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• Tuesday, August 26, 2008 04:05 AM

  Great article, great speech ... the Obama fall campaign begins

  The article summed up the speech very well.

  Folks, we Democrats have been wringing our hands about the Obama campaign for the last month or two. I'm as guilty as anyone. But somehow I've been hopeful that the Obama team has a plan for the fall campaign that will kick McCain butt.

  Two things. First, consider Obama's primary campaign. When he started the odds against him were tremendous. Money, name recognition, personal connections in the Democratic machinery, endorsements -- Hillary had all of these in spades. Obama's team, through a combination of near-perfect strategy and tactics and incredible organization skills pulled off a near miracle. An Obama campaign is not ad hoc or shoot-from-the-hip. There is a focus on the long-range goal and a plan to get there.

  Second, consider Barak Obama himself, and how he's reacted to the crises he's faced. When the Rev Wright scandal came out he took a few days off them gave the speech of his life. This is a guy who comes through in the clutch.

  I have to think the Obama team knows exactly what they are up against in the election. They have to have a very clear reading on the voter mood, and why there are so many undecideds. They are fully prepared for what the McCain campaign. They've been using the months of June-August to set a foundation for their fall campaign, which begins now. The international trip, the economic summit, the father's day speech ... all these events provide a foundation that Obama can and will draw on in the fall campaign. Meanwhile, McCain is throwing every bit of slime at Obama and in the process eroding McCain's formerly positive image as a centrist who "reaches across the aisle".

  This should be a fun fall.

  —anonny Read anonny's other letters
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