1. There is nothing wrong with being a gentleman and there is a long time in power to regret stooping to their level. It is not the winning or losing but how you play the game. Perhaps McCain will finally get it. Obama has to merely 'be' to be a million miles better than any Republican position that has emerged in the last eight years?

Patrick Lockyer at 8:21PM on Sep 14th 2008

2. That shows a lot of thought. All Obama has to do is "be" and that's all it takes? This is "groupthink" at its best as promulgulated by the leftist media. Obama still hasn't got his "rebound" following the RNC covention, Gibson should have put some more thought into his questions. Who can we get to interview Obama? Anyone with an unbiased background? PBS or NPR? I'll wait for suggestions but I have one that can do the job but I'll hold that answer, TY.

Dedmanrisn at 8:44PM on Sep 14th 2008

3. Cenk-Obama has been making his little slips and saying things he should not, like his vicious smear at Sarah Palin with his Lipstick and the pig remark. Obama had that snicker on his face and the people behind him jumped up laughing and cheering what Obama said about Palin. No, you just pushed that aside, yet it was you who made a big deal over the "terrorist Fist Jab", or did you forget inserting your opinion into what was said.

Obama started losing nomination fight halfway through his campaign with Hillary and almost lost. The same holds true here. The more Obama speaks, the more votes he loses.

The real challenge is not Obama, a lightweight campaigner who speaks in cliches and has limited appeal, but the behind the scenes dirty tricks and a media even more ruthless than ever about destroying McCain and Palin.

And so the double standard is in good and roaring form, as Cenk tries to paint a "oh poor Obama" picture. Let us not forget the dirty campaign Obama waged against Hillary.

According to the media and Obama's supporters, it's okay to belittle the work of a State Governor, but not a Community Organizer. It's also okay to parse McCain's ads for "hidden racism" but it's not okay to criticize Obama for referencing a Navy veteran as an old fish and a female candidate as a pig.

The McCain campaign's attempt to call Obama on his "old fish" reference to McCain and "lipstick on a pig" reference to Palin that had Obama's listeners cheering ran into a hostile press eager to repeat back the Obama campaign's talking points.

But rather than emphasizing sexism, what the campaign should have emphasized is what those lines or Obama miming McCain's inhibited range of motion or the infamous middle finger scratch or the choice of theme song or the 3 AM announcement that Biden not Hillary would be his VP.

What it shows is a dangerous kind of pettiness, disturbing in a man who wants to be President because it suggests a man who feels the need to repay every slight, but to do it just enough under the radar to hold up clean hands. It's not only petty and immature, but it's the act of a coward who can't deal with a straight up fight.

It's a part of a pattern for the man whose campaign first covertly released an ad depicting Hillary Clinton as a Big Brotheresque Tyrant on YouTube, denied he had anything to do with it and when it turned out the video had been put up by an employee of his campaign, claimed that he had done it on his own initiative. None of this stopped the media from celebrating what amounted to a vicious attack ad by promoting it as some sort of new model in political advertising.


This is what set the ugly pattern for this campaign. Obama stabs his opponents in the back or attacks using proxies and then holds up clean hands, smiles and makes a joke of the whole thing. McCain changed the rules of the game by taking the fight to Obama and making him look weak and indecisive for trying to play his old game of dirty attacks through media proxies while maintaining a clean image.

Backstabbers whose strategy is to show a positive image in public rely on maintaining a facade of civility that disarms their opponents and critics. "But he's such a nice guy", they expect everyone to say, even as they're doing their dirtiest work. They don't know what to do with a full frontal attack because it sidelines their entire strategy of a public high road and a private low road.

Backstabbers like Obama are by definition cowards, they don't know what to do with a Mano a Mano fight. While Obama's supporters are pushing him to go negative, he's too cowardly to actually hit back, relying on under the radar lines like "Old Fish" and "Lipstick on a Pig" to satisfy his supporters.

Obama's whole effort has been to develop a public "nice guy" persona and he's too afraid to jettison it because he won't have anything left. After all if Obama isn't the nice friendly guy who's eager to reach out to everyone, what is he? The short answer is nothing. The long answer is far more troubling because it would involve finding out who Obama really is under the phony smile, something he's worked to keep from happening, whether it involves sealing records or sealing lips.

