Oh! Oh! Here’s What Obama Should Do!

It’s amazing to me that we’re so invloved in the process that we tend to forget that 90% of America isn’t even paying attention yet. I’m anxious to see what the polls will show after the Democratic Convention.

Frank Rich had a good point in his article this past week as well.

Rich: What is widely known is the skin-deep, out-of-date McCain image. As this fairy tale has it, the hero who survived the Hanoi Hilton has stood up as rebelliously in Washington as he did to his Vietnamese captors. He strenuously opposed the execution of the Iraq war; he slammed the president’s response to Katrina; he fought the “agents of intolerance” of the religious right; he crusaded against the G.O.P. House leader Tom DeLay, the criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff and their coterie of influence-peddlers.

With the exception of McCain’s imprisonment in Vietnam, every aspect of this profile in courage is inaccurate or defunct.

We’ll see what the polls and pundits have to say a month from now under a little more McCain scrutiny.

Hell it amazes me that they are so into polls when the general doesn’t even really start for a little over 2 weeks yet. Just more of the corporate media wanting to shove elections down a throat much sooner than should be.

Good point Bob–I actually feel better b/c I have been so worked up the last 24 hours–everywhere I turn it’s Obama under the microscope in an unfair way…I agree–the media has artificially made this a tight race–any way he turns will be met with scrutiny. He should keep on keepin on, but I do believe if the media continues to reinforce the BBQ narratives, he will most likely lose. Do these people even care about the country? They can’t possibly keep doing this, can they? The truth does not have two sets of facts. George Bush’s policies have been a disaster on every front. McCain embraces every one of them to the point that he has reversed himself on many issues–why isn’t the media covering this? It really is stunning–I ca’;t wait for the presumptuous/”who does he think he is” chorus after his speech in a stadium–Rest assured, there will be a talking point that emerges from the DNC that the BBQers will adopt and pound away.I know this sounds funny, but I really think SNL will play a role in the same way they did when the correctly pointed out that Hillary was getting pounded and Obama was given softer treatment. The same thing is now happening to Obama (only much worse!)–he is getting pounded day after day with right wing narratives enabled by the MSM, and McCain is being completely IGNORED other than the fact that they keep telling us “we know our mavricky war hero…In other news, will the race card play a factor…blah blah blah”

I’m cautiously optimistic of late, but I still think it’s going to go well. After the convention though, I’d love to see some more video of Obama holding rallies where 50K people show up vs. McCain stumping at a diner with 5 sleepy patrons.We just need to turn out in numbers that rival the primaries’. We can’t let this one flip on 1000 votes in New Mexico or Ohio. It’s got to be a solid victory.

I’m glad everyone is so chipper. For the first time ever – McCain is winning.When will the democrats learn that attacks resonate and rebuttals just sound wimpy?QT

I am so fucking depressed!If idiots in this country vote for that disgusting old codger then they deserve what they fucking get!I am going crazy inside my head!HELP ME!

I’m glad everyone is so chipper. For the first time ever – McCain is winning.

According to who, QT?

Yeah, it certainly is depressing.Anyone know about Canada’s immigration laws? If (God, Allah, Buddha forbid) McCain pulls this out, think there will be any change to make them more stringent for American expats?It’s just shame that there is a very real possibility that Rove will get his dream of a permanent Republican majority. If not permanent, at least long enough for this country to fall into tatters and 2nd world status.It’s difficult to be optimistic these days, but we certainly have to try.I suppose it’s too early to call this and just have to wait it out and drink vodka (or your libation of choice).

I agree with you completely.One thing bothers me even more now than the “script” is that there is agreement that the Georgia-Russia thing was great for McCain. After the one McCain guy, maybe Black, saying Bhutto’s assassination helped McCain in NH and another such event would help him,why aren’t people questioning how incredible it is that McCain’s advisor is/was Georgia’s lobbyist? That seems like a big problem.I for one think those McCain people are perfectly capable of being involved in promoting Georgia’s aggression in order to create the situation and maybe get McCain elected. Georgia could follow the the plan feeling like McCain, if elected would get them what they want because of Scheunemann. It just stinks to me and I would expect it to warrant some discussion/checking out. Maybe I just missed it,but if I did then that means in my opinion there has not been nearly enough coverage.

I for one am really nervous about the most recent polls. We live in a country where the majority – I’m guessing the VAST majority – of citizens are what the media now calls “low information voters.” What that means is Teh Stupid. The right KNOWS all it has to do is run a campaign of smears, thinly-veiled code words, and fear-mongering, in addition to repeating lies over and over and over, and the masses will respond in a Pavlovian way, without the onerous burden of actually trying to ascertain the truth. When someone like Obama comes along – brilliant, nuanced, elqoquent, reasonable, thoughtful – who believes he can appeal to the population’s better instincts, well, he’s at a great disadvantage because that presumes that people are capable of responding to that sort of message. They don’t. They want pre-digested sound-bite capsules and strictly black-and-white “ideas” (“us: good; them bad;” “me war hero, keep you safe”) that don’t require the slightest effort to grasp and internalize. How else to explain the fact that 85% of the country believes we’re on the wrong track, yet the race is almost neck and neck between someone who promises to make things better and someone who is even more dangerous than the current administration? You have no idea how wrong I hope I am, but I’m fearing the worst.

Alright depressees, quit ur fucking whining and start figuring out how to get Obama elected. Out here in Colorado the rethugs hate McCain.And they’re living a complete lie. They are falsely comforted with the current media narrative about this being a tight race. It’s totally scripted and artificial. They don’t like McCain and they’re swallowing the Rovian kool-aid that passes for news.And it turns out so are you whiners. Stop drinking that shit. Purge yourself. Become a media bulimic: watch and then puke, and make sure your neighbors hear your retching and come over and ask if you’re okay.”I’m okay for now, but if I see one more Full of Xenophobic Nausea POS, I’ll hurl. Hey how come you’re not sick from this?”I can tell you who my neighbors are, who watches what channel just by the way they treat me. People are full of fear because they watch TV. We don’t watch any. We’ve written to our local stations and have told them why.Quit being depressed!! It will get better but only if you stop consuming TV. Try it for a month. Unplug from the matrix of fear. Then binge on it. I swear your will puke. It’s so goddamn awful I don’t know how anyone can watch this stuff.The media must go.I don’t really like Michael Moore as much anymore but his Caroline Kennedy for VP suggestion grew on me. The more I think about it, the more I just love all the possibilities of a Obama-Kennedy ticket. Here’s why and here’s how it relate to you whiner/depressees.If the media attacks CK, they are committing fiscal suicide. Nobody is going to read it. They would essentially be attacking a 3 year old girl who lost her Dad at age 3 – that’s how most people associate CK. People will tune them out in increasing numbers. At this moment the traditional media is dying a slow death because they’ve gotten away from their principles. What goes around is coming around like a vengeance. It might take several more years but it will happen. And Obama-Kennedy ticket will speed up its demise, but it’s still up to you to sto consuming their shit.

FrictionSoul: The Caroline Kennedy idea is interesting. I’m still hoping for something less conventional than the names being mentioned.