Obama's best strategy? Attack

[Undercurrent]

Similar sentiments as the ones laid out in this article have been voiced here on DU by many, but this is well laid out, so I thought I'd toss it in the hopper.

Personally I'm a little conflicted on this point, because I would be a huge flop at running for office, so it's good that I have trust in Obama's ability as a political tactician (and a poker player - hehe).

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By Jonathan Chait
July 31, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-chait31-2008jul31,0,6008771.story

If you've heard anything at all about John McCain during the last few weeks, what you've probably heard is that he's losing. His advisors hate each other, the media are ignoring him, and he's getting photographed in golf carts and supermarket cheese aisles while his opponent strikes Kennedyesque poses...

...To go on the attack, Obama doesn't need to engage in character assassination and baseless charges, as his opponent has done. All he needs to do is stop letting McCain paint a wildly distorted self-portrait. The Arizona senator wants voters to see him as a maverick who never changes positions for political reasons. One ad touts the way he bucked Bush on the environment. It doesn't mention that McCain has abandoned the climate-change bill he co-sponsored, demanded wider drilling and a gas-tax holiday that would undermine the goal of burning less fossil fuel, and started raking in huge sums from oil companies...

[Historic NY]

1. Let no charge/smear go unanswered, take the offensive and ...

grind them to pulp so it takes days for them to get their senses (they have none) back. Make no mistake Rove is engineering a lot of this crap. The sooner the Congress sends out the Sergeant at Arms to make the arrest the better. Rove cannot make the case he is immune he is now a private citizen.