Obama better grow a pair or it will be a repeat of KERRY 2004!!!

[Vote2008]

I love the guy but he had better put asshole McCain in his place and quick or he will come across as a wimp.
I am registering voters every weekend in August. Obama needs to do his part by calling out McCain for what he is.

[cliffordu]

1. Thanks for your concern!!! IBTL!!!!

:popcorn:

[Jackpine Radical]

5. It must be cold under the bridge tonight.

[cliffordu]

8. Yep. Freezing. (Freeping???)

[babylonsister]

2. Omaba?

Your concern is noted. :eyes:

[Leftist Agitator]

35. Para bailar Obamba!

Para bailar Obamba es necesita una poca de gracia.

[graywarrior]

3. OMG! Have you tried calling him!!!

Help! Help! Someone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Obama's doing fine.

Quit yelling at him for not using checkers rules while playing chess.

[AlinPA]

7. Good use of a metaphor. I get nervous playing chess. nt

[paulk]

17. all too often it's the low info voters who decide elections

And for them, the GE is a game of checkers...

[JoFerret]

47. High information voters

are equally likely to vote the "wrong" way.

[whistler162]

25. More like Obama is playing

Basketball and McCain is trying to paly Hockey on a Basketball court.

[Jackpine Radical]

39. OK--

I never metaphor I didn't like.

[KansasVoter]

6. Someone needs to start ripping McCain. Maybe the Clintons? Edwards?

[mvd]

9. Be patient.

Obama has been responding and will go more negative if McCain keeps it up. I think Obama's letting McCain overplay his hand a bit since there has been nothing as noteworthy as the Swift Boat Liars.

[blondeatlast]

10. I think he DID put McSame in his place very well as well as offering just a bit

more rope for the old fool to hang himself with.

I think it was a great week, myself.

[KansasVoter]

13. We said the same things about Swift Boating!

[blondeatlast]

15. The Swift Boats came much closer to Election Day. McSame came off as a jerk this week.

But if you enjoy anxiety, go ahead and be anxious. We haven't even had the convention yet, sheesh.

[sniffa]

11. I love threads like these

They help me add to one the DU records I hold.

:woohoo:

[pinto]

12. Kudos for your registration efforts. That's a big key.

I'm not worried about the rest. I think Sen. Obama will do fine. Yet what *we* can do is as you are, encourage folks to register, help build voter momentum, etc.

[TexasObserver]

30. Agreed. Registration of voters, identifying our voters, and GOTV!!

I don't look at this race differently than I did those of Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, or Mondale. Once we have a nominee, I'm focused only on seeing them win. I don't personally care what they say to get elected, as long as they get elected. If the only thing I can depend on is that they will appoint Democrats to the Supreme Court, it would be worth it to me. My choice is the party's nominee, or the GOP's, and that's always an easy choice.

We win by registering voters, identifying our voters, and getting them to the polls on election day.

The day after the election is when we start figuring out how to keep the entire party moving in the direction we feel is best. First win, then decide how far left we can move the party and country.

[Clear Blue Sky]

14. Chill...

McCain's negative ads will back fire on him. Obama has way more class than McCain and shouldn't roll in the mud with him.

[Whisp]

16. McCain is putting his own sorry asshole on the view for all to see.

and get kicked. (oooo, what a dream, kicking that loser where his peas and carrots come out of)

Why would Obama interrupt a gift like that?

[Bluerthanblue]

18. he's got an excellent pair- he doesn't need to hide behind attacking

a weak old white man to prove he's ten times the Leader Mccain could ever dream of being.

Obama doesn't need to call out McCain- he needs to let McCain reveal his true 'character'- for all the world to see.

If Obama has to become someone like McCain to win, then winning is meaningless.

[cbc5g]

19. the real shit will happen when McSame brings out Wright

I don't know if there is a picture of Obama with Farrakhan but there is a picture of Obama with Wright and they'll have it up on the screen while Wright screams "God Damn America". It's coming.

[FrenchieCat]

20. I disagree with you and your take.

I agree with this analysis of what needs to happen much more! http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6573927&mesg_id=6573927

[Tarheel_Dem]

21. I note by your star that you're a contributing member. Since you can use the "search" function....

was it really necessary to start yet another "Obama Better Do ________", or he's gonna lose? Geez, perhaps you should take your own advice, and grow a pair.

[blondeatlast]

28. But, but, but, they are all ORIGINAL concerns, you see! Concern that Obama needs to "grow a pair" is

so very different than "I'm a longtime Obama supporter who's worn out two pairs of Nikes registering voters, BUT..." and "If Obama doesn't start kicking McSame's ass live on TV RIGHT FUCKING NOW we're doomed, doomed I say!"

We can't put a damper on their oh-so-legitimate and utterly original anxiety, now can we?!







