp]

29. don't we have enough on the right and the media calling Obama arrogant

and now you have to jump on the word bandwagon too?

Unbelieveable is right.
cool your jets and think before you post.

or maybe you did.

[MidwestTransplant]

32. Apparently you didn't read the OP. I said his campaign is arrogant if they don't

feel they need to go after McCain. It's clear that McCain will lie, cheat and steal to win. They have Rove on board and the guy who made the ad against Harold Ford. Either the campaign is arrogant or naive.

Read a little closer next time.

[Whisp]

35. and who the F are you to categorize the campaign as either 1. arrogant or 2. naive.

actually i don't even know who you are calling arrogant here. I assumed it was the obama camp - but with that clarity you have, perhaps you are calling McCain arrogant and naive.

suppose I do have a reading problem after all.
and you one about clear communication

[Medusa]

33. They are no doubt exhausted

to be fair, the Kerry campaign didn't have to run two damn years to get the nomination. So they probably are a bit on the slow side this week. But they better not let this little mini-vacay go on for another week. Vigilance!

[babylonsister]

34. Have you seen this from today?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5RvTAr79lE

[Gabi Hayes]

36. sister.....great work, as always. I saw about fifteen second clip of this

a few moments ago on Shuster. he prefaced that by calling his fast track energy policy disingenuous, repeated that several times for a dem congresswoman. did NOT mention that McCain's drilling plank would take years to have any effect. the congresswoman did, but was no where near emphatic enough about what a bunch of BS McCain's plan is.

[Cha]

39. Contact the Obama campaign and ask them "if they're out to lunch?"

http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/contact2

[depakid]

40. For all who are offended by the term arrogant:

What word would you apply to folks who fail to take into account hard learned lessons from the past because they think they're so "different" and "better" that they don't have to play hardball politics to win?

Hubris comes to mind....

[MidwestTransplant]

44. Thank you. People here think that if they don't see something is a problem, the rest of America

won't. The RW attack machine knows what it is doing.

[lojasmo]

41. "Arrogant" = "uppity"

Stop with the RW memes.

Also, thanks for your concern.

Piss up a rope.

[Doctor_J]

42. It's time to start running ads with McSame along side Herbert the Pervert

from Family Guy.



and replaying "That's not change we can believe in" on a loop

[RamboLiberal]

43. Revenge is a dish best served in black and white

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPPLSHKH0h4

Obama campaign serves up a juicy snack!

[Emit]

45. If they think they can let WHAT go unanswered?