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Comment Rescue — Update on Camp Obama

Amy on the Camp Obama thread comes back to update us on this weekend’s activities at Delaware’s Camp Obama:

I attended yesterday’s training Camp Obama training session. It’s not too late! This coming weekend is a registration drive for Pa. and Va., both states that Delawareans can be of help with. Delawareans are in a unique position to help in two critical swing states.

The DE beaches group is going to Va. Go to http://www.mybarackobama.com and join your local group. The Wilmington and Newark groups are going to Pa this weekend.

If you can’t do anything else, the clock is definitely ticking for voter registrations. Please contact your local group and offer to help!

I thought the same thing about the lack of signs – I love yard signs!

Yesterday, it was explained that in this campaign, people are the signs. Direct voter to voter contact is important. Most of us are not thrilled about knocking on stranger’s doors or making phone calls, and I like you, don’t know where to find any extra time, but this is important! Ask everyone you know if they are registered to vote AND if they are voting.

My husband and twelve-year-old daughter went knocking on doors in Kennet Square, Pa. yesterday. It’s a conservative area much like parts of DE. People there, like here, need to feel solidarity with other Obama-Biden voters. It empowers us.

Don’t be discouraged. Do what you can so we can all share in the victory on Nov. 5th.

Thanks Amy! We really appreciate the update and your work. So get out there De Liberal readers! There are plenty of opportunities to work for Obama in the next month or so.

I’m Home

You always hear of those horror stories where passengers are trapped on a plane parked on the tarmac for hours on end.   Well, I was lucky.   That was the road I and my fellow compadres were traveling down, but 20 minutes after I posted my earlier story, the Captain came on the intercom announcing we could take off now.

Now, onto politics….

I really think John McCain ended his campaign today for all intents and purposes.   His stunt in suspending his campaign and requesting a postponement of both his debate this Friday with Obama and the Vice Presidential debate on October 2 are being recognized throughout America and in the media for what it is: A stunt.  You should have heard the conversations on the plane I was on.  We all in the terminal saw the news and Obama’s response.    These are actual quotes I wrote down while listening to the conversations about McCain’s stunt aboard the plane:

“Silly.”

“McCain saw the polls this morning and panicked.   Hell, whenever he gets bad news, he panics.  What is he going to do in the White House?”

“Johnny Boy is in trouble I guess.”

“Sounds like he doesn’t want to debate.”

“What is he gonna do?   The last time John McCain dealt with banking he was part of the Keating Five.”

Barack Obama responded exactly right to this stunt.   He correctly pointed out that a President must, by definition, concentrate on more than one issue, more than one crisis, at a time.   And he refused to play along with the game of suspending his campaign.   Barack Obama will be in Mississippi to address his plans to confront the myriad problems facing America.  Whether or not John McCain wishes to join him is entirely up to John McCain.   If he does not, he proves that he has no plans.  All he has is campaign stunts.  Indeed, all John McCain’s campaign has been is stunts.  From suspending the gas tax to the selection of Sarah Palin to zig zagging about in response to the Market Collapse of 2008 (first the fundamentals of our economy is strong to “Holy shit we are in trouble, I am a populist now, let’s cancel the election!”)

And let’s say that John McCain does return to Washington to partake in these negotiations.   Can his presence be any more than a distraction.  John McCain has no experience with the economy, by his own admission.  He is not on the banking committee, or on any of the committees currently in negotiation with the Bush Administration on this crisis.    Indeed, he has not been in the Senate for months, and has not voted on a bill since April.   There is some question as to whether his colleagues will even recognize him.

What John McCain needs to do is debate with Barack Obama about what his plans are to solve this crisis and progress our nation.  What we do not need is any more of these panicked and idiotic stunts from John McCain.   His latest is insulting to us as American citizens.
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Added: 10:19

McCain stunt gives Obama a bounce.

New Battleground Polls

Huh.  Maybe that ABC/Washington Post Poll is accurate and not an outlier.

From the Marist Poll, among likely voters:

Iowa: Obama 51, McCain 41

Sept. 18-21; Error margin 4.5 points

New Hampshire: Obama 51, McCain 45

Sept 17-21; error margin 4 points

Michigan: Obama 52, McCain 43

Sept. 16-17; error margin 4 points

Ohio: Obama 47, McCain 45

Sept. 11-15; error margin 4.5 points

Pennsylvania: Obama 49, McCain 44

Sept. 11-15; error margin 4.5 points

Good Obama News Abounds

Today’s ABCNews/WaPo poll shows that Obama has opened up a 9 point lead over McCain.  Why is he up?

Just 9 percent of those surveyed rated the economy as good or excellent, the first time that number has been in single digits since the days just before the 1992 election. Just 14 percent said the country is heading in the right direction, equaling the record low on that question in polls dating back to 1973.

Perhaps more importantly, Obama has now exceeded the 50% threshold in support with 52%.  By comparison, neither Al Gore or John Kerry ever exceeded 50% in pre-election polling.  Another feature of the poll is Obama’s increased strength with white women, where he is now tied with McCain.

If that weren’t enough, Von Cracker points us to an article that shows that McCain has been caught astroturfing letters to the editor by hiring a ghostwriter.

I’ll tell you this, though, I ain’t calling this yet.  But McCain is ripe for the picking at this Friday’s debate.

Camp Obama Comes to Delaware

I was talking to a NJ Dem Party official a few weeks ago and she told me that the recent one of these held in NJ drew more than 200 people from all over South Jersey. And that this event was not only inspiring, but damned fun. I’m posting the entire invitation below the jump, but this is really an incredible opportunity to get some of the best organizing training in the business — training that would be useful for all of us looking to get more involved in working for more and better Democrats at the local level. And it is just fantastic that this opportunity is coming to Delaware.
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Leadership

Obama is talking about addressing the issues (with his financial team in attendance) and urging some bipartisanship, while McCain is whining and contributing to his epic flail.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfeesYmx1Y&eurl=http://www.jedreport.com/[/youtube]

This is a brilliant side-by-side comparison (by The Jed report) of these two candidates addressing the current troubles.  And, frankly, McCain comes across much like his compatriots here — ill-informed, partisan, overly focused on Obama and not at all focused on resolution of anything other than his own entitlement issues.  Apparently.

Bob Barr as a Serious Spoiler

There was a time, not too long ago, when Bob Barr could have played spoiler.  He was taking enough GA voters that McCain would lose the state to Obama.  Some of that has turned around since Palin was added to the ticket.

Today, Bob Barr filed suit against Obama and McCain in Texas, accusing them of missing the filing deadline.  This is going to be interesting.  Texas has 34 electoral votes and McCain holds a solid 20 point lead there.

Not your Liberal Media

Wick Allison, a conservative with National Review street cred, speaks the truth about his party.

But today it is so-called conservatives who are cemented to political programs when they clearly don’t work. The Bush tax cuts—a solution for which there was no real problem and which he refused to end even when the nation went to war—led to huge deficit spending and a $3 trillion growth in the federal debt. Facing this, John McCain pumps his “conservative” credentials by proposing even bigger tax cuts. Meanwhile, a movement that once fought for limited government has presided over the greatest growth of government in our history. That is not conservatism; it is profligacy using conservatism as a mask.

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Let’s Compare Obama and McCain’s New Economy Ads

First, let’s take a look at Obama’s ad.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONM7148cTyc[/youtube]

 

Now let’s see what John McCain has to say.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRg8kaKfLXs[/youtube]

Whoa, Rambo!  That’s some pretty tough talk.  Got any specifics to back it up?  

What exactly is John McCain’s plan for the economy?  Does he even have one?