A Command Perfomance (that is driving McCain a little nuts)

This week has been an infuriating and frustrating experience for every Obama supporter I know. On the one hand is a media sensation machine easily manipulated by juvenile McCain attack ads and mind-numbingly unable to call McCain on his shallow hypocrisy. On the other is an Obama team that either misses glorious opportunities to go on an all out attack on McCain (Phil Gramm anyone?) or somehow too casual in their dismissal of the GOP playbook. Read more

Barak’s Move to the Center Suppresses Fundraising

OH DEAR.

Since securing the title of presumptive nominee on June 3, Barak Obama has made a string of baffling pronouncements that have taken the wind out of the sails of his democratic base.

Could all the assumptions about this fundraising juggernaut prove wrong?

Could the blank slate candidate prove a little more blank than slate?

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The 1984th Amendment

Democrats Angry & Bewildered by Failed Leadership on FISA Bill

Today in the Senate, Democrats are debating the merits of a deeply flawed FISA Amendments Act that should probably have never seen the light of day. Read more

Does Rove Seriously Think Obama is the Country Club Guy?

Karl Rove was impressed with Barack Obama when he first met him. But now he sees him as a “coolly arrogant” elitist. This was Rove’s take on Obama to Republicans at the Capitol Hill Club Monday, according to Christianne Klein of ABC News:

“Even if you never met him, you know this guy. He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”

Actually, that sounds more like W.

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Media Slow to Connect Oil Dots

IN BRIEF: Oil Prices in the United States have gone through the roof in the waning months of the Bush Administration.

• Why? How did we get here from there?

• Who benefits from these high prices?

• What can we practically do about it now? 5 Years? 15 Years?

• What do Senators Obama and McCain plan to do about it and will it help anytime soon?

• What is the “Enron Loophole” and why should we care?

• Isn’t Phil Gramm from the McCain Campaign directly linked to the “Enron Loophole”?

• Is the media doing their job and investigating all of the dots here?

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Lessons from 1984 …

Few years have been as infused with as many seeds of symbolism and consequence as 1984. In the year that the AIDS virus was identified by French immunologist Luc Montagnier and the first Apple Mac went on sale, a gallon of gas cost $1.10 in the US while Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, Michael Jackson and “Do They Know it’s Christmas” put an entertainment band aid on the troubles of the world. But behind the smile of two Olympic Games – LA in summer and Sarajevo in winter – trouble was indeed brewing. Read more