I really feel sometimes as we are always on the defense and on the reacting side. I think I’m not the only one that notices it and comments on this trait of the Democrat campaign.

I’ve just read a post here saying basically the same thing.

In order to win the election it is crucial to show why McCain is the wrong man for the job. It is not enough to share the vision for a better America as there are many voters that can’t relate to abstract discussions.

I don’t say that we should go to their level in the sort of attacks, I don’t even say that it is important be attack as in being aggressive. What I’m saying that sometimes there is a need for a short brief message to open the way.

A short brief message saying you don’t want another Bush for 4 more years because… Something that every men women and children would be able to understand, accept and relate too.

The whole vision them of the campgain is a good one as it is touching on what we want America to be, but without a clean, clear explanation of why McCain is the wrong man at the wrong time the whole message loses balance.

Some of the unforgettable sentences from her speech can be found at Julia Rosen post just click here

Courtesy of brownpau

Obama didn’t wake me up at 3 am with this text message but he did woke many others.

Seriously 3 am?

Well it is the weekend so I guess it is o.k and I guess it is a good way to notify people before the news can appear all over the news.

Anyway the big deal is the decision and not the text messages at the middle of the night I guest found the time a little amusing.

I think that Biden is a very good choice and that Obama was right to wait before making the decision. As the election gets closer he and his stuff were able to learn about the most critical issues in which Obama needs support in the eyes of the voters.

This issues are foreign policy, experience and middle class white voters. Biden brings balance to all these areas.

If you want to read a good discussion on the rational of the decision you might want to read this post and this one on LiberalOasis. I liked their discussion of the Biden Obama team.

I’ve come to understand that conservatism is a very irrational phenomenon. As I see it there is only sense in conserving something if it is already functioning, successful and balanced. Otherwise what the point in conserving?

Most people are not seeing things as I do, for them conservations is what we do to prevent things from deteriorating.There is always a way to reach some of the people who’s reasons for conservatism is fear and distrust.

Sure as digby said most evangelical audience cheered McCain on every single word and sure that conservatism is a worldview but there is a way to gain the support of many people that define themselves as Conservatives and it through getting their trust.

In order to win Obama needs to have supporters from various social groups so trust that changes can be done and trust that he can do it without collapsing their world but rather improving it can be crucial.

I know it is quite silly and probably took lots of work to create but I find the video really funny so I thought to link to it from here too.

I think we would hear much more of the contributions and donors manipulation for the campaigns of McCain and Crist. From the post on Easter Lemming blog it is clear that there is more to investigate on the whole story of the donations that appears to arrive from persons who never gave them.

This is probably the old trick of covering large sums of donations from a single not so “kosher” donor by dividing it to many small donors that are not raising suspicion.