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To: gamesmistress who wrote (264629)	9/1/2008 12:04:12 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 793563

<he didn't attend an elite college,> spoken like a true elitist.......lol

To: gamesmistress who wrote (264629)	9/1/2008 12:10:08 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793563

Good review of the last week for each campaign. Don't forget that the same sources who are currently telling us that Palin is a mistake told us that Obama's European trip was a triumph. Thursday v. Friday: Set Piece Battle v. War of Maneuver By Clark S. Judge Last week the nation witnessed two top-of-their-game presidential campaigns at work, campaigns as stunningly different as they were impressive -- different in ways that told a great deal about each candidate. On Thursday night the Obama campaign mounted show unlike any ever seen in a presidential election: a massive stadium filled to the top rows, a stage inside the stadium shooting off fireworks reminiscent of those as Beijing’s Olympic Bird’s Nest, rock star entertainment, and at the climax, an elegantly delivered acceptance speech marking a moment of true historic importance. The extravaganza was entirely emblematic of the Obama campaign: painstakingly planned, flawless executed. If, other than metaphorically, politics were war, the Obama operation would be a worthy successor to the tank battalions in which the candidate’s grandfather served during the Second World War. It is a master of set-piece battles. Over the past two years it has constructed the most productive fundraising machine in the history of American politics, assembled what is reputed to be an equally unparalleled ground organization and stage uncountable numbers of flawless events at which the candidate always delivers an inspirational speech. It has rolled relentlessly across the fields of political engagement, sweeping even to formidable Clinton operation before it. It may not show or need much imagination, but it has proven amazingly effective. Friday was McCain’s day and a totally different story. The McCain campaign is anything but a juggernaut. Its strength is in maneuver. Again and again over recent months it has shown the capacity to surprise, redefining the election in small ways and large, not once, but many times. From the celebrity spot to the challenge for weekly debates to the vice presidential pick announced on Friday, it has repeatedly stunned the pundits and the opposition. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was a brilliant choice for VP on multiple levels. Yes, she has energized the base. One conservative blogger reports stunning enthusiasm in emails to him from conservatives who had been sitting on their hands. At the same time she appears to be appealing to independents, particularly to suburban women. Selecting Palin may prove a key move for capturing Colorado, Nevada and even, some have suggested, Pennsylvania. But as GOP leaders have been telling every cable news show that would listen, she also helps McCain refurbish his standing as a maverick reformer. On the state level she has been everything John McCain has been on the federal level and then some – opposing sweetheart deal spending, showing no tolerance for corruption of any kind. Putting McCain and Palin together promises to deliver not so much a GOP as an SOB ticket – tough, gruff and spoiling to take on both sides of the aisle. And it must be said, by every appearance, the driver behind all these clever moves and innovative strategies appears to have been McCain himself. Twice now he has shaken up his campaign team, removing or reassigning aides, looking for talent to fit the tasks of the moment – and each time he appears to have got the results he wanted. In contrast, Obama’s campaign staff has been stable, even during rough patches -- so stable as to raise a question: did Obama create it, or did it, in some way we haven’t yet grasped, create Obama. In other words, is it the candidate’s political machine or someone else’s, with the candidate serving as its face and voice? By Sunday night, one poll (CNN’s) was showing the race all but tied again, as it had been at the start of the Democratic convention. With the near cancellation of the start of the GOP proceedings, McCain has produced another surprise. But will it be enough to overcome the enormous advantage of resources on the Democratic side, in a year that the public mood is universally thought to favor the out party? If McCain is to beat Obama, he’ll have to produce many more surprises. But with his VP choice and changing his convention, he produced two in three days. Hold on. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Clark S. Judge is managing director of the White House Writers Group, Inc. hughhewitt.townhall.com

To: gamesmistress who wrote (264629)	9/1/2008 12:20:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793563

I am being to feel the kind of visceral reaction I used to feel when I would read the Boston Globe's "coverage" of NH issues back when I lived there (NH is my native state and I moved to go to grad school at 31). There is only only major daily paper in NH, the Union Leader, and William Loeb was the publisher for many years. Now true, he was a piece of work, often obnoxious and nasty towards candidates he opposed, and a battle raged between him and the Globe. But it was the Globe's attitude towards NH citizens that stuck in my craw, that we were a bunch of idiots whom you had to throw on their backs to get their shoes on them. While you were living in NH, I was living in Boston. I know exactly what you are talking about. I think the media has the same attitude towards Palin and her suppporters and I think it will provoke an unprecedented backlash. Yes, I think the heartland does not desire to be told what to think on the subject of Sarah Palin. They feel quite capable of making up their own minds on that score.