Okay, trying to be fair, but this just seems so patently over-the-top, and sure to be used against them...

Reuters reports that Barack Obama will deliver his Thursday night acceptance speech before an "elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple"

Conservatives are mocking the stage as a "temple of Obama." Ed Morrissey writes, "That this scales heights of presumptuousness can hardly be refuted." One anonymous McCain adviser quipped, "Is this from the Onion?" No, but it may be inspired by the stage at the 2008 Virginia Republican Convention.

Victor Davis Hanson chimes in with his criticism, calling the Greek columns "blind hubris."

Look at Bob Casey as one illustrative example:  Dems said "We need a Dem Congress, women, forget that he's anti-choice, focus on the BIG PICTURE!!"  Obama's courting of evangelicals is the exact same thing and requires the exact same thing from us:  forget about choice "for now".

Well, now the Dems are hoist on their own petard.  PUMAs, McCain Democrats, those who can't vote for Obama, those who won't blindly follow Hillary, are doing exactly what the Dems have required of us for years.  We are putting aside our short-term goals (e.g., Dem President) in favor of looking at the BIG PICTURE (e.g., hunker down for 4 years of McCain and get Hillary in 2012).

We might be wrong about the big picture, true. And certainly the Dems "big picture" differs significantly from mine. But nobody can complain about the process:  we're doing what the Dems have required us to do for decades, we're engaging in Jr. Political Punditry before we cast our votes.  

Hillary explained vividly what it means to be a Dem. However, that's not what the Obama campaign is going for...not when they put two life-long Republicans on stage for speeches.

It may be what you want. It may be what I want. But I don't think that's what the campaign's interested in.

And while her speech may fire up the base...it's the candidate's substance and actions that keeps that fire going...

Were she the candidate, I have no doubt that the base would stay burning. But I'm not sure that it'll be the same with Obama.

Pick a moment, go off the teleprompter, and speak from the heart in simple language about why he's running and what he's going to do.

It could be very powerful and surprising, and it would counter the effective attacks from McCain.

Oh, I got it.  They're amateurishly attempting to bash us over the heads with the imagery of him being Inaugurated in January.

"Clinton didn't seem angry or betrayed or entitled or any of the things that critics have attributed to her--she seemed merely unenthused, and so did the audience."

When Mr. Obama decided in June to bypass the $84 million in public financing for the general election, campaign officials calculated that to make it worth the additional time he would need to devote off the campaign trail to fund-raising, they needed to raise two to three times the $84 million.

They set out a goal of raising $300 million for the campaign and $180 million for the Democratic Party, several fund-raisers said, or about $100 million a month.

The targets hewed closely with what Obama advisers also cited in interviews as their anticipated budget for the general election, but a spokesman for the campaign insisted on Tuesday that its fund-raising was on target and denied that $100 million a month was ever a real goal, or that the campaign was having problems recruiting Clinton donors.

In July, Mr. Obama and the Democratic National Committee took in about $77 million. That swamped the $53 million Mr. McCain and the Republican National Committee collected. But it was for a second straight month significantly off the pace Obama officials had set.

In June, when Mrs. Clinton suspended her campaign, Clinton and Obama officials estimated they might be able to collect $50 million to $75 million or more from Clinton donors. They appear to be nowhere near that.

I have to admit though, if I had to be anywhere near Maddow, I'd act the same! All that crap she spewed last night about WHAT HILLARY HAS TO DO.
That Maddow woman makes my stomach turn.

Either way, it's horrible how disgusting MSNBC has become. Wowzers, what will they do if Obama loses? Will they simply go back to bashing Hillary in preparation for 2012?