I think Micelle Obama is the greatest. It was while watching her interview with Larry King last year that I felf myself become wholly an Obama supporter.

its very very nice good page.

warm and fuzzy is all the demos know

wait until the repub are on then you will see attack after attack and it will work

obama is about to join gore and kerry in whining about how unfair the repubs are

if they would just quit saying that the american people are smart enough to figure out attack ads dont work.

yes they do work and bush jr is living proof they work. at least mc war is smart enough to figure out he must go the way of rove if he wants to win in nov.

the american people are not even smart enough to know that reagan economics is eliminating them as a middle class.

they lined up to vote for reagan and now we borrow from communists, socialists, and kings to made it work.

and then we brag to the world how great america is. yea that is smart real smart.

come on a political party that can create a cold war with russia two months before an election between a black guy that did not serve in the military and a so called war hero.

that is smart no genius. the demos never had a clue or a chance. in their hearts americans are imperialists and one must cater to that national imperialism to win elections.

rove is one of the few in this country that has understood what I just stated.

This is not a comment on Michelle Obama's character, street cred, or dues paid.

However, the presentation of her last night at the convention was shamelessly disgusting and it's too bad she's not Catholic because if she was she'd be Saint Michelle.

Of particular hilarity was the way that "Senator" Matthew's and Keith Olbermann's brains melted and turned into incoherent mush. "Ooogle booole waaaa," said Matthews. "Gooodie woogle moooodible", agreed Olbermann.

Our media has lost it. They are incapable of distinguishing a high-tech Hollywood political theater production from reality.

Boy, it sucks to be a voter this year.

Unless you look at the 3rd party candidates. Nader is looking better by the second. You have to understand that if you're a Democrat, and if that means you are for the working class, you're for ending the US military involvement in the middle east, if you're for single payer health care, if you're for ending government spying on you, and if you're for fair trade deals that don't end up putting you into competition with pisanos from Mexico, you're going to have to shift your paradigm. Because Obama is on the wrong side of every single one of those issues. I know he has a lovely wife, I know they walk on water, I know he was a community organizer, I know all that. But the bottom line is that he's part of the Democratic political machine from Chicago. You don't get to where he's got by being Saint Obama.

Wake up, America. Wipe the stardust from your eyes and start looking at what the candidates are actually going to try to accomplish if they take office.

Why are the MSM ignoring the third party candidates? Why are the progressive media ignoring them too... the media who should be in their court won't even tell you that Nader is polling at 6% of the vote right now and that he will take the election away from Obama.

Why are they not covering that?

Hmmmmmmmm.

-Wexler

Michelle's speech was excellent - and neccessary - this is a nation fixated on flag pins - this is a nation that has forced Obama to dace to the tune of the national anthem - this is a nation that is too willing to accept that Michelle is an angry black owman - a racist according to the smears on right wing blogs. She gave a heratfelt speech, covering all the bases, and still, it's never right for the media. If she had attacked, she'd be smeared by the right as angry, if she goes concilitory, she's smeared by the left as warm and fuzzy. Corn is right - will Cindy make a speech like that?
She couldn't...

Same old "Corn on the cob."

What a load of malarkey!

"Obama and his campaign did not display the toughness and steeliness that will be required in the weeks ahead."

And if the convention had started on a "trash Bush/McCain" note you and the M$M (which you seem to mirror more often than not these days) would be naysaying about how ugly will it get?

Come on DC, you have much better work to print than this piffle? I sure hope so.

Leave the tripe to JS - he seems more than willing to put crud to print.

Michelle said "This is the first time in my adult life that I am proud of America" not 1 time but, 2 times. It was not a slip of the tongue - it was planned. These folks can spin it all they want but, millions will still question Michelle and Barack's love for this country. Why are they only now starting to talk about how much they love America? They have been forced to... Plus, the Republicans will expose their relationship to Ayers soon enough - no speech or group of speeches will explain a relationship with an unrepentant terrorist who Bombed the Capital. You can't write this stuff!

The convention is just a show, stupid. Michelle can be portrayed in Angel image she likes. But no one can deny the facts that she and her children go every week to a racist church that hates America. If I don't like a TV channel, I skip it. If I don't like a church, I'd go to another one. The fact that Obama and Michelle stick to that church for 20 years mean that they are comfortable with America-bashing speeches. I think Obama's supporters are so full of hate of Bush that they are blind to all the dangers from this phony couple.

