The strategy.

[DCBob]

Lay low. Let them have their fun. This is about the McCain campaign finally feeling good about their candidate. Let them have it. The excitement will die in few days. They made no major attack -- mostly just goofy riducule of Obama's time as community organizer. That won't sell long-term anyway and will most likely backfire. The dirt on Palin is just beginning to surface. Let the tabloids do the dirty work and the MSM will do the rest. Obama campaign won't need to do a thing. Just keep focusing on the issues and take the high road. It will payoff in the end. I also think they have internal polling that shows them much farther ahead than the public polling. That could be why they seem so confident and nonchalant. The Obama campaign has been brilliant up to this point. I think they know exactly what they are doing.

[geek tragedy]

1. In other words, don't worry be happy while the Republicans

kick the shit out of us again.

[DCBob]

3. There is not much shit kicking going on. Mostly dumb goofy insults.

Obama said today I have been called worse names on the basketball court. Their dumb insults make them childish.

[geek tragedy]

6. They look childish only if you don't think like a child.

Most American voters think like children.

[DCBob]

9. That is a good point but those voters probably weren't going to vote for Obama anyway.

However, those types of voters will be easily inflenced by sensational tabloid stories that are coming out now about Palin's affairs and scandals. Obama could get the "tabloid vote" without lifting a finger.

[mrJJ]

2. McSame,s age problem

It's a macabre point (Redacted)- but a look at the actuarial tables insurance companies use to evaluate customers shows that it's not an irrelevant one. According to these statistics, there is a roughly 1 in 3 chance that a 72-year-old man will not reach the age of 80, which is how old McCain would be at the end of a second presidential term. And that doesn't factor in individual medical history, such as McCain's battles with potentially lethal skin cancer.
...

The odds of a 72-year-old man living four more years, or one full White House term, are better. But for a man who has lived 72 years and 67 days (McCain's age on Election Day this year), there is between a 14.2 and 15.1 percent chance of dying before Inauguration Day 2013, according to the Social Security Administration's 2004 actuarial tables and the authoritative 2001 mortality statistics assembled by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Going by the Social Security Administration's tables, that's nearly ten times the likelihood that a man aged 47 years and 92 days (Barack Obama's age on Election Day this year) will die before Jan. 20, 2013.

Above c&p from BOR

[Kutjara]

4. Gee, advice to "keep our powder dry" from someone...

...who joined DU less than a month ago. Is it me, or are the sleeper freepers getting easier to spot lately?

Yeah, buddy, let's just let the Republican filth have their way with the media, while we sit on our hands. I'm sure we'll win anyway, because the American people have such a sterling history of voting for substance over form, right?

FAIL.

[DCBob]

7. What is wrong with you? Just because a member is new does not mean he or she is the enemy.

I am long-term Obama supporter and a volunteer here in Silver Spring, Maryland. I was one of the original signers of the petition to persuade Obama to run back in 2006. Your attitude is disgusting and offers nothing in helping Obama win this thing.

[Kutjara]

8. No, being new on its own doesn't mean someone is the enemy.

But being new and wading in with the old defeatist BS is a big red flag. Relying on the tabloids and the MSM to battle our corner while we strike action poses is just ridiculous. Have you seen any evidence that the MSM is on our side? Any at all? In case you haven't been paying attention, the media is in the GOP's pocket. Relying on them to carry the battle is like relying on Colonel Saunders to babysit your chicken.

Quite apart from your assertions that you're Obama's number one fan, I find your expressed opinion very much at odds with the best interests of the campaign. Another big red flag.

[DCBob]

10. I am not saying we should stop attacking. Please attack away with full force.

I am only trying to help explain what I think the campaign is thinking. I have no inside information -- just my gut feeling and reading between the lines and interpreting signals. I am legit -- get off my case. I currently do volunteer IT work for the Montgomery County Obama website.

http://mocoforobama.com/bethesda/

[Kutjara]

11. If that is indeed what the campaign is thinking, then we're in very big trouble.

The MSM has been our biggest enemy for the best part of two decades. They report uncritically every talking point the GOP makes, while dissecting our most innocuous statements, looking for sinister intent (and, invariably, finding it). The Democratic party has used the "keep our powder dry" mantra countless times during the Bush administration, in the process giving the rubber stamp to every sort of abuse of power. Pelosi has stymied every attempt to impeach the Criminal in Chief, on the grounds that doing so would be "distracting" and that we need to save our political capital for the important stuff. Well, what's more important than removing a criminal from the White House? A great many things, apparently.

There are worse things in the world than being viewed as "unfair" or even "sexist" by the hard-of-thinking. One of them is to be perceived as wimps. There's nothing the average red-blooded American cretin respects more than "toughness" (as manifested by bluster, false bravado, and sabre-rattling), and nothing he despises more than "weakness" (as typified by intelligence, reason, and diplomacy). Therefore, the very core values Dems hold so dear are regarded by a large part of the population as weaknesses. Here is an opportunity to show we're tough in terms the morons can understand. Getting the goods on Palin and driving a stake through her political career is just the kind of thing to get voters to sit up and take notice.

I apologize if I mischaracterized your intent, but lately DU has been full of trolls, freepers and (no-doubt) paid operatives masquerading as "concerned Democrats" and loudly advocating we do things that are against our best interests. I get suspicious when I see what I view to be that kind of post from a relatively new member. Again, if I have misjudged you, I apologize.

[DCBob]

12. Apology accepted. I am suspicious too. Fake supporters are everywhere.

I also have my doubts about you but I will give you the benefit of the doubt for now. :)

My main point is we should trust the Obama campaign. They know a helluvalot more than we do and are a helluvalot smarter than we are. We can attack Palin and McCain all we want -- I am just saying don't attack Obama at the same time. He knows what he is doing.

[knowbody0]

5. it's kinda hard after watching Kerry take the high road.

i do have more faith in Obama's game spirit though.