McCain should keep inviting Obama for his town hall, no moderator debates that he wants to do. Put the pressure on Obama. McCain just doesn't seem to know when to attack his opponents and do it pretty aggressively.

They showed the new McCain ad on tv. McCain says congratulations to Obama, it's an historic night, and job well done.

I wonder if Obama will walk up to the podium, salute and then declare, "Sen. Obama reporting for duty"? :)

What would be hilarious is if he ended his speech with.......

Can you dig it????

I'd go with:

"FINALLY, Barack as RETURNED to Denver....."

That would be cool. But as the way things have gone this week, every single word, every single motion and every single visual will be fully approved ahead of time by a committee.

Right idea, wrong catchphrase.

If you SMEEEELLLLLLLL what BARACK is cooking!

This is a pretty painfully awkward :56 seconds.

hmmm... Too bad the favor can't be returned. Nothing historic about an old white guy running for president.

Are you now channeling MBBF for your predictions?

:D

I kind of skim over his posts, don't you? ;)

Favor my ass. McCain is running the commercial because it keeps him in the media eye. It wouldn't shock me at all to see some sort of congratulations commercial from Obama, but it won't be a favor either.

Now why didn't I think of that.

Cool. He can get everyone eating oatmeal again.

Posers.

Wilford Brimley can get shit done, Dick Chaney style. He whooped some ass in The Firm.

But he had to shut it all down in "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins".

I love how they keep referring to Invesco Field as "Mile High Stadium." Keith Olbermann started it last night and ever since then, they've seemingly decided to ignore it. But whatever works.

As for the whole "this convention was supposed to show him as a regular guy and this big rally is failing," that logic is really stupid, even if the pundits and the partisans will keep pushing it. Looking at those crowds, save for the pols and the random Hollywood types mixed in, all I see is a horde of just ordinary people.

Getting that many people energized to do anything, much less listen to a political speech, is a pretty big deal.

If this was overseas and we were watching these rallies, we'd talk about the swarms of people desiring a change in direction in that country.

Here we say "he's not an ordinary guy. He can't connect."

If this was Belarus or something, we'd call it the "Change Revolution" or something.

No, I'm still not voting for him. But this stuff is still crazy.

aaah, just vote for him already

Nope.

Can't do that. It's like rooting for a team you're not a fan of. Just because you're not gonna root for them, you can appreciate the story.

+1

+2 - actually I'll give another bump for him beating the Clintons. That took balls.

"Free ponies! Free ponies for everyone! Ponies for America! All Americans deserve the right to have a pony."

I dunno. I wanna punch Michelle in the mouth and fix her underbite.

Working for the Tribune Company, I found this interesting...

SHOWDOWN: Obama campaign confronts talkradio station over 'right-wing hatchet man'

After all the media anal probes presidents have received for the past two and one half decades, Obama sure seems thin-skinned when it comes to criticism from what he and his followers consider the opposition.

If he wins, hopefully some world leader doesn't insult him.

"Did you hear what that cat, Ahmadinejad, said about me the other day? It is time for you, my followers, to take action..."

Obamanation..."Yes we can...here we come Iran."

Obama should ask Kobe how his ass tastes. That should secure the basketball hater vote in every state except California, and the Dems are too far ahead in CA to lose it. :)

Some "American people" are also demanding changes that neither party can deliver.

"Rise up and insist on new leadership" - Yes.

"New ideas" - Probably, but I haven't heard of many, unless "reversal" are considered new ideas.

"New politics" - Give me a break. This week and next will be anything but new politics. The "American people" are not ready for new politics, they just want to change the channel.

Yeah, the media will probably herald this speech as decisive. I don't really find it anything more than a trumped up stump speech. The massive crowd was necessary, because otherwise, it'd look just like his other rallies. He needed to one up that considerably and this does that by the optics of it all.

That said, all he's saying is the same retread Demo platform stuff. The fact of the matter is, he's giving Johnny Mac more free advertising by saying his name a ton more than anything. You notice McCain almost never says his name. He just generally says "my opponent."

+1

Sounds like we don't want a leader that is too thick skinned (i.e., too stubborn to change) or too thin skinned either (i.e., too reactive). But then again, those that have too little experience in Washington tend to rely more on others to think and react in their stead (as we saw with Carter and Bush2).

It has been my experience, Republicans and Democrats say what needs to be said to energize their voters during the election cycle...but once they get to Washington, there really isn't much difference in how the govern.

So did he say what he would do to bring about change? I mean, besides "save the poor", "tax the rich", "balance the budget", "universal health care" and "save social security"?

I am looking for something between "I will do nothing" and "I will write a great novel", like "I will write the first page in my first year."

:withstupid:

Except for one thing (and this is the big thing for me) - a single-party Legislature/Executive will be different than a split-party Legislature/Executive.

Yep. And I think we all get sucked into it.

How about, "I will do something that should have been done following the First World War, I will work to appeal the Sixteenth Amendment and forever abolish the federal personal income tax."

I'd launch a grass roots effort to abolish presidential term limits for such an individual.

Wonder how Brooks and Dunn feel about their song being used...

I think the American People would like a Free Pony better.

That's a dream sequence, right? He didn't really say that.

Yeah, but it usually only takes one presidential term or two of whatever party is in control of the entire wad to screw things up so badly that partisan gridlock is finally restored to the government. :)

Yes...that would be my dream candidate!

And no, I don't expect any Democrat candidate to say anything close to that in my lifetime.

Considering the average pony costs between $600 and $1200, they've already gotten that this year.

Man...I didn't realize ponies were that cheap!

If my daughter finds out I could have bought a pony instead of a television I'm in big trouble.

That's a really good point.

Instead of one big wad, I would vote for having everyone getting $100 less taken out of their paychecks each month.

luckily for me ... my daughter is past the age of wanting a pony.

unluckily for me ... now she wants a new car.

Yeah, they are cheap to buy, but ongoing upkeep is a bitch. Kinda like interest payments on a massive amount of debt.

ALL AMERICANS DESERVE A PONIES. NOT JUST THE RICHEST AMERICANS DESERVES PONIES.

PONIES ARE AN INALIENABLE RIGHT!

NO SUBPRIME LOANS FOR PONIES!

Heh...the Pony Upkeep Crisis. We need the government to do something to help us take care of our ponies.

Don't worry. A no-bid contract has been awarded to Halliburton to provide for the ponies.