No matter what Michell Obama says now, I still remember her initial hate-filled words and angry face.

I'm listening to my guts on this one. Last night's angelic performance belies Michelle Obama's true inner self.

There are plenty of reasons to NOT vote for Obama, but allegations of hate speech, hate church, and the dog and pony show really are out in the pasture somewhere.

He's a creation of the Chicago political machine. If you buy the dog & ponies, or if you buy the right wing spew, you're operating on the plane of ignorance. Try to step back and look at this from the strategic view of people who are expert at manipulating YOU.

We desperately need to dump the 2 party system. If we did, it would instantly end this crap and put the focus back on the issues. What did you hear about the issues last night? Only that the Obamas are going to fix everything.

Garbage. Don't you believe it, and don't believe John "Kamikaze" McCain, either.

-Wexler

That warm and fuzzy feeling is the Kool-Aid taking effect.

FREE AMERICA

DIRECT DEMOCRACY

Your rhetorical question about Cindy McCain's having to prove her patriotism or not invites an obvious "no". She already had ample coverage of her patriotism with the invitation that Michelle Obama gave her way back when with her "first time[...] proud of" comments. Michelle Obama gave a much less articulate Cindy McCain a HUGE OPENING and Cindy McCain took full advantage of it. It's like the attack on McCain's houses cue-ing the Rezko revival. The Obamas seem to provide so much of the ammunition used against them.

This election starts when the general election period starts, and McCain is limited by his federal funding. No one is paying attention to the election in August, and the conventions are a particular black hole of public attention in an otherwise bereft space-time. The Obama strategy seems to be (ought to be) saturation bombing and the power of the big chip stack. When you can frame your message anywhere and anytime it is needed, and your opponent needs to budget his efforts, you will have little trouble making your point. As a bonus, the Obama camp can beat up on McCain's sources of cash (e.g., big corporations). A particular irony, that.

First you say "Michelle Obama has to define herself" then, when she does, you say where are the attacks on McCain? We have 3 more days for attacks on McCain, so don't jump on Michelle for not doing it in her wonderful "defining" speach.

Your comments sound like "hate speech" to me. The Obama's can go to any church they like: we have freedom of religion in this country, or don't you remember that?

Also, they did leave "that" church.

.....Michelle Obama

A wolf in sheep's clothing

Take care......

You folks really have all missed the boat. Barack and Michelle are a decent, hard-working couple from working-class roots. Republicans despise the working classes in this country - they consider them the "least common denominator." John McCain says he loves America, but he does not love working class America. His voting records make this painfully obvious. People cried last night because they recognized that they could have someone who understands, likes, and appreciates them.

Imagine having someone in the White House who truly represents the majority of the American people and not just the "haves and have mores." The Republicans are once again selling cynicism and fear. I am so tired of the hatemongers that make up the Republican party. I am a 65 year old white woman who was raised to be honest, ethical, and positive. I am smart enough to know that if John McCain is willing to run an unethical and dishonest campaign, then his presidency will also be unethical and dishonest. A leopard does not change its spots.

This all makes me so tired. I'd like to think that attack ads don't work, but we're seeing McCain pulling even in the polls. If Obama has the cash to frame the race how he wants where he wants, he ought to start soon.

Those Texas people are disgusting. Just because you don't support some other (adult) family member doesn't mean you're not generous. Why doesn't Obama release his tax records, challenge McCain to do the same, and then we can all compare their charitable contributions to see that Obama is really the generous one.

hahaha my goodness listen to you folks. You sound like Moonies! Listen to yourselves, really!

Here's a clue: both McCain and Obama are politicians; what are they about? They're about power; if they help the nation along the way, that's great. If not, hey, talk your way out of it. It was someone else's fault.

We can see that McCain has at the very least served his nation, to the nth degree, whether you like him or not. Obama and Michelle, they're very unhappy. Bad nation! Bad nation! Unfair and mean nation! The very nation that made their priviledged lives possible is 'bad' and 'mean'. My goodness, as if they're going to lift everyone up out of their present class and position and level the playing field. WAKE UP, knuckleheads! Nobody can do that, and frankly, it shouldn't be done. There is a reason that many are where they are, and it has everything to do with effort.

The new theme is that Obama and the democrats are too soft on McCain. Mr. Corn belies his bias in arguing the convension should show that McCain would be a "disastrous" choice for America. Only liberals believe that. McCain is well respected and most Americans other than liberals think he would be an okay choice. To try to demonize him will backfire on the democrats.

