Small Lines Barack Obama Could Use Against John McCain to Beat Him to The Punch

One interesting strategy that Barack Obama finally unveiled, and successfully used, in his historic convention speech on Thursday (which he brilliantly delivered with both gusto and substance), was to encapsulate each of John McCain’s charges against him into a small soundbite, and provide a rebuttal to each, one by one. One such punch line related to the McCain “Gates of Hell” attack. Obama finally rebutted this in his speech by saying: “John McCain likes to say that he’ll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell – but he won’t even go to the cave where he lives.” Read more

Two things Hillary Clinton could say and do at the Convention (and thereafter) to get her supporters to back Barack Obama

There is no doubt Hillary Clinton has been highly ambiguous in her support (or lack thereof) of Barack Obama since finally giving up her bid for the presidency of the United States of America back in June (Well, she did not actually give it up; she suspended her campaign). Because of this ambiguity, which never translated into a true acknowledgment of defeat, nor into a true expression of closure, Hillary Clinton has, directly or indirectly, contributed to the fueling of the rampant speculations that have presented the Democratic Party as highly divided going into the August 25 Convention in Denver. Read more