Obama has always counted on having his hired guns and his media pets sink in the knife. Now he's realizing that he really will have to fight and his supporters are realizing that he's too weak to do it. They want him to go negative, but Obama is smart enough to know that if the race goes negative on both sides, he will lose no matter what the media will do on his behalf. He's tried to run on being a uniter, offering a new age hug for America and the world. McCain is instead trying to force him to play the warrior and on those terms he will lose.

Instead Obama has released a weak ad attacking McCain for not using the internet, more of a compliment to himself than anything else, whined about Swift Ad attacks and continues using the media as his crutch to do the attacking for him. And while the media is more than eager to do Obama's work for him, the American people are not stupid and know an unfair umpire when they see one.

McCain has offered Obama a man's fight, Obama instead called out a bunch of paid off referees and the polls on media bias show the public gets it and doesn't like it. After two weeks of relentless media attacks, McCain's poll numbers continue rising.

But the race is not over by far. Beyond the media assault, the ace in the hole for Obama will be dirty tricks and a possible desperation alliance with the Clintons, as Bill Clinton and Biden's comments signal a plea for reconciliation. It will be a tough fight and the toughest is yet to come.Sultan

Robert OKane at 9:03PM on Sep 14th 2008

4. Dear concerned citizens of America and Mass Media of the U.S.A.

As a concerned registered independent voter, forensic psychiatrist, disabled American I made my decision to vote after taking into consideration following joint tickets attributes and characteristics.

1. Has the ticket shown adequate calmness, coolness, and connectedness's under pressure to lead our nation [Presidential Temperament]?

2. Has the ticket shown sustained sound "Judgment and Caliber"?

3. Has the ticket shown adequate understanding of depth and degree to address the crucial challenges in their their purpose, policies, and positions [ Honesty, integrity and sincerity]?

4. Has the ticket sufficient "understanding and knowledge" of inside Washington workings [Experience]"?

5. Has the ticket reservoir resilience, wisdom, and vigor to address the present and future f our beloved "Great-grand Nation"?

6. Has the ticket enough joint foreign policy experience and exposure based on " Values, Virtues, Vastness, and " [American moral soul]"?

7. Has their campaign talk, slogans, ads, plans, and programs based on facts and are they free of fear, fiction, frivolous labels, unfair attacks, negativity, and impulsively? [No "imminent danger to national
security and safety"].

8. Has the ticket genuinely kept on message of country first and politics last and avoided copying [Message change"]?

9.Has the ticket message stayed away from Culture divide and war[ Disaster prevention ]?

10. Has the ticket resisted being surrounded, supported and surrogate's by divisiveness, distortion's, and destructive characters, [ Real patriotism VS shiftiness and shameless parrot-ism]?

I have personally and professionally concluded that OBAMA-BIDEN ticket will lift and inspire our greatgrand nation back to its greatness within and restore our global standing with the use of maximum, firm
international diplomacy and minimal force if and when indicated {" Peace thru Strenght "}.


Yours sincerely,

COL. A.M.Khajawall [Ret] MD.
Forensic psychiatrist, Disabled American Veteran and Iraq
Freedom team. Grass roots California leader per Senator McCain's mailings.

COL. A.M.Khajawall [Ret] at 10:11PM on Sep 14th 2008

5. RO: A very good analysis of what has happened and is in sote for Gov. Palin as the Obama campaign and the press realize that time is running out on them.

They are concentrating so hard on discrediting Palin so they will lose focus on McCain, the real candidate for president, not Palin, although to read the papers or watch tv, its Palin that is the candidate. That puts Obama on the spot as he will have to continue to hem and haw to satisfy the rabidly left wing of the Democrat party.

You can rest assured that Hollywood, the MSM and the canle channels won't give up buut will intensify their campaign of lies and innuendo as October and November get ever closer.

Dedmanrisn at 10:21PM on Sep 14th 2008

6. mmmm....er... that lipstick remark seemed to energize his base.
but in othe news:
the anti-palin rally in alaska was larger than her welcome home rally.
and of course its just a coincidence, but 2 lobbyists working in campaignfinance for mccain also work for companies named in the sex-n-dope for oil indictments coming out of the dept. of the interior.

