So what doYOU think? Should Obama stay cool and calm...refuse to

[PretzelWarrior]

go after McCain's and Palin's slanderous charges against him? Or should he go directly after McCain and call him a liar? Something in between?

What can he and his proxies say and do to ensure there is no negative trend in polling for him in the next 4 weeks?

I am not really NERVOUS, nervous. I'm just so shell shocked by 2000, 2002, and 2004 that I treat 2006 as an abherrations. What is the conventional wisdom of the DU group?

[NanceGreggs]

1. Whatever President Obama chooses to do ...

... will turn out to be the right thing.

His campaign will go down in history as being as flawless as it gets.












Ah, just my totally unbiased opinion here.

[PretzelWarrior]

3. from your keyboard to Goddess's ears

[Cary]

5. I second that.

It turns out that McCain really doesn't understand the difference between a strategy and a tactic while Obama clearly does.

[WarbirdForObama]

8. I'll 3rd that!!

[raysr]

2. What exactly DID you

do in the "Hilton" McCain? Word has you were brainwashed by the Russians.

[PretzelWarrior]

4. ahahha. oops. I just realized I posted on the wrong page

[amdezurik]

6. it can be even more effective

to be cool calm and still deliver the same message they are. it can infuriate them ;)

[mzmolly]

7. He needs to make the attacks the joke that they are by calmly inserting a sense

of humor while addressing them one at a time.

I don' think he should let this nonsense get to him, and at the same time, I think he needs to draw ridiculous connections from McCain's past to make the point that the attacks are absurd. Again while treading lightly, with a sense of humor as he does best.

He's been masterful thus far at dealing with this stuff, and if he continues in the same vein, I think he'll do well. The key IMHO will be to lay the foundation for how the media will handle the absurdity of the new McCain camp smears. ie. ridiculous, desperate, transparent, laughable...

(This is how my friends husband, a communications professor) described McCain's performance after the last debate. "No one wants to vote for an asshole." That said, I'm thinking McCain is going to come across as an "asshole" again and as such turn more people off?

[Adsos Letter]

9. Just state the truth...forcefully, and with spirit...