McCain's old though. His generation was told to let them cry it out and sleep on the tummy and all that crap. And don't try to tell them different; they get all pissy if you even hint they didn't know how to take care of babies.

It all boils down to swing voters in OH, MI, PA, VA.

the McCain attacks do have the effect of shifting the media debate to is Obama a foreigner loving arrogant blah blah blah.

IOW it takes Obama off his message.

To respond Obama need to slam McCain and GOP as bringing Ms. Middle American more economic devastation and gouging by bad corporations, more deficit, moare abandonment of tradit. US ideals/Const., more letting OBL get away, etc. etc.

I'm not seeing this kind of nuts and bolts attack from Obama.

Meanwhile MR. Dick Morris is saying Obama is behind among older women. This is shocking. Of btw don't slam me for what Morris says -- it's either true or it aint' and no one hates HRC more than he does.

It seems to me the obvious solution to get OBama over the top and nail it down is...yup you guessed it....HRC for VP.

Kaine is a first term governor. Biden has no economic credentials and really isn't known and is a lousy debater and campaigner -- he didn't win one primary!

Richardson ditto and I think Obama has NV CO NM anyway.

Bayh of IN -- what a joke. We're going to win Indiana? WTF?

Why is Obama afraid he can't work with HRC? She's too powerful and scary?

Only a wuss would think he couldn't work with her.

The no. candidate with 18 million votes and lots of primary victories is the obvious choice to get that last 5% nailed down in those states we all love to hate out here. We don't want Obama to top out at 46% or to have polls where he does 5% less well on election day than what the polls showed, as ocurred in several primaries.

OK, now everyone attack HRC for being too centrist (like OBama doesn't move to center) for playing old politics of loyalty and payback (like Slog didn't praise Obama for doing the same thing with Gregoire) and for being scandal ridden (like 95% of it isn't concocted by the GOP) and for being a tough bitch who fights like hell (like this isn't what we want in a candidate/leader cuz when it's a guy we just love it).

Bonus: he becomes her boss. Don't you Clinton detesters want him in control of her??

See: Doris Goodwin, Team of Rivals, etc.

But y'know, if we are going to have a nasty, little game of character assassination, why not embrace that and go on the offensive? I was switching around the TV last night and happened upon "Larry King Live." There was right-winger Ben Stein stating as a given what a great man of character John McCain is. And there was left-winger Paul Krugman letting that statement go absolutely unchallenged.

You want to talk about character and values? John McCain cheated on his first wife, who was disabled. He ended up leaving his wife with whom he had--what? three children?--for another woman. This is the man you want to hold up as a model of all-American character and values?

I'm not saying the Obama campaign itself should play as dirty as the McCain campaign is all too happy to. But that doesn't mean everyone else who supports Obama can't.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/31/seattles-planet-saving-plan-jump-rope-draw-chalk-art/

There's enough small-minded bigotry that this strategy might work, but no one should mistake it for anything like a principled difference in political opinion.

And this is what it takes to get Erica behind Obama. Someone accuses him of having a vagina, suddenly she's an Obamaniac.

That's the closest McCain's been in a while according to Gallup.

Responding to (un)PC @3. I wish you had as much passion and concern for the fate of your country as you apparently do for Hillary Clinton. I have no problem with Hillary as veep, but the VP speculation is just another beauty contest and a gossip-fest that continues to keep this campaign from being about actual issues.

If you have to follow postings on the Far-Right the least you could do was pick someone with a little bit of intelligence.

If you want to understand unPC, realize she only cares about her beloved white race, not any country.

http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/28230/The-Ten-Most-Controversial-Provisions-of-the-Housing-Bill-/

6. Credit Card Tracking – Here’s another provision that will collect a huge amount of private information for the government. Deep inside the bill is a program requiring banks to to track, aggregate, and report information on all credit and debit card transactions to the IRS. FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey had this to say about it: “This is a provision with astonishing reach, and it was slipped into the bill just this week. Not only does it affect nearly every credit card transaction in America, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express, but the bill specifically targets payment systems like eBay’s PayPal, Amazon, and Google Checkout that are used by many small online businesses. The privacy implications for America’s small businesses are breathtaking.”

The Stranger was right! People can be taught! Or, maybe not.