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

August 31, 2008 
Category: The Situation Room | 3 Comments

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

August 25, 2008 
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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

To John McCain: Beware What You Wish For Obama

July 25, 2008 
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John McCain must have committed his most costly mistake of the presidential campaign.

His most costly mistake is not that he has flip-flopped more substantially, and on more substantial issues, than Barack Obama. On that front, the scores are easily settled. Read more

Independent Run, if necessary — Country & its People more important than any Party — Creating a Party of the People to be Led by a Candidate of the People

May 10, 2008 
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Where do informed people of conscience regardless of age, race, economics, gender, sexual interest, religious affiliation, et cetera go if the election is “stolen” by Senator Clinton and the Superdelagates particularly if it is stolen by as person who is even more hawkish on war (Senator Clinton’s nuclear umbrella over the Middle East area) than even McCain? Read more

Keys to Absolute Victory: Obama Now Needs to Launch a “State of the Race” Ad Blitz to Blunt Hillary Clinton

May 9, 2008 
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With the nomination virtually his, the last thing Barack Obama needs now is concede any type of ground to Hillary Clinton. The mistake, at this point, which Obama seems to already be committing, is to basically cede states such as West Virginia, Kentucky, and Puerto Rico, where Hillary Clinton is expected to win by wide margins according to polls (The remaining primaries are scheduled as so: West Virginia (05/13), Oregon (05/20), Kentucky (05/20), Puerto Rico (06/01), Montana (06/03), and South Dakota (06/03)). Read more

The Other Bold Speech that Obama Needs to Give to Make the Reverend Wright Controversy Go Away

April 29, 2008 
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The cruel irony about Jeremiah Wright is that Reverend Wright is the only person in America who can bring down Barack Obama, and he did. He is also the only person in America who could have “saved” Barack Obama. And he chose not to. In a previous article we published on Mach 16 shortly after the Wright controversy broke out, we had advised the Obama campaign about the urgency of holding a press conference and letting Obama make a historic speech that would ease the controversy and reassert him as the candidate of real change. We were happy to see that the Obama campaign did exactly what we had advocated, both in terms of the content of the sample speech we had provided, but also in terms of the form of it: he read the speech at a place of historic significance in Pennsylvania. While this speech did Obama great good in, indeed, easing the controversy, the ugly head of Wright has surfaced again, but this time with the kind of vengeance that is now threatening to lose Obama the nomination. Read more

Dear Mr. Clinton

April 29, 2008 
Category: The Poetry Room | 1 Comment

I see your true colors shining through
You loved America’s black people,
When we were voting for you
But now Mr. Clinton you have crossed the line

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

April 13, 2008 
Category: The Situation Room | 5 Comments

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

March 16, 2008 
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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

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