http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/opinion/30wed1.html?...

“McCain has wholeheartedly adopted Mr. Rove's LOW-MINDED and UNCIVIL playbook.”

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...

Geez!! SSSSSSnakes!!! Whew!!! Deep breaths!!!

The one that stood out the most was the photo of Obama smiling while walking over the shake the hands of white men holding up a big sign saying, “Rednecks for Obama” – classic

And also the one of him serving hamburgers to the locals…the smiles on their faces…-just classic

Politics has . . . evolved from the centralized “war room” of the 1990s to a decentralized one that exists in a million or two homes right now, of which bloggers and independent media are a new kind of precinct captain that needs no orders from headquarters nor permission to take initiative. We saw that at work last weekend in the rapid response from the bottom up to the McCain campaign's false claims in a television ad about Obama's European trip. Only four days later, the McCain camp has backed down.

And that's a large reason why the Chicken Little proclamations that we so often read and hear elsewhere – the petulant demands from armchair campaign managers that the Obama [campaign] fight back in specific ways – are so silly: Surrogates almost always make the better counterpunchers and anybody with a modem or a network of friends or neighbors is now as much of a surrogate as the big names that can garner mass media attention. When you can do something yourself, it's just plain infantile to call upon daddy or mommy – or the presidential candidate or political leader upon which you project that role – to do it for you. Hopefully, one of the lasting results of 2008 will be the emergence of the more grown-up form of political activism in which rather than calling on others to do things for us we simply do it ourselves.

Profound political wisdom from Al Giordano on The Field.

This one's for your PILL-POPPIN' PIECE ON THE SIDE.

CINDY LOU HENSLEY McCAIN in DICKIPEDIA…a wiki of dicks

As a matter of fact, he was the Washington Post staffer who contributed the Obama chapter in the book, Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril, which is an anthology of writings on black manhood edited by the staff of The Washington Post based on a 2006 series of Post articles.

Robinson's piece in the book is titled, “Not Just Any Walk-On Part” and discusses Barack Obama's career and his blackness. IIRC, he starts his piece by writing that “Obama walks black.”

Anyone who hasn't read the book should do so as it is an excellent treatise that offers far more solutons than all the episodes of CNN's Black in America combined.

As for gas, it was bound to happen that we were reminded that A) we're an oil poor country; and that B) we just ain't all that. Look at steel, look at copper, all these things are being used by a lot more people who aren't us which equals higher prices. And guess what? No matter what some tell us we are never going to be able to get out in front of oil on the production side, but maybe just maybe we can fight this on the demand side.

There is one reason and one reason ONLY that Obama is not 25 points ahead in the polls and I'm sick of these condescending “well why can't he close the deal” rethuglicans……no, the question is why is a lily-white military vet BEHIND?