The Texas ad is very tough on a personal basis, criticizing Obama for not helping his highly impovished brother. In a sense, Obama invited it and the Rezko ad with his over the top attack on McCain's houses.

I found Mr. Corn's take interesting. I did not see anything racial in the ad. Everyone knows Obama is part African and that his extended family is in Africa. But Mr. Corn sees the "implicit message: he's BLACK and his brother is an AFRICAN." I assume Mr. Corn genuinely wants to diminish racial problems in our country, but to find race wherever he can only makes the problem worse. I fear that if Obama loses, the reaction of folks like Mr. Corn blaming it on racial bias will set us back further. The country would have been much better off in terms of race relations if Powell had run for president in 1996.

American in Tokyo:

You may be kidding, but Obama has already released his tax records and it shows he was very stingy with charitable contributions. He made virtually none until he hit it big on his book and then he gave large contributions to the anti-American Reverand Wright.

"The explicit argument of the ad was that Obama says he wants to help American families but does nothing to help his own. The implicit message: he's BLACK and his brother is an AFRICAN. In the weeks ahead, the Obama camp may well face a blitz of negative attacks that could make the Swift Boat assault against John Kerry look like a day at the beach.

Can warm-and-fuzzy beat mean-and-nasty-and-racist?"

This comment makes my head hurt. Does the author really believe that it needs to be implied that BO is mulatto? As if it isn't obvious just by looking? While there are certainly people out there who will not vote for BO because he is dark does MJ REALLY believe there are people like that who are unaware that a mulatto is running for President and need to be told? Does he/she really think McCain's people are going to spend wheelbarrows full of money to tell people what is readily obvious, not a matter of opinion, and they already know? The above comments about racism smack full force of projection, and epitomize the saying "It takes one to know one"

Archie Bunker HATED Hillary until she channeled his bitter resentments and became his "fighter" against all he hates. Then she was instantly his hero. If Obama is too dumb to get the message that the only way to win a critical mass of Reagan Dems is to channel their bitterness by "fighting," then he deserves to lose. But surely he's going to take the gloves off Thursday. If not, he's toast, no question.

It's amazing that every 4 years the democrats try to convince us that they are really Republicans, with real American values.
It's a giant scam that they believe will trick us into voting for them....
bbbwwwwaaaaahhhhh !!!
Ain't gonna happen....

Say what? "Something demeaning?" Apparently, I and millions of others missed what you saw! How could that be?

The ad from Texas republicans is perfectly legitimate. Its asks the question, "how can Obama care so much about your family if he doesn't even care about his own?"

Corn is simply playing the race card (as a typical liberal) when he says this is about obama's brother being African. Do you really think they wouldn't have made the ad if obama was a white democrat with a brother who lived in a one room shack with no indoor plumbing somewhere in kentucky?

Thanks for making my point regarding Republican cynicism, fear, and hatred. I can't imagine what its like to live with such crap inside me 24/7. No wonder our country is such a mess.

Doesn't BillyBob have it right on the Texas ad? The ad may be too personal to be effective politically, but it seems to be within the bounds of fair argument in a political campaign. Obama talks an awful lot about virtue and helping others, but in his own life, he has not helped his brother. Even Mr. Corn got that part of the ad: "The explicit argument of the ad was that Obama says he wants to help American families but does nothing to help his own."

And Americans have been silly enough to believe that Republicans are for the "average guy" and his values, while they have been whoring themselves to lobbyists and corporate interests and "disappearing" the middle class. Why are we suprised by their foul appeals to racism and fear? Real repunblican? Dick Cheney, Tom Delay.

If Obama wanted to unify the Democratic party, he would have chosen Clinton as his VP. Instead, he chose to be petty and divisive. I am no longer a Democrat.

Democrats are godless, gay loving, blame-america-first, whiners who are an affront to heartland values. If you wanna take back the White House, you gotta get serious and give us candidates we can relate to.

ENOUGH with the racist comments! The ad about his brother isn't about racism, it's about the fact that Obama is a fraud who doesn't care about his own family.

Wow, I almost mistook this for an objective piece until I got to this : "The explicit argument of the ad was that Obama says he wants to help American families but does nothing to help his own. The implicit message: he's BLACK and his brother is an AFRICAN."

