DNC VIDEO- Palin, Bachmann: The Loon Rangers!

By GottaLaff

Okay, the DNC didn't call them the Loon Rangers. That's a name I came up with awhile back. But if the lunacy fits:

DNC asks supporters to take on Palin's 'lies'

By GottaLaff

President Obama did say recently, if you recall, that he's willing to call out those who spread lies. Well, here we go, it's come to this: Dems v. Facebook, er, Palin the Blogger:

The Democratic National Committee is taking fresh aim at Sarah Palin, encouraging supporters to attack the former Alaska governor on Facebook in order to "debunk her lies."

Debunking her bunk could be a full time career for anyone with time on their hands.

In an e-mail to supporters, and on a new Web site, the DNC asks supporters to call out Palin when she uses Facebook to transmit what the committee says are falsehoods.

It's time to stop the propaganda in its tracks, and all those trusty Facebook cub reporters will now be on their toes. Grassrootsers are the new rapid response team.

Fighting back. Hmmm, this all has a familiar ring to it.

DNC about to get louder on Obama agenda

By GottaLaff

I just posted about the NRSC video launch attacking President Obama. Now the DNC is about to get going on behalf of the Obama agenda:

The Democratic National Committee is about to crank up the speakers. As part of its campaign to sell President Obama's agenda, DNC HQ will double the size of its communications and research operation to make sure that even tiny, local pro-Obama efforts, like the weekend nationwide neighborhood canvassing for the president's budget, get a voice and some press.

That's the spirit. Effective rapid response would be swell. Big time campaigning, media blitzing... go for it. Hey, I bet we bloggers would be a welcome addition, right?

"It's going to be like a general election for president," says Brad Woodhouse, the new DNC communications and research boss. That means rapid response, regional media help, and party bloggers. One reason for the expansion is to take advantage of the Obama campaign's E-mail list of 13 million. The Obama campaign arm, Organizing for America, is also being folded into the DNC. The party, says Woodhouse, "has never before been used to pass a president's agenda."

Unity.

Obama Response to Gramm-pa McCain's "Faith" Comment

By GottaLaff

Chronology:

Earlier Saturday: McCain seizes on Obama's comment that his Iowa caucuses victory "vindicated" his faith in the American people.

“My country has never had to prove anything to me, my friends. I have always had faith in it and I have been humbled and honored to serve it."

Response:

From Obama spokesman Bill Burton:

"It's pathetic that John McCain would take a statement Barack Obama has been making for a year about his faith in the American people and distort it to attack his patriotism. Sadly, this is what we've come to expect from a desperate, dishonorable campaign that will say anything in a failed attempt to win this election."

As I type this, Obama is speaking in Colorado, and having a great time dissing Cheney's endorsement of Gramm-pa McCain. That endorsement gave him just the opening he needed to tie Grammps to Bush/Cheney tighter than Cindy McCain's facelift. It's deeee-lightful.

VIDEO: Negative attack ads won't cut it any more, Gramm-pa McCain

By GottaLaff

Rapid response in action. Guess who's not going to get away with SwiftBoating this time around?

Script:

CHYRON: John McCain readying a newly aggressive assault on Sen. Barack Obamas character. [Washington Post, 10/04/08]

VIDEO: Montage of McCain attack ads

CHYRON: John McCain is looking forward to turning a page on this financial crisis. [Washington Post, 10/04/08]

VIDEO: Montage of McCain attack ads

MCAIN: Im John McCain and I approved this message.

MCCAIN: Uh, I, I just have to rely on the good judgment of the voters not to buy into these negative attack ads. Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you dont have much of a vision for the future or you're not ready to articulate it. [The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, 2/21/2000]

CHYRON: John McCain: We Can't Afford More of the Same

Obama team responds to IWRC* Palin's smears

By GottaLaff

Swift response to Swiftboat tactics:

The Obama campaign responded swiftly to Palin’s comments. “Governor Palin’s comments, while offensive, are not surprising, given the McCain campaign’s statement this morning that they would be launching Swiftboat-like attacks in hopes of deflecting attention from the nation’s economic ills.” Obama-Biden spokesman Hari Sevugan said in a statement released by Obama’s campaign. “In fact, the very newspaper story Governor Palin cited in hurling her shameless attack made clear that Senator Obama is not close to Bill Ayers, much less ‘pals,’ and that he has strongly condemned the despicable acts Ayers committed 40 years ago, when Obama was eight. What’s clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy,” Sevugan added.

Gramm-pa McCain and IWRC are dying to change the subject and redirect the limited attention span of the media to a simplistic war of words. The economy is too complicated and painful. This is easily understood and can be reduced to sub-human, sewer-level entertainment.

*"In What Respect, Charlie?"

A birthday present from us to John Sidney McCain

By GottaLaff

Hey J Sid, blow out this:

The McCain campaign is hoping to bury the news in the announcement of his running mate — but the Democrats have a different way of marking the big day, Washington Wire has learned. They plan to celebrate with the septuagenarian all weekend, accusing him of being close with President Bush by throwing “More of the Same” birthday parties on Friday and Saturday in key states like Ohio and Pennsylvania.

A Democratic Party insider said local officials and voters will deliver birthday cakes to the parties, complete with 72 candles, that read “Another Year of More of the Same.”

I could make all the usual jokes about how J Sid would need someone else to blow at all those candles for him, or how if he does blow them out, he'll need oxygen, or about wondering if he'll remember what day it is and having Joe Lieberman whisper it in his ear... but that would be rude and tasteless, so I won't.

They’ll also tie in the festivities to the vice presidential pick, calling the person “a gift to himself,” that person said. At the announcement event in Dayton, Ohio, on Friday, the Democratic National Committee plans to park their mobile billboard that features Bush and McCain hugging.

You mean this picture?

The parties will take place in Dayton and Youngstown, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Erie, Washington and Harrisburg, Pa.; Denver; Phoenix; and Washington, D.C.

McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds declined to comment on the festivities.

Okay, J Sid... blow!

McCain/Bush: Separated at Birth

By GottaLaff



Just a little reminder.