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: Dukakis/Obama Mashup
The usual caveats apply, lots of time to win this thing, etc, but this mashup is worth watching. Update : Look, get mad at Obama, he's the one running a campaign that is entirely bent on weak reaction. Here's Joe Biden. John McCain is my friend," said the loquacious Blue Hen. "I admire John ...
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Obama's Swiftboat Complex
The Next Right — The netroots is engaged in some spirited discussion about the lameness of Obama's responses to Palin. But the problem, and what I believe this video gets at, is that Democrats look at everything about negative politics through the prism of response rather than attack, defense rather than offense. Michael Dukakis's failure to respond in 1988 has become something of a creation myth, spawning the legendary Clinton war room in 1992. Their job? Leave no attack unanswered. ...

9/11: It's Happening Again...
Blogometer — ... hope to put Obama on defense every day to win 'the message war'? Superficially, the McCain campaign's move may be offensive but it is a strategy borne out of a position of weakness, namely that they know that if this campaign becomes about issues, they lose and if there is any real scrutiny of Sarah Palin beyond the cult of personality coverage they lose." Interestingly, conservative blogger Patrick Ruffini seems to agree with Kurtz : "The netroots is engaged in some spirited discussion about the lameness of Obama's responses to Palin. But the problem, ...

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