Give me a re-cap. I’m still at work on the west coast!
Hold on. I’m listening to Chris Matthews gush.
Wow. That was great.
And I couldn’t help but notice John McCain’s name wasn’t mentioned once.
Chris Matthews gushing was the most amazing thing I have ever heard. I mean, I was more stunned by that than by the program itself!
you too? Here’s the thing I realized while I was getting all emotional and hopeful. It may well be that we will see Barack’s “just another politician” side while he is in office. It may be that he will cave to some of the less attractive habits that have made Washington so ineffective and left us so jaded. The beauty of it is, is that we don’t have to shrug our shoulders and accept it and slink back into disillusionment and political apathy. We can hold him and our elected officials to promises made, and we can insist on some serious changes. He closed by encouraging us to stay involved in our democracy. Let’s make a commitment to do that. Let’s change how elections are financed. Let’s insist our elected officials be open and accountable to us. If not , out they go. Then we’ll keep doing it until someone gets the message. Republican, Democrat, Independent, whomever. Just someone who communicates sincerely and wants to serve with a bit of integrity.
It was a very positive, upbeat message. It presented well, looked professional and was actually informative.
Look for this to take up a day or two of news coverage. That’s two days McCain doesn’t benefit by free news coverage.
Okay - as far as this kinda thing goes. As someone who has been paying attention, I was a tad surprised how much of the footage I had seen before. Not just the convention speech, and the debates, but also the bit about his mom waking him up early to study. But I guess it was quite well put together, and can see how it might impress anyone who is braindead enough to still be undecided! 
Thought the old black guy must get a kick out of jamming the blues on national TV. And the kid showing her school colors at the grocery store!
Its gotta suck being McCain, and simply not having the cash to compete with that kind of media buy.
The one thing that bothered me, that I have noticed in the past, is that he really does not support nuclear energy. Didn’t even mention it. That’s one of the very few issues on which I disagree with him.
msnbc does crack me up. here in battleground pa, there were 2 mccain ads in the first commercial break after the obama ad.
xanthous, there were video clips of people who are having trouble making ends meet. paying for prescription drugs, losing pensions, and school teachers.
after each vid. it would go to either obama in an office talking about how he would change things for them.
sometimes it would go to rallys where the answer was in a speech.
also there were bits of him talking about his mum. and michelle obama talking about him at home with the girls.
there were clips of people talking about him and what he did in the i.l. state senate and the u.s. senate.
it ended with him at a rally in florida putting an !!! onto the video.
msnbc then went to commercial which was a mccain ad.
McCain ads are heavy on the CNN channel on Sirius. At almost every break. One anti-O followed immediately by one anti-Dem control of Congress.
Yep. That was a bit of a buzz kill.
Available online anywhere? I don’t have cable 
It’s linked on Huffington Post
You’re so awesome; thank you!
Brilliant. Did exactly what it was meant to do. Glad to see Kentucky thrown in there and Missouri.
I’m psyched.
F A N T A S T I C…
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To beat the champion, and make him stay down, you must knock him out cold.*
THIS WAS THE KNOCK-OUT PUNCH OBAMA NEEDED.
*Glance not at the has-been lame duck incumbent, ignore the mudslinger attack dog running-mate bully governor, and stand over your opponent with your head held high like Cassius Clay, errrr… Mohammed Ali. There was a rumble in the Jungle, but the fight didn’t last the full 15 rounds. It ended in the 12th.
[SIZE=“4”]There can ONLY be one.
We shall wait for McSame to stand up before the count of 7, errrr…, days.
Until then, there will be no raising of arms and no dancing around the ring, but any attempt to get up before the count of 7 will result in an immediate un-merciful punch where the sun don’t shine.
Stay down Johnny, stay down.[/SIZE]*:p:cool:
McCain talked about ‘the tape’ with Larry King for a good few minutes. He pretty much implies that Obama is cheering on terrorists on the tape. But he was sure to stress ‘he hasn’t seen it because the media won’t let the American people watch it.’
So I take it you liked the video then?
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…Wh…
…Buh?
He said something about never having heard of a major media not releasing a tape that the public should see, or something. I don’t know. I am a nervous freakin’ wreck until November 4th.
Just 7 months ago, I didn’t know if I would vote at all. Now, I can’t freakin’ wait.
The “tape” McCain is referring to is the alleged tape of Obama at a dinner with Rashid Khalidi, a professor at Columbia University with ties to the PLO. But what McCain doesn’t want you to know is: