Politico: Obama wins the day (4th straight)

[scheming daemons]

Final score: Obama wins the day
By Politico Staff

Or maybe that should be: "McCain loses the day." A day after trying to explain his way out of his suggestion that the American economy is "strong," McCain still lacked a serious, persuasive response to the week's financial upheaval. The candidate started the day with a feint toward policy talk, suggesting that a 9/11-style commission should examine the causes of the teetering market. Any substance behind that suggestion, though, got drowned out by a series of unhelpful comments made by advisors Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who implied that McCain helped invent the BlackBerry, and Carly Fiorina, who told MSNBC that Sarah Palin wouldn't be qualified to run Hewlett-Packard.

McCain seized on a more aggressive message toward the end of the day, attacking Obama for attending fundraisers in Hollywood tonight and vigorously condemning the behavior of Wall Street executives. But while these comments might attract some attention, they don't do much to present McCain as the candidate who can actually fix the economy.

Obama, on the other hand, seemed energized by the continued focus on the economy, keeping up the heat on McCain for his comments yesterday and beginning to outline his own campaign's approach to rethinking market regulation. As tracking polls showed McCain's narrow lead eroding, Obama showed no sign of backing off the pugilistic stance he adopted Monday. The Democratic candidate hasn't reversed his opponent's post-convention momentum just yet, but if the McCain team doesn't get its act together soon its polling edge could go the way of Lehman Brothers.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13181.html

[mwooldri]

1. I just love the last line:

"but if the McCain team doesn't get its act together soon its polling edge could go the way of Lehman Brothers."

Let's hope they don't get their act together.

Mark.

[MichDem10]

2. Please God - make it so!!!

[me b zola]

4. McCain/Lehman '08

Has a certain ring to it! :kick:

[Cha]

6. What act? Oh, the Lying, Hypocritical, Don't have a fresh idea

so I need to copycat act! That one.

[Kdillard]

3. Obama and Joe just need to keep hitting them hard. I also would love it if they

did a joint rally again at the end of the week. Just to cap it off.

[Cha]

5. 5th Rec'd! Is this why mccain surlily, in his monotone, told mika he

knew she was an Obama supporter when he was on morning joe's 'cause he didn't like the softball question she asked?

Too bad politico didn't mention the big bucks "fundraisers" mccain and mooselini attend since he's whining about Obama and Barbra.

[Imagevision]

7. Obama was smart to just drop the Palin issue and get back on McBush!

[ShadowLiberal]

9. I agree, that and the bad economic news is really helping him

I think his ad attacking McCain on equal pay for women is maybe his best attack ad this year so far to, and he just started airing it in some places.

[Dinger]

8. That's all Well And Good, But

Jesus politico Christ, I am sick of people referring to them (politico) ad nauseum.
It is good news they bring, but I think most people here know that they are not as friendly to Dems as they are to the repugs.