So when is the Obama campaign going to fight back? They are trying to swiftboat Obama like they did Kerry. McCain and Palin need this crap shoved down their throats. Might even point out that we don't need an army of investigators, the people of Alaska are giving out enough information voluntarily. It needs to be in a prime time ad. Point out the lies!

Where are Hillary, Nancy, and all the Democratic women who should be taking on the Palin attack?
Obama is being dragged down with no support that I can see from the DNC or the Party. He needs to be freed up from always being on the defensive with others stepping in and defending him.

Is Hillary only going to campaign where there is a fundraiser to pay off her campaign debt?

This election is the Democratic Party's to lose and the only pig with the lipstick on it will be the party's for rerunning the same stupid tactics of the past 8 years.

Continue running ads against McCain. Hit hard asking voters why he doesn't have an agenda that will address real problems.

The Palin strategy will consume itself soon enough. She's becoming as big a media joke as Britney or O.J. Let her crash and burn and take the McCain circus down with her.

After all, she's only running for second place. Let's not obsess with her the way the McCain strategists are. They are putting all their eggs in her basket. Who cares about her career when there are real problems?

McCain still doesn't have a strategy to fix the harm that Bush has done to this country. This election is about the last eight years and not making the same mistake again with McCain.

Simmer down. folks. The circus just pulled into town, but people don't continue going there after they've seen it once and realize it's all hype.

LIPSTICK?

good for you obama!

today shouting, "enough," to this lipstick sideshow by the mcsame campaign.

get real mclame. there's real issues...economy...iraq...housing...healthcare...environnment...our world standing...

LIPSTICK?

Fact Check came out with this email to their subscribers today:

Those attacks on Palin that we debunked didn't come from Obama.
Summary
A McCain-Palin ad has FactCheck.org calling Obama's attacks on Palin "absolutely false" and "misleading." That's what we said, but it wasn't about Obama.

Our article criticized anonymous e-mail falsehoods and bogus claims about Palin posted around the Internet. We have no evidence that any of the claims we found to be false came from the Obama campaign.

The McCain-Palin ad also twists a quote from a Wall Street Journal columnist. He said the Obama camp had sent a team to Alaska to "dig into her record and background." The ad quotes the WSJ as saying the team was sent to "dig dirt."

Note: This is a summary only. The full article with analysis, images and citations may be viewed on our Web site:

SO WHERE ARE THE CONSERVATIVE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS ANYWAY AND WHERE DO THEY STAND?

What, another lie and distortion, another faux attack in their smear campaign? Very becoming of a presidential election. Shame on the evangelical christians who are giving the power hungry republicans a free pass to say and do anything to win this election.

Obviously the christian community would rather see this union torn assunder, christians on one side with their radically conservative agenda and fair minded Americans on the other side.

Do christians give a damn that 47 million Americans have no health care? Apparently not!

Do christians care that global warming is occurring, is harming the environment and poses a hazard to life on earth? Apparently not!

Do christians care that a neglected educational system threatens to weaken our economy further, leaving an increaseing number of our future youth with little opportunity to succeed and care for their families? Apparently not!

Do christians care that our national debt is at near crisis proportions, that wealthy Americans aren't asked to sacrifice like everybody else, that we have wars raging and people losing their homes while the wealthy enjoy the greatest tax breaks in our history. Apparently not!

Do promises to cut into "entitlement" programs by republicans, which threaten medi-care, social security and a host of other safety net programs concern them? Apparently not!

Do christians want to restrict access to birth control, make the practice of abortion illegal,
stop stem cell research, carry on a war labeled a christian crusade, want to force the teaching of their bible in our schools, thus abdicating the role of their own religious institutions, do they want censorship of all forms of communication, do they want to exploit the environment for oil? Apparently so!

Do christians really care that the republicans have a history of distorting the truth, lying to the American public, escaping congressional iquiries, stealing legilslative powers, manipulating the justice department, ALL IN THEIR NAME? Apparently so!

Are christians complicite in this campaign? DAMN RIGHT THEY ARE, THEY OWN IT AND SHOULD BE OUTRAGED ABOUT IT, LIKE THE REST OF US!

MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON THEIR SOULS!

DEMO WOMEN STAND UP, NOT DOWN!

the time has come, pass the microphone and help obama. sitting on the sidelines or voting for mcsame1 and 2 will be same as, you've heard the phrase, "cutting off your nose to spite your face."

hillary, i voted for bill twice. i voted for you. i will vote obama-biden. your help is needed. bury the hatchet. or, we'll all lose. cannot take 4 more mcbush1 and 2. HELP!

Caldemo,

Christians do care...just not evangelicals and the Christian Wrong. They're the Pharisees. Jesus had their number 2,000 years ago.

Lets's see if those new, younger evangelicals will speak up. After inviting Hillary and Barack to participate at their forums, they owe them the courtesy of saying lying is lying on the McCain/Palin side...and it's a sin, too.

