Of course it is important to detail what lies are in the the latest attack from lying slime, BUT

IF the attack is NOT successfully shot down and shot full of holes and decapitated, then the attack might work.

Sadly, detailing the lies isn't usually enough to shoot down & shoot full of holes & decapitate the attack gaining ground ---

for that we need message.

Hello DC Doormat Dems!

Hundreds of Congresscritters!

Thousands of Staffers!

Tens of Millions in Salaries!

Think any of you, this summer, can break away from whining about how mean and ornery the lying slime are AND instead come up with some great coutner message to the attacks?

I'd love to, but

I got a job, and IF I don't do my job,

I'll be living under the bridge in cardboard box

(I'm one of those tens of millions of people without a trust fund ! without affluent relatives !! Maybe you read about them in college? )

so how about you'll FIGHTING for us peeeee-ons instead of whining how a bunch of lying slime are liars!

On NPR this morning it was suggested that Obama's change was the result of advice by John Brennan, and that Obama's seeking to bolster his credentials with the intelligence community.

I always thought HRC's position was better, and I don't think anybody gets us out of Iraq in 16 months or 16 years.  So I never believed Obama when he said out in 16 months.  

So, at this point I don't necessarily care what Obama's "plan to end the war" actually is, or how it's been "refined" in the past 6 months, because I don't think it can be delivered upon in the ways he's represented.

And it hit me: if my buddy, who's practically a walking Democratic Party demographic, can't be sure who Obama is, how can anyone else?

That's why the Obama FF Strategy is truly bizarro. You don't need to scurry off to the right when you've got a disaster of a sitting Republican president with a 30 % approval rating, and when you've gained the large part of your support by marketing yourself as THE NEW ALTERNATIVE.

Faith base initiatives
Abortion stand (mental stress)
Iraq

While Obama's recent statements have exposed him to the "flip flop" attack and have dismayed many Democrats, they have largely followed elite Serious Person opinion and given him some protection from being attacked in the corporate Media as a "liberal". Recalling the infamous Gibson-Stephanopoulos debate, I predict he'll start waffling on tax policy as well.

I still think the most important primary that Obama won was the National Media Primary, having first become the anointed Media anti-Clinton candidate, and then becoming the presumptive Media nominee long before the primaries were over. I persist in thinking that Obama's rightward moves have not been made because they are vote-winning strategies per se, but rather because they are aimed at neutralizing McCain's advantage in the Media General Election. In particular, the Media will find it much easier to report that Obama is maintaining his lead in the polls because of his "moderation" rather than reporting that he is leading in the polls because the voters are angry and want to throw out the bums in Washington who have led the country to disaster. The Media are far too invested in those self-same disastrous policies, and Obama's "accommodation" of those policies makes him Responsible if not downright Serious and thus at least a worthy adversary to War Hero Fighter Jock Maverick John McCain.

Lots of Democrats run to the center in the general election.  But I cannot remember a candidate who has embarked on such a hasty, clumsy shift on so many issues almost immediately after securing the nomination.  It's way too obvious.  When you move to the center, you're hoping to present yourself as authentic, not looking to hang out a neon sign that says "HEY, I AM MOVING TO THE CENTER HERE."

This could have been to hype his wknd appearance as scenery that chews itself on Law & Order: Criminally Over-Acted. (Sen was speechifying).

More likely the photo-op was a predictable scrap of Dem theater to deflect the ire of the rabble-ATMs during the Dems holiday cookouts done old-fashioned Dem-style -- off @sses fully ablaze from their pants on fire -- before returning rested and refreshed for yet another mass cave.

(I'm discounting the possibility that Sen Schumer appeared in a rare moment of strong, unwavering principled leadership from the Jellycrats because I'm too unfamiliar to ascribe that one occurrence and certainly not a whole category.)

In any case, now that we have Obama, the Best Speechmaker Evah, in the Senate and running for Prez, he should be leading the charge to stamp out this bill. He should be leading the charge to shut down this disgrace.

Obama-the-Product, now king of the internets and master of online marketing, wants/ needs to be in more homes than Kleenex or Bounty or TV Guide or Land O'Lakes butter, so he's selling himself to whomever he can, however he can - even if that means that he's reversing course or side-stepping a position or abandoning one altogether.  

He would not say he is flip-flopping - he would probably say that he is delving into the needs of all the people, finding what resonates with them and identifying elements of his platform that can appeal to them.  He's a product, one that a lot of people are wary of being able to perform as advertised.

A flip-flop is when one compeletley switches sides of an issue, as John McCain has done repeatedly.

For example - Obama is still strongly supports pro-choice, but added that he does not believe "mental distress" should be a reason for terminating a late stage pregnancy.  If he had announced that he has decided to abandon pro-choice in favor of anti-abortion, that would be a flip-flop.