Here Comes The McCain/Palin Kitchen Sink: Obama Must Duck, This Way.

Here we go again, with McCain planning a last-ditch effort, a sort of 29-day kitchen-sink blitz, aimed at unseating Barack Obama before the crucial November 4 vote. Various news reports, including the McCain campaign itself on various talk shows this Sunday, have all pointed to a new kitchen-sink strategy aimed at emphasizing Barack Obama’s past associations (Ayers, Wright, Rezko, etc.) with a view to questioning both his judgment and patriotism. Read more

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

What Barack Obama Should Say to Make the Pennsylvania “Small-Town People” Controversy Go Away

Barack Obama has continued to demonstrate an incredible inability to hit back at Hillary Clinton, even in the context of very favorable circumstances. In all appearance, the media seems to have attempted to cut him some slack in the past few weeks, and Hilary Clinton has had a number of difficult weeks due to issues such as her made-up Kosovo story and the more recent Colombian gaffe by Mark Penn, her chief campaign strategist. In all, the campaign environment has been going great for Obama, and the polls have been showing him gaining ground in Pennsylvania, until he himself made the recent “small-town people” comments that put him on the defensive again. And of course, as could have been expected, Hillary Clinton pounced on those remarks with a vengeance, and McCain joined the chorus in amplifying words by Obama that were, in fact, describing the reality of the America of today: people ARE bitter AND frustrated about the way this country has been run by the Bush administration. Read more

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. Controversy: The Bold Speech that Barack Obama Should Give to Make It All Go Away

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. controversy has been the biggest, and perhaps, the most daunting challenge that the Obama campaign has had to deal with to date. It has become clearer and clearer, with the sudden TV and YouTube appearances of a number of despicable videos showing an enraged Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. engaged in clearly-disturbing racist and anti-American diatribes, that the fallout would be very costly to Barack Obama in the political arena. Read more

Canada, NAFTA, Tony Rezko and Barack Obama: Time and Ways to Avoid Further Embarrassment

How and why the Canada/NAFTA/Obama impasse developed so easily and so fast into a harmful story with long legs is puzzling. The issue was so badly handled by the Obama campaign that it suggests the people around Barack Obama have begun to construct a bubble of illusion and aloofness from reality around the candidate. Mistakes such as the Canada/NAFTA debacle should never have been allowed to happen, and should never have happened. And the mishandling of such mistakes in the media can only fuel further acrimony, suspicion and controversy, and give more ammunition to a Clinton side so desperate for stories and scandals that could sink Barack Obama and lend some credibility to the Clintons’ contention that the whole Obama phenomenon is, in fact, a mere fairytale. Read more

Has Hillary Been a Bad Girl? Hillary Clinton Plagiarizes during the Very Same Debate She Was Laying the Charge of Plagiarism Against Barack Obama

During the CNN/Univision-sponsored debate on Thursday, Feb. 21, the Hillary Clinton charge was unambiguous. In her response to a probe by the panel of journalists, Hillary Clinton, once again, accused Barack Obama of having plagiarized lines from a 2006 campaign speech that Deval Patrick had given in his then victorious bid for the office of governor of Massachusetts. Read more

How Should Barack Obama Respond to Hillary Clinton’s Plagiarism Charge?

February 18 was a day when the Hillary Clinton campaign finally got the chance it vwas waiting for: It tried to take advantage of one of the rare “mistakes” ever committed by Barack Obama since the candidate launched his bid for president of the United States. Read more