Are you for real?

Please, Obama is a corrupt machine politician from Chicago. (His sycophantic relationship with the horrifically corrupt Emil Jones should be proof of that.)

Of course he doesn't care about all of those simpering fools who've invested him as the new messiah. Dude doesn't even care about his own family.

"The explicit argument of the ad was that Obama says he wants to help American families but does nothing to help his own. The implicit message: he's BLACK and his brother is an AFRICAN."

What 'implicit message' you idiot?

Looks like "any criticism of Obama = Racism" is becoming the standard defense for the Obama sycophants.

Yeah, they have the legal right to go to any church they want, and people have the legal right to attend Ku Klux Klan meetings. Guess you can't judge peope in the exercise of their rights, dummy!

Why does MotherJones slant its new coverage favorably toward Sen Obama?
Last week, MotherJones wrote that Republican John McCain didn't know how many homes he owns. Well, last night Democrat Barack Obama didn't know what town he was in.. In a live satellite speech last night to the Democratic National Convention in Denver from a home in Kansas City, Obama said: "I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis." This received no attention from MotherJones, the biased network.

Hhahahaa, this is all too funny. Especially Carol Cota's comment complaining about McCain's campaigning, fear mongering, etc. Do you even know how Obama won his first election in 1996? Oh wait, Obama was able to disqualify all four of his opponents on technicalities, even the incumbent. That's how Obama started his career of "change." He made sure to win on technicalities (aka cheating). So what were you saying about how one "willing to run an unethical and dishonest campaign, then his presidency will also be unethical and dishonest. A leopard does not change its spots"? Wow, how the Messiah has fallen. Oh well, he was never much to begin with. By the way Carol, studies have proven conservatives are happier on average than liberals. So much for all that hatred and fear. I believe you project too much. How are you so cynical about other people? Hahaha, too damn funny.

OBAMA PROSTITUTION A NEO-MARXIST DELUSION

Obama’s desperate enemies, the Neo-Con Republicans and Neo-Lib Democrats in positions of power in government, education, industry, teacher and labor unions, and news and entertainment media continuously strive to induce presidents, congressmen, and judges to serve as their political prostitutes. Their Crypto-Neo-Marxist divisive politics and notorious subversive contempt for nationalism, Christian culture, Constitutional Law, Kennedy Liberals and Reagan Conservatives make them an increasingly intolerable threat to the American People fighting in the escalating Cultural War.

Having had their notoriously vicious and crooked candidates, Leiberman Neo-Lib Clinton and Podhoretz Neo-Con McCain defeated; they have stopped their hate-baiting and slandering, and have cunningly started their tactical systematic ingratiation to Obama, with flattery and money.

Shall Obama prostitute himself; or shall Obama prosecute them? Shall he keep counsel with Liberal Kennedy and Conservative Reagan, or shall he keep counsel with Neo-Lib Clinton and Neo-Con Bush? Shall he be their master, like Kennedy and Reagan; or shall he be their n-----, like Clinton and Bush?

No projections at all. I am a 65-year-old white woman who has raised 3 children on her own and led an extremely successful professional and private life. I worked extremely hard and I am very proud of my accomplishments. I am old enough to remember when bigots and racists ran the country and woman were treated like second class citizems. If it weren't for progressive legislation, I am convinced that my life would not have turned out as it did. Like most working class/middle class people, I didn't want a hand out, but a level playing field on which to compete. The study saying that conservatives are happier was written by a conservative as propaganda. You strike me as the type of person who automatically accepts whatever he is told.

Come on, David! I've admired you for years, but I'm surprised that you're acting so impetuously now. Political conventions are for rallying the troops. Attending to the party opposition is, at most, a side issue. There is plenty enough time for that after the conventions, and the Democrats at this convention are showing better than in many past conventions that they are well prepared to hit the road and hit the opposition very factually and very directly after Labor Day.

What about Pelosi's speech and what about Kucinich's barn-burner speech on Tues afternoon. What are they, chopped liver?

Obama and Clinton would make a dream team to beat the Republicans. I'm surprised that the One selected Biden instead. Maybe he's an egomaniac and wants to prove that he can win the election without Clinton (If so, he puts his ego on top of the party's interest). The announcement of the VP pick at 3 am is meant to send this message: he doesn't need Clinton, he has a better guy to answer the phone at 3 am. Isn't this a slap on Clinton's and her supporters' face ?