Note for the wittically challenged readers of this thread, this post is 100% pure, unadulterated :sarcasm:

[Tarheel_Dem]

37. ROTFLAMO.........

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Blonde, you've described them to a tee. I get so sick of people who have never won, or even run a campaign telling Obama what he should say or do. He's won a couple of elections, so I think I'll trust him over some "concerned" anonymous whiny asshole on a message board.

:toast:

[KansasVoter]

38. That is fucking brilliant logic..........

Then Kerry did nothing wrong either??? He won some elections also.

[Tarheel_Dem]

50. Repeat after me....."Obama is not Kerry". And how many elections have you won?

I'm sorry, but you whiny assed henny penny "sky is falling" people make me puke. Sounds like you need to take the o.p.'s advice as well, "grow a pair".

[Bonobo]

22. Anyone that says "grow a pair" doesn't deserve a reply. nt

[blondeatlast]

24. Very good point. nt

[blonndee]

26. No shit.

So I'm glad I can reply to you instead.

[mloutre]

23. (At the risk of stealing someone else's riff, ahem...)

[GoesTo11]

27. That's just what McCain wants

McCain's campaign thinks one move ahead.

Make crazy shit up for as long as it takes --> finally get response --> jump on the response

Here's McCain's ideal scenario.

McCain: "Obama is a doo-doohead"
Press: "Is Obama a doo-doohead? Watch McCain's ad and decide for yourself"
Obama: "I am not a doo-doohead, I use Selsun Blue Shampoo. You're the doo-doo head, doo-doohead"
McCain: "Obama has dandruff and he's being mean to me"
Press: "Why does Obama try to blame his dandruff on the War Hero McCain?"

Here's a better scenario:
McCain: "Obama is a doo-doohead"
Press: "Is Obama a doo-doohead? Watch McCain's ad and decide for yourself"
Obama: "Here's a way out of the Iraq situation."
McCain: "Obama is a poo-poohead."
Press: "McCain says Obama is a poo-poohead."
Obama: "Here's a way out of the housing crisis."
McCain: "Obama is a poopyface."
Press: "McCain has another attack ad."

If Obama just keeps not responding, all McCain can do is start to look pathetic.

Such a shame. McCain could have run an honorable campaign like he said. He would very likely have lost, but the country would have been strengthened by the debate, McCain would have been able to spend the rest of his career as an elder statesman respected by both parties. Instead, he is just making a doo-doohead of himself.

[LVjinx]

40. You actually get it... These ads are designed solely to try to get a reaction from Obama.

They aren't intended to get McCain new voters, they're trying to amplify the "Obama is thin-skinned" and the "Obama is egotistical" and "Obama plays the race card" narratives. The Obama team came very close to falling into that trap, and now the race card is in the media narrative. I suspect that the Obama camp hasn't yet realized the true purpose of these ads. McCain doesn't mind looking temporarily vindictive, if he can get Obama to react in an even more destructive way.

[mathwhiz]

29. Nobody is paying attention now

We'll know a lot more after both conventions when the polls and likely voter models will be better.

[RBInMaine]

31. Yup, he better start putting the shit to McBUSh and bigtime !

[LaurenG]

32. Not gonna happen. Calm down. sheesh. nt

[smoogatz]

33. What, you want him to have FIVE?

Won't that make him walk funny?

Boomp-ching!

[Leftist Agitator]

34. Really, we appreciate your heartfelt concern.

:rofl:

[jus_the_facts]

36. Electronic Voting Machines will make a repeat performance...

....what matters is WHO/WHAT counts the votes...not the one's who cast them. :nopity:

[BlooInBloo]

41. More mod-sanctioned Obama-is-a-wimp-ism.

[Overseas]

42. Obama HAS BEEN RESPONDING regularly to the dumb smears.

His campaign responds to a lot of the ads more officially. But I like the way Obama personally responds with casual asides or statements at campaign rallies, mostly expressing disappointment that all McCan't has are attack ads rather than positive discussion about the issues that matter to voters.

[Arkana]

43. Obama better get genetic therapy to become a WASP

and change his name to Theodore Q. McCrackerton Honky III or it will be a repeat of KERRY 2004!!!

[samsingh]

44. obama is stupidly leaving himself open to accusations of

flip flopping and giving up his principles.

and he's going to turn off his base by appearing to be too easy on the repugs.

i think he's smarter than that, but i'm not so sure.

regardless of what he does, i would still take Obama over mccain any day.

[samsingh]

45. obama is stupidly leaving himself open to accusations of

flip flopping and giving up his principles.

and he's going to turn off his base by appearing to be too easy on the repugs.

i think he's smarter than that, but i'm not so sure.

regardless of what he does, i would still take Obama over mccain any day.

[Barack_America]

46. L

[book_worm]

48. I wish all the negativity on DU would go away--we get enough of it in the media.

[azmouse]

49. blah, blah, blah....

Obama will win in November. Bet on it.

I live in AZ, right in the middle of McIdiot's home turf. No one likes him here. No signs, no bumperstickers, nothing.
Those who know him best aren't interested in voting for him.

Gobama! :patriot: