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Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 15:47:10 PM EDT
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Joe Sudbay, posting over at John Aravosis' blog, is getting worried. So is John, and John drank so much Kool-Aid his tongue is purple. See, Obama consolidated power in the democratic movement, shutting down independent 527s like MoveOn by discouraging his campaign supporters from contributing to them. In Obama's business model, all money goes through Chicago, and he'll run the show. That may not have been a smart idea... listen to Joe:
I've had a bad feeling about the direction of the campaign for the past couple weeks. We've been saying for months that McCain and the GOP would go negative, very negative. No surprise. That is what's happening. Karl Rove and his crew are at their best destroying people and they're running the show now. The latest tracking polls seem to indicate that McCain's negative attacks are having an impact. The corollary is that Obama's response hasn't been working, or at least it hasn't been enough. That needs to change, fast.
...and John:
Obama seems pretty much on his own in facing down McCain's increasingly nasty attacks ...the conventional wisdom is that the best way to respond to these kind of attacks is to respond in kind, and blow them out of the water ...
You do that with the candidate himself sometimes, ...but more often you use outside groups and surrogate members of Congress, and other third parties, like the blogs, talk radio, etc. But in this case, our outside groups were shut down a few months ago, so they're gone, and many of their staff, some of the top political people in town, aren't even working on the election at all now. As for Democratic Senators and House Members, they've been oddly silent over the past week or two, and at least don't seem part of any larger, public, and coordinated strategy to counterattack.
It's no mystery to me why Congressional Democrats are quiet. They are supporting Obama, knowing he'll lose, so that they can get their hands on his money and donor list. Usually, Democrats snatch defeat from the jaws of victory after Labor Day. This one was a done deal by Memorial Day, it seems.
As they used to tell fighters when the Mob needed to make a little money, "Obama, it's just not your night." |
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"Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. When you stumble, keep faith. When you?re knocked down, get right back up. And NEVER listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on."
Hillary Clinton - June 7, 2008
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