Or they willing to witness to their faith and admit that they have enabled McCain and Palin to dodge the bullet?

Why aren't they pressing them about not having a Republican agenda that addresses the needs of the poor, sick, war torn masses or the polluted Earth?

Where is their faith? I don't see them standing up for God's people in peril. Democrats of all religions are. Why aren't they?

At what point do the McCain/RNC attacks become libel or slander? How can any campaign legally get away with these kind of lies and swift boat tactics and not be slapped with a lawsuit or cease and desist order? I just don't understand how this can be accepted so matter of factly.

TIME AND TIME AGAIN, I WATCH AS KARL ROVE USES HIS EASILY MANIPULATED GAME !

He runs an ad one time, or puts up a youtube or soemthing, and the MSM picks it up, runs it for free over and over and over, and then they quietly stop their own! Right now the lipstick ad is back off the MCcain website! the assanine media fell for it again!

We HAVE to call out the MSM. TV networks, newspapers, etc! Write them, call them, tell them to quit giving free political time to McCain! My own Hartford Courant has a HUGE half page article complete with pictures of women with signs about Lipstick, etc ! Promoting this idea that Obama is against women!

If we do not stop this this time----we are through! This works, folks!! As was proven the last 2 Presidential elections!

Write your Letters to Editors TODAY! drop emails to CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc. Call them out on it. WTF!!!!!!!!!

Here's a great palin video.

This is all about wasting our time. The Republicans are trying to run out the clock and make this a campaign of propaganda warfare, rather than one of facts. They're hiding behind character assassination and bogus issues, anything to avoid addressing real policy issues.

One ongoing disappointment for me is tha fact that McCain's being allowed to get away with palying the earmark "issue." We all know that earmarks account for less than 1% of the Federal budget, and that McCain's assertions that earmark reform will help balance the budget are preposterous lies. We also know, or should know, that these are lies that have an emotional appeal to thoughtless voters, and that need to be countered promptly.

McCain's campaign strategy consists largely of a plan to lock the votes of the truly gullible, and that this strategy works if it's allowed to proceed unchallenged. Letting McCain get away with this is ill-considered.

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CalDemo on September 10, 2008 at 07:19 PM
Don't tar all us Christians with the same brush!
You can't even talk about the evangelicals as though they are a solid group. Because they aren't! Like Sandy said.
The "Christians" in the Republican party are the diehard, my way or the highway, religious wrong, who've managed to drive out the thinking and caring people, even of their own denominations out of the Republican party. Many of the younger evangelicals are following Jim Wallis, the evangelical preacher who is the founder of Sojourner's.
Check out his web site and see what the non-rabid right wing evangelicals talk about.

http://www.sojo.net/

So McCain can get away at laughing out loud after one of his constituents, in a typical town hall meeting, calls Hillary Clinton a BITCH! Just another u-tube moment or a telling portrait of the candidate who speaks out of both sides of his mouth?

I want to see more of that and all the many times McCain used that "lipstick on a pig" reference on the air, including Fix News. Put lipstick on a republican presidential campaign and it's still a republican presidential campaign.

Good thing a throng of republican strategists, who speak in tounges that only the elitist republicans can understand, are descending on Alaska to teach history, economics, political science, foreign relations, national defense, republican double speak, truth avoidance, media manipulation, Karl Rove tactics, Dick Cheney energy policy and Interior Department "in bed with oil" practices to Sarah Palin, their "president in waiting" candidate.

Instead of those journalism classes she took for her college major maybe she should have taken up political science and a host of other courses to prepare her to dedicate her personal life to serving the public like John McCain, or was that a late-in-life conversion to serve a higher purpose, i.e., her own?

She's going to go out on her own to speak to the media? HOGWASH! She is the most recent captive of the fascist right wing, who will now utilize their tactics to do a cosmetic makeover (oops, bad reference) of her previous experiences as mayor and governor. She'll just start lying like all republican candidates do, THEY RUN TO THE MIDDLE DURING THE CAMPAIGN AND GOVERN FROM THE RIGHT WHEN IN OFFICE.

Does anybody but evangelical christians and republican right wing supporters really expect a McCain or shallow Palin to not follow orders from the Karl Roves, Tom DeLays, Rush Limbaughs, Dick Cheneys of the world? Was Bush capable of an independent thought in the last eight years? Give me a break!

ENOUGH!

CalDem,

I read the stories where Rove wanted McCain to choose Romney as the VP. McCain wanted Lieberman but the roar from the RNC base was too loud, so he revolted and chose Palin! Now I saw Rove sitting there at the Convention like this was all his idea and strategy!

You KNOW these lipstick , sex ed, and other filthy smear tactics are all his!

These guys make me laugh. They act like they are so pious, so moral family value type of guys, yet they don't understand one thing. they cannot go crawling into heaven and kiss God's ass and think he is going to forgive and forget all the evil they did on earth!