Louis IX KingofFrance at 10:40PM on Sep 14th 2008

7. I have personally and professionally concluded that OBAMA-BIDEN ticket will lift and inspire our greatgrand nation back to its greatness within and restore our global standing with the use of maximum, firm
international diplomacy and minimal force if and when indicated {" Peace thru Strenght "}.


Yours sincerely,

COL. A.M.Khajawall [Ret] MD.
Forensic psychiatrist, Disabled American Veteran and Iraq
Freedom team. Grass roots California leader per Senator McCain's mailings.

COL. A.M.Khajawall [Ret] at 10:11PM on Sep 14th 2008
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Sorry Colonel, but forensic psychiatry isn't really a qualification for analysis of how a campaign is run nor how the candidates will perform in office. Its interesting how you can attribute all these attributes to the Obama campaign when there is so little known of what the head of that campaingn actually thinks and how he will accomplish it.
Anyone can get up and promise change and hope, with actually sound better in a sermon, but we know that wasn't the popular sermon at Rev. Wright's church. As Editor of the Harvard Law Review, you would think Obama would have written many articles for peer review. He didn't. He also never argued any significant cases as a lawyer and his license to practice is expired years ago.
The Community Organizer is generic, no specifics, Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers were not just social, one-time meetings. What did he do in the IL senate? Those 143 days he spent in the US Senate qualify for what? Not even for re-election except in Chicago. His votes, few as they are were mostly as a co-sponsor, not as an originator of legislation and his present votes say he wants no trail left to be held against him. You can analyze the loser but only psychologically. Frankly, I fail to see what your degree has to do with foreign policy, economics, defense, social security, tax policy or anything else your rank would indicate you actually have other than your MOS which I doubt had nothing to do with any of these topics. I'll leave your topics to be forensically dissected by someone else who wants to spend the time. Otherwise, you're just Joe Citizen with an opinion to me.

Dedmanrisn at 10:50PM on Sep 14th 2008

8. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washington/11royalty.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1

Louie: You might as well post the link if you're going to hint at wrongdoing.

Dedmanrisn at 12:01AM on Sep 15th 2008

9. I googled "Khajawall" & this guy's a lying son of a bitch. Here's a blog recognizing the "good colonel's" bullshit. Grass roots California leader per Senator McCain's mailings my ass.

>>>I was reading an article at American Thinker that was outlining yet another gaffe by the Messiah but one of the comments got my attention.

Try to make any sense out of this drivel.

Our Great-grand Nation, the United States of America
is and will face very critical and substantial “Challenges” in coming,
months, years, and decades to come.
…..
Let us remember that our Greatgrand is constituted of
family, friends,fellowships, faith, funds,foundation, fun, and future with fairness and freedom and without fear or favor.
…..
COL.[retd] A.M.Khajawall M.D.
Forensic Psychiatrist.
Disables American Veteran.
Las Vegas Nevada.
Cell: 951-505-6975

Okay, did you manage to get your brain wrapped around that?

This exact same comment showed up after an article by Brian Tumulty at the Polhudson blog to which Tumulty responded:

Colonel of WHAT? Assessing this jumbled prose and indecipherable opinion, if you were a Colonel, Donald Duck was the Lt. Gen.

This mindless vowel-movement was so incomprehensible that it intrigued me. So I did a search on the good Colonel and I was floored. (I know there is no way in hell that this clown is or ever was a Colonel.)

What this knuckle dragging idiot lacks in gray matter he makes up for in energy and persistence. He has indeed been busy.

He basically has about three versions of the same cry for serious mental help and he has posted them in the comments of over 1300 articles in the past month! I did call the number but there was no answer.

Obama now has the African American vote, the socialist vote and now the emotionally disturbed vote. We are doomed!

