I hadn't read this prior to my previous post, but this AP story on the Obama camp's response to Palin's speech is spot on dead solid perfect:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_obama

Offensive-defensive. As an old yeller-dog Dem, I gotta love these guys. They get it!

OK. We are eight weeks away from the election. If Obama and Biden and thier surrogates don’t start pushing back hard and pushing back now we are going to be crying into our cereal after election day.

Sites like this are fine for us and they help, but unless the candidates and the talking heads start making the Republicans’ ears bleed, we are going to lose again!

What is most disappointing is that with all the terrific liberal blogs and the Daily Show and Colbert teeing this stuff up, why do the Democratic “strategists” constantly on TV all seem so clueless?

Do they not check in on Kos, CrooksandLiars, here, Huffington, TPM etc before they go on air? Or do they just check Drudge?

Aaaaaaarrrrrrgh!

[For the Pythoners]

Cheers,

why do the Democratic “strategists” constantly on TV all seem so clueless?

Do they not check in on Kos, CrooksandLiars, here, Huffington, TPM etc before they go on air?

Because they're not insane. Should they start citing the stuff found there, they'd be laughed out of the room -- or sent to the loony bin.

Salon.com really should label such tall tales for what they are--tall tales and absurdities.

Greenwald and most of his Salon ilk truly must think the American people are dolts if they believe that headline and article has any basis in fact.

Having been a Dem and a lib before I realized that that the Democratic Party revels and thrives on dirt, innuendo, and outright lies, I think to suggest Republicans are being vicious goes beyond the absurd!

Witness the castigation of poor Bristol Palin, her mother and her family in the last few days.

Have Salon and the leftist establishment no shame? (That's a rhetorical question.)

...that both sides don't do this? *Really*? So that McCain Housegate flap never happened? Schmuck.

Yes, adnoto, I see where you are going.

On one level, I think we could all do with a little education about the "fly-over" parts of the country. For one, thing, we could look out the window and see the strip-mining, and also those curious circles of green in the west, which are from the pivot irrigation ranchers use. We could connect our development with the illegal immigration - not only do we invite skilled farmers in from Mexico (because this is what they are -- you just try a little stoop labor and find out), but we also may be depriving their own less efficient ranches of needed water (a possibility). Oh my, what a can of worms!

Therefore, Dems are as complicit as Republicans in sentimentalizing the small town and those hapless boys being picked off in Iraq every day only to return home to a big parade (one of the few occasions for public celebration - hero worship).

Biden is as big a sentimentalist as they come.

But will it be better for the rest of us if the Dems win? And if so, how is it to be done? How is incumbency to be put down like the mad dog it is, while it fawns at our feet like Ole Yeller?

Have the Dems made their case that McCain IS incumbency (the voting 90% with GWB is a start)? And if so, how do you deal with the hopeless masochism that wants things to stay the same? Because a lot of people are going to vote white over black just because they have no imagination and no interest in life. And because some of them are mean.

Palin: Democrats spreading misinformation and lies (see sig)

By SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writer 20 minutes ago

MINNEAPOLIS - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Thursday blamed supporters of the Democratic presidential ticket for spreading "misinformation and flat-out lies" about her and her family.

But her spokeswoman said Obama's campaign was not responsible, even though a Palin fundraising letter named the Democratic ticket with the words: "the Obama-Biden Democrats have been vicious in their attacks directed toward me, my family and John McCain."

The Obama campaign has raised questions about Palin's qualifications based on her six years as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, and less than two years as governor, but Obama himself has said her family should be off-limits. He also said he would fire any staffer who talks about it.

Palin spokeswoman Maria Comella said: "We appreciate the fact that he came out and condemned this kind of personal attack." Asked whether Palin thought Obama or his running mate, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, were personally responsible for the attacks mentioned in the letter, Comella said, "No."

Asked who was to blame, the spokeswoman said, "You want me to tick through all the stuff that's been ticking through all the blogs the past few days? What about the stuff that was on Daily Kos, that rumor that was spread?"

Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said "the only 'flat-out lie' is this ridiculous claim, and it proves that John McCain has wasted no time in teaching Sarah Palin the ways of the Washington he's inhabited for the last 26 years." (that is not a wimp response)

The vice presidential candidate met with the governors on the morning after her speech to the Republican National Convention. In the days since her selection as John McCain's running mate was announced, questions have been raised about the 44-year-old governor's qualifications and experience, and it was revealed that her unmarried, 17-year-old daughter is five months pregnant.

In the fundraising letter issued Thursday, she cited "the Obama-Biden Democrats" and said the "misinformation and flat-out lies must be corrected."

Palin said Thursday that she has "a big job cut out in front of me running for vice president."

She did not take questions from reporters.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_palin_92