Grass Roots for Barack   [Byron York]

Hey! Guess what? I just got my email from Barack!

But it wasn't about that. Instead, the Obama campaign wants to remind me that -- guess what -- John McCain doesn't know how many houses he owns. From campaign manager David Plouffe:

    If somebody asked you, you probably wouldn't have to think about it.

    But when a reporter asked John McCain how many houses he owns, he stumbled and said, "I think -- I'll have my staff get to you."

    If you're like the millions of people who are struggling to keep up with their mortgage, you might have a different perspective.

    Not only does John McCain have trouble keeping track of all his houses, he looks at record gas prices and a crippling foreclosure crisis and thinks the economy is fundamentally "strong." And last weekend he said anyone making less than $5 million a year isn't rich.

    This is the side of John McCain his campaign wants to hide.

    So yesterday, we launched a TV ad to show everyone how out-of-touch John McCain is with the economic realities of regular Americans.

    But if we're going to get the truth out, it's going to take all of us working together to make it happen.

    Watch the ad and write a letter to your local newspaper exposing the real John McCain:

But what if I'm no good at writing letters to my local newspaper? Well, just click here:

    Our online tool will help you reach out to your local community and share your views with your friends and neighbors. To begin, just enter your zip code in the box above -- then click Participate. We'll provide you with talking points on how out-of-touch McCain is to help you write your letter and guide you through the process.

And guess what? They're really helpful. Just look at these talking points:

    John McCain defines rich as making $5 million or more. By McCain's logic, you're middle class if you're making $3 million per year. Do you think that's middle class?

    John McCain thinks "the fundamentals of our economy are strong." For who? With the mortgage crisis taking people's houses and gas prices rising, just who is McCain talking about?

If you cannot draw the line on the candidate or the party, you're just giving permission for a succession of mediocre candidates to follow these two, and for the party to continue to disrespect and ignore you.

It goes hand-in-hand with what we have seen from our elected representatives.  With each more egregious action by this administration, we've expected that "this will be the time" when a line is drawn and consequences ensue.  And then nothing happens.  And each time it's ignored, it means the next thing is worse.  And here we are.

I'm unhappy with Obama's choices during the campaign, but he's just a candidate. It's his job to leverage every opportunity his conscience can live with to win the nomination. But my grinding problem is with Dean, Pelosi, Brazile, Kennedy, Kerry, et al. Normally I'd vote for an arugula salad if it had a D after its name, but we cannot have the refs blatantly and unashamedly ignoring the voters and throwing the game to one side.

It can't be much of a negative, since Bayh can't recall it, can it? And it wouldn't reflect at all on Obama's foreign policy thinking, of course.

Why do you thing Biden had to drop out of the primary so soon?

Hillary is the complete package, ready to go on day one.

Obama needs her.  If he's too stupid or egotistical to see it, oh well, he loses.

Obama's not even yet in the White House, but he's already misled the media, much to their chagrin, several times.

One significant time was when the traveling media pool was flown out of Washington as Obama was secretly shuttled out before the plane took off to meet with Hillary at Diane Feinstein's home.

We don't know if he is legally Barack Obama or Barry Soetoro.

We don't know if he has an American or Indonesian passport.

We don't know if he has dual citizenship, American and Indonesian.

We don't know if he is eligible or not to be president.

We haven't seen any college records.

We haven't seen any state senate records (all destroyed?)

He seldom votes on anything, just present.

We don't know his stance on many issues, it keeps changing.  I think it's called flip-flopping.

We haven't heard anymore about the 2000+ complaints concerning his caucus fraud and delegate theft.  However, there is a website addressing only that issue.  

The FEC hasn't determined yet if he committed election fraud, money laundering through ACORN.