Posted by COB6 in Politics>>>

Bobby at 12:10AM on Sep 15th 2008

10. If you don't believe THIS go to the Communist Party USA website and find out who they endorse as president. Obama! Communist all over the world want Obama as president. What is a communist? It seems we have forgotten their history and legacy of death and enslavement. A communist is somebody who doesn't want you to read the Bible or have your own gun. This is why B.H.Obama criticised Americans for holding on to their religion and their guns. He is a marxist. Wake up stupid dupes of the Communist Democratic Party of America otherwise known as the DNC. Even their intials speak of an abortion technique. Or it could mean the Devil's New Communists. I am an ex-American Paratrooper and I approve of this message!

ranger rich at 12:11AM on Sep 15th 2008

11. Colonel: It seems you're running your own little psy-ops operation arent you. Here's the NY Times, the Colonel and a comment follow the main article.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/

You can just google and see where the colonel pops up...more than just here and the NYTs.

Dedmanrisn at 12:12AM on Sep 15th 2008

12. Seems the colonel has been at this for awhile.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/akhajawall

Ded at 12:17AM on Sep 15th 2008

13. The colonel and a reply at bottom of blog.



COL. A.M.Khajawall [Ret]
2008-08-31 15:56:33Dear concerned citizens of America and mass media of the U.S.A. As a concerned disabled American Veteran and American citizen, I consider it my duty and responsibility to address the following critical issues facing the voters of our Greatgrand nation, the United States of America [USA]. The citizens of the United States of America [USA] have the ultimate power and responsibility to elect the Right Ticket with the right joint "temperament, judgment, and statesmanship" to lead our nation as well as change our nation's present and future moral, political, economic, educational, health care, energy, military, and foundational soul. In my firm professional, personal, and political opinion, the media should help the common voter to explore and discuss the following attributes of the present Republican and Democratic presidential slates: 1. Does the joint ticket have a calm, cool, and collected " temper and impulse" [Presidential Temperament]? 2. Does each ticket have sound and sustained "Judgment and Caliber"? 3. Does each ticket have a "presidential depth and degree" in regard to their purpose, policies, and positions? 4. Does each ticket have adequate, "understanding and knowledge" of workings around Washington"? 5. Does each ticket have enough "vigor, wisdom and Vision" for the future of our beloved Great-grand Nation? 6. Does each ticket possess enough joint foreign policy experience and ex-poser based on "American Values, Virtues, Vastness, and strong soul"? 7. Are their campaign talk, slogans, ads, plans, and programs based on facts and are they free of fear, fiction, frivolous labels, unfair attacks, negativity, and impulsivity? If your answer to a majority of the above questions is yes, I suggest you vote for that ticket. As a Independent registered voter I have decided to vote for Obama-Biden ticket. I am sure they will protect our national security, Strong's, stamina and strong soul. Rebuild our nation from bottom up in all areas of need, OBAMA-BIDEN ticket will once again restore and rebuild our global standing with the use of maximum international humane diplomacy and minimal force if and when indicated. Yours sincerely, COL. A.M. Khajawall [Ret] MD., Forensic psychiatrist, Colonel, US-AR / MC Combat Stress Control[Ret], Disabled American Veteran and Iraq Freedom team.

AH
2008-09-05 08:26:36Colonel . . . thank you for your service but your no independent . . . your such a fan of google that I decided to google your name and guess what . . . you comment on every article about McCain using the same intro and content as here . . . I don't know if you are real or fake but your sincerity about being an independent thinker sure is. Nice try but back to the daily kos

http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/08/clintons-pass-the-torch-to-oba-001086.php

Dedmanrisn at 12:31AM on Sep 15th 2008

14. Why would Obama need to fight back? He has the liberal mainstream press, the liberal cable news, and the liberal bloggers that are Saint Obama's minions doing all of the muck raking. What I do find disturbing is the amount of lies that are spewing forth from both camps. Of the eleven presidential campaigns I've been involved in this is by far the worst. Neither side decided to take the high road but jumped into the gutter and are duking it out. If it wasn't so pathetic it would be laughable.

Dennis Bowen at 12:45AM on Sep 15th 2008

15. The financial system is in meltdown. We are heading for The Great Depression II. Thanks a lot George W. Bush and all you Republicans for screwing up the economy gloriously. And you fundamentalists want four more years of this shit? You must be out of your f**king minds. But then, of course you are!

PS Just remember the eight years of peace and prosperity that you had under Bill Clinton. Ah, those golden years. And you can have them again.
Vote Democratic!

Francis Xavier Pope at 1:02AM on Sep 15th 2008