Obama Supporters - Stop the Palin Drama - This is why

Damn I hate this, but let me say it again, I am voting for Obama, I just think he and his other supporters should use a different tactic to argue for him.

Obama should ignore Palin, entirely. He should focus on his strength which is his position that the troops in iraq could have helped to eliminate the Taliban and Al Queda forces in afganistan and pakistan. That his foresight on that issue and others is superior to McCain....etc etc etc.

We need to ignore her like VPs have been ignored in most of the past presidential elections. The problem is the media doesn't seem to be able to help themselves and may force the issue.

Obama should hammer away at the failures of the bush administration, especially the ones McCain voted for. He should stay on message, which is that he respects McCain and his service, he just thinks McCain's judgement is flawed. Hammer the point home that McCain is stuck in cold war thinking and that the current situation needs a broader more dynamic perspective.

Look @ McCain's positions like his focus on energy & say "if McCain is so effective why hasn't he authored and passed laws to enact these polices in his long career in the senate?"

McCain set the game with the Palin pick. She was chosen to bait the dems into a sucker punch fight. All those people who thought that clinton was mistreated because of a blow job, well what are they going to think about a gov who tries to get an abusive ex brother in law fired, Palin's getting heat that

Palin is a bait an switch.. "look at the monkey" McCain says holding a stuffed Palin monkey high in his left hand, then bang if you look up you get hit with a right upper cut.

As long as the press is looking at palin an ripping through her experience people will eventually start comparing her to obama, then blamo they compare obama to McCain and obama's experience/accomplishments

look very outmatched.

STAY ON CURRENT TARGET ISSUES, failures over the last 8 years, what McCain has done in that regard, etc

Palin was only put up to bait the left and the dems... case in point, the more her family is in the front the more questions like this will be asked.

"CNN’s John Roberts framed the issue Friday, saying: “Children with Down syndrome require an awful lot of attention. The role of vice president, it seems to me, would take up an awful lot of her time, and it raises the issue of, how much time will she have to dedicate to her newborn child?”"

The more that happens the more the republicans can woo pissed of hillary supporters by following it up with...

“These questions would not be asked if she was a man,”

and

“I haven’t heard a single thing about what (Barack) Obama would do with his kids,”

so I agree the republicans are putting them up on stage and using them to draw fire, but all the dems and the press have to do is not pull the trigger. I don't think the press can resist, but we Obama supporters HAVE to for the sake of our candidate.

Stop talking about Palin and help out the campaign (even if it's just for 30 minutes a day from your home) please go to http://www.mybarackobama.com to find out how.

What McCain's people think about us

If anything, these simple words show great insight into how Republicans think

Earlier today during an interview Rick Davis, John McCains campaign manager said the following about the current election and the issues that matter in our country. Davis insisted that the presidential race will be decided more over personalities than issues during an interview with Post editors this morning.

"This election is not about issues," said Davis. "This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates."

Read Source 1 and Source 2 for the full story.

I have read a lot of things during this campaign, but no statements offended me as much as this one. These few simple words provide so much insight into what republicans and the McCain campaign think about the American people and how they attempt to manipulate us.

In reaction to Rick Davis' comments about the election not being about issues, Barack Obama campaign manager David Plouffe released the following statement: "We appreciate Senator McCain's campaign manager finally admitting that his campaign is not in fact about the issues the American people care about, which is exactly the kind of cynical old politics people are ready to change."

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UPDATE:

Obama hits Davis on 'issues'

Carrie Budoff Brown reports:

Barack Obama hit John McCain Wednesday over a comment from his campaign manager that the presidential race will be decided more over personalities than issues.

“Which probably explains why last night when they were speaking, all these speakers (at the Republican National Convention) came up, you didn’t hear a single word about the economy,” Obama said at an economic forum in New Philadelphia, Ohio. “Not once did people mention the hardships that people are going through.”

“I guess I don’t blame them,” Obama added, “because if you don’t have any issues to run on, you want it all to be about personality. If you have got George Bush’s track record and John McCain voting 90 percent of the time in agreement with George Bush, then you probably you don’t want to talk about issues either.”

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis told Washington Post editors Tuesday that issues will have an impact on undecided voters but will not be conclusive.

“This election is not about issues,” Davis said. “This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.”

The Obama campaign challenged the remarks Tuesday, and Obama added criticism of Davis’s remarks in his stump speech Wednesday, as part of an extended riff aimed at painting McCain as out of touch.