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Politico: Obama to pre-empt McCain assault by launching ads calling McCain 'erratic'
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Ooooohhhhh.... maverick temper gonna go boom! Branding his opponent as “erratic in a crisis,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans. Obama officials call it political jujitsu – turning the attacks back on the attacker. McCain officials had said early in the weekend that they plan to begin advertising after Tuesday’s debate that will tie Obama to convicted money launderer Tony Rezko and former Weathermen radical William Ayers. But ...

Obama Will Preempt McCain Attack Ads
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — "Branding his opponent as 'erratic in a crisis,' Sen. Barack Obama is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans," according to Politico. ...

Obama to preempt McCain assault
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... cable stations with a scathing ad saying: “Three quarters of a million jobs lost this year. Our financial system in turmoil. And John McCain? Erratic in a crisis. Out of touch on the economy. No wonder his campaign wants to change the subject. “Turn the page on the financial crisis by launching dishonorable, dishonest ‘assaults’ against Barack Obama. Struggling families can't turn the page on this economy, and we can't afford another president who is this out of touch.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14283.html

Sarah Palin, Secret Agent Of The Left
Oliver Willis — For the second time in as many days, Sarah Palin has publicly expressed disagreement with the McCain campaign’s decision to pull out of Michigan (a decision the state party is lamenting in public as well). This gives McCain two options: 1) Stay the course: This makes his running mate look like more of a ninny and adds to the state party’s malaise 2) Flip flop: Wastes money in a state he’s going to lose anyway, and feeds into the erratic and desperate John McCain narrative This discord also helps to show the public once again which ...

Fire at will
Belmont Club — It’s called going pre-emptively negative.  The Politico says that the Obama campaign has decided that since John McCain is about to launch “dishonorable” attacks on Barack Obama, the Democratic Presidential candidate will go extremely negative first. Branding his opponent as “erratic in a crisis,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans. Obama officials call it political jujitsu – turning the attacks back on the attacker. McCain officials had said early in the weekend ...

In Preemptive Attack, Obama Ad to Call MCain “Erratic”
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... TV spot going up Monday will slam the Arizonan for his response to the economic crisis: “Erratic in a crisis. Out of touch on the economy. No wonder his campaign wants to change the subject.” Response to new attacks expected Tuesday, when McCain camp will hammer Obama’s ties to Rezko and Ayers.        ...

Obama to Pre-emptively Attack McCain
Political Punch — ... ."We are looking forward to turning a page on this financial crisis and getting back to discussing Mr. Obama's aggressively liberal record and how he will be too risky for Americans." The Obama campaign plans on taking Strimple's expressed desire to "turn...a page on this financial crisis" against McCain, to characterize all attacks on Obama as desperation to change the subject. As first reported by Politico's Mike Allen Saturday evening, Obama has a new TV ad, too, that says: "Three quarters of a million jobs lost this year. Our financial system in turmoil. And John ...

War and Piece — Politico : "Branding his opponent as 'erratic in a crisis,' Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans. ... But Obama isn’t waiting to respond. His campaign is going up Monday on national cable stations with a scathing ad saying: 'Three quarters of a million jobs lost this year. Our financial system in turmoil. And John McCain? Erratic in a crisis. Out of touch on the economy. No wonder his campaign wants to change the subject.'" Also from ...

McCain's Character At Issue: Beyond The Temperament Trap
Open Left - Front Page — ... course the Barretts are lying and spinning about McCain's temperament issues.  That goes without saying.  But narrow scope of the "temperament" frame makes their job soooo much easier, and makes the job of getting at the truth so much harder at the same time. Right now, the McCain campaign is shifting totally into attack mode against Barack Obama, and they're about to get intensely focuses on character smears. The Politico reports that Obama is ready, "Exclusive: Obama to call McCain 'erratic in crisis'": Branding his ...

Obama's preemptive attack
Political Animal — ... its plan to shift the campaign discussion away from substantive issues, and towards William Ayers and Tony Rezko. The plan, apparently, is to begin a fresh round of baseless attack ads after Tuesday night's debate. Tomorrow, the Obama campaign will begin airing a preemptive ad, "turning the attacks back on the attacker," as Mike Allen ...

Obama Launches Ad And Preemptive Plans To Counter McCain Negative Offensive
The Moderate Voice — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama will be airing an ad that is part of a preemptive political strike against several reports — confirmed by campaign rhetoric over the past 48 hours — that GOP Sen. John McCain’s campaign is planning a major negative offensive to try and to make Obama himself the big election issue rather than the ailing economy. The Politico reports: Branding his opponent as “erratic in a crisis,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as ...

Why It (Probably) Won't Work
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — ... The Obama campaign does face a bit of a dilemma. By responding to the attacks aggressively -- as they seem inclined to do -- they may be able to mitigate their impact, and possibly turn them around on John McCain. But they also keep the story in the news. The Obama campaign can't afford to be swiftboated, but it also wants to be careful not to make this the story for more than a couple of news cycles. ...

AP: Palin’s a racist for bringing up Ayers, or something
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... over the next month and how Team Barry’s planning a little “preemptive” action . Here’s part of the preemption, courtesy of the AP: Mention Obama’s connection to a white domestic terrorist and you’re a racist.“Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country,” Palin told a group of donors in Englewood, Colo. A deliberate attempt to smear Obama, McCain’s ticket-mate echoed the line at three separate events Saturday.“This is not a man who sees America like ...

'Turn the page'
Political Animal — ... ." It's a quote Strimple probably wishes now he hadn't made. The Obama campaign's Dan Pfeiffer told the Politico yesterday that McCain's "desire to avoid discussing the economy is something we will remind voters of everyday for the next month." And according to the prepared text of a speech Obama is scheduled to deliver today in Asheville, North Carolina, the senator is taking full advantage of the opportunity. "[O]n Friday, we learned that we'd lost another 159,000 American jobs in September. It was the ninth straight month of job losses -- more than three quarters of a ...

Bill Ayers? Awww…He’s a Pussycat and Barack Hardly Knows the Chap!
The Sundries Shack — ... For his part, Obama has done Karate Kid on the McCain campaign with some “political jujitsu”. He’s accusing John McCain of being ineffective in handling the mortgage crisis and counting on there being no reporting at all about how ...

Beware, Halloween is coming and so are the right-wing kooks
Tammy Bruce — ... the slavering right-wing bigots all stirred up. They are those scary, clingy people with guns and we surely have to worry, don't we? Isn't it interesting that a former bomber left-wing radical's association with a presidential candidate isn't considered mildly dangerous, but the people's reaction to that fact is? Now is the time to compare Palin's alarms to Rev. Wright's ranting screeds since we're talking about inciting people. Unfortunately McCain won't let the campaign bring up Rev. Wright again. ...