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Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own , but may be of interest to political observers:

* Barack Obama struck a fairly aggressive tone towards John McCain at an event in Reno, Nevada, yesterday: “[A]fter praising the Arizona senator as a ‘genuine American patriot,’ the Democratic presidential hopeful got back to business — methodically tearing into McCain’s health care, tax and energy policies and criticizing his advisers.”

* Obama sat down briefly with David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network on Saturday night, after the event at Saddleback. Brody brought up charges from a right-wing pro-life group, and Obama was visibly frustrated: “I hate to say that people are lying, but here’s a situation where folks are lying.”

* Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge (R) said yesterday that he thinks the party would accept a pro-choice running-mate for McCain. “At the end of the day, I think the Republican Party will be comfortable with whatever choice John makes,” Ridge said. We’ll see.

* Obama held a series of fundraisers in San Francisco yesterday

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, collecting money for both his campaign and the joint effort between Obama and the DNC. “John McCain, all he wants to do is talk about me,” Obama told supporters. “They know they can’t win on the issues. So what they’ll do is they’ll try to scare people: ‘He’s risky. He’s risky. We’re not sure.'” In all, Obama raised a combined total of $7.8 million between the various events.

* Last week, Joe Lieberman suggested Obama has not always put the country first. Yesterday, Dick Lugar, a conservative Republican from Indiana, rejected Lieberman’s remarks on CNN: “I think that was clearly a partisan statement at a rally. I respect everybody [has] their opinions in a political campaign

, but that’s all that was.”

* Obama chatted with T. Boone Pickens to chat about alternative energy. Pickens’ support for the Swiftboat liars apparently didn’t come up. “Everybody knows that if we keep on going on the same track that we’re going

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, that we are giving our wealth away, we’re funding both sides in the war on terror. We’re going to be — over the long term — putting enormous pressure on ordinary families…. That’s what we’re going to be talking about,” Obama said before the meeting.

* Obama isn’t writing off any states, but his campaign has apparently decided to practically ignore Arkansas.

* Public Policy Polling (D) shows Obama and McCain tied in Ohio at 45% each.

* A poll from the Rocky Mountain News shows McCain leading Obama in Colorado by three, 44% to 41%.

* Rasmussen shows McCain leading Obama in North Carolina by four, 46% to 42%.

* Rasmussen shows Obama leading McCain in Maine by 13, 49% to 36%.

Comments

  • Steve

    says:

    “At the end of the day, I think the Republican Party will be comfortable with whatever choice John makes.”

    Dick Cheney … Mitt Romney … Satan … darn it all; so much redundancy, so little time ….

  • TomB

    says:

    I was glad to read that Obama was being more aggressive. I would like to see him sound progressive/populist in his messages. It seems he’s spent a good deal of time moving toward the “center” when he should be moving the center toward him.

    In several elections that I can remember since 1968 (Humphrey, Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry) the Democratic candidate has squandered a summer lead then ran an energetic working class campiagn in the last weeks of October to close the gap but fall short. Hillary Clinton ran a campaign appelaing to the working class and nearly won. I’ve always wondered, why wait?

  • taritac

    says:

    McCain talks about his POW experiences that he doesn’t need Obama to do so. Obama needs to stop calling McCain a great American patriot.

    That is all.

  • Donna

    says:

    I agree with Lieberman that there was an instance where Obama definitely did not put country first. It was that time when Obama went out and campaigned for Lieberman to beat Lamont.

  • Scott F

    says:

    Agree with Taritac – Obama needs to stop that nonsense. If Obama is worried that he’s be seen as an angry black man if he fights back, then bring back the 527s, bring in the surrogates to do it for him. The time to fight is now, and there has been so much time wasted.

  • RepublicanPointOfView

    says:

    We will never be comfortable with John McCain as the nominee. We will never be comfortable with a Pro-Choice veep selection by McCain.

    However, as Obama is the AntiChrist, we will wholeheartedly support McCain as the Christian candidate. We have confidence that McCain can be controlled and made to do the Right thing. We have confidence that we can get McCain to appoint Clarence Thomas clones to the supreme court. The only thing better than that would be to get rid of 8 of the supremes and let Scalia be the supreme court by himself.

    Whether comfortable or not with McCain and his veep, we will support the American candidate over the African Muslim candidate.

  • angry young man

    says:

    That lead in Colorado is going to evaporate once McCain’s desire to take away the state’s water gets more play. Great diary at DKos about it.

  • joey

    says:

    Christ was a liberal..to be anti-Christ is to be anti- Liberal therefore Obama, a liberal. cannot be the anti-liberal too. Conservatives are anti- liberal…hmmm

  • Final Notice

    says:

    @8 Republican Pointed Head;

    Why do you and your ilk keep finding people to call the Anti-Christ? Is it because YOU are the Anti-Christ, and you are hoping to throw people off your trail by pointing at others? Isn’t that just like you, Mr. Anti-Christ. Don’t you have some poor, crippled veteran that you can put into a roach and rat infested, mold-covered hospital room, or a naive, 19 year-old kid that you can send to a fabricated war based on lies to have his legs blown off while your stock in Haliburton, Blackwater, and ExxonMobile climb off the charts. You pig.

  • zeitgeist

    says:

    “I hate to say that people are lying,

    Get over it or lose the election. People are lying. Idiot Americans are believing.
    Call it out or get beat.

  • zeitgeist

    says:

    (um, Final Notice, I’m pretty sure that RepublicanPointofView is a satire of what he or she perceives as the Republican Point of View. Think “Insane Fake Professor.”)

  • Matt in Eugene

    says:

    Maybe Obama was also frustrated because of this question by Brody:

    “Let me ask you a little about some of these ads that John McCain has been running not just on television, but on the web. Let’s face it, let’s call a spade a spade, there has been some Messianic references, there’s been some antichrist stuff going on, the celebrity, they’re trying to pigeonhole you a certain way. Do you believe this is being done on purpose?”

    Yes, Mr. Brody, let’s “call a spade a spade.” What a racist dipshit.

  • RepublicanPointOfView

    says:

    Satire? Who would have guessed?

    To quote my favorite tv preachers “Wealth and power are signs of the approval of God!”

    Or, as Joel Osteen would paraphrase Jesus “it is easier for a camel to fit thru the eye of a needle than for a poor man to go to heaven”

  • Always hopeful

    says:

    LOL, Zeitgeist, a good one…

    Matt in Eugene, I thought the same thing when Brody prefaced his question with “let’s call a spade a spade”. How could he possibly say such a thing to a black man?

  • Hannah

    says:

    “Dick Lugar, a conservative Republican from Indiana, rejected Lieberman’s remarks on CNN: “I think that was clearly a partisan statement at a rally. I respect everybody [has] their opinions in a political campaign, but that’s all that was.””

    It’s too bad Lugar apparently didn’t mention the bill he and Obama co-sponsored, that was signed into law by bush, as proof that LIEberman was lying. (stopping nuclear proliferation) I’m sure Lugar is darned proud of that legislation.

  • Final Notice

    says:

    Zeitgeist,
    You mean I wasted that rage on a satirist!!? Bummer. (Got to stop merely scanning the comments). However, you true Republi-drones and trolls out there (and you know who you are), take heed.

  • zeitgeist

    says:

    20. On August 18th, 2008 at 2:29 pm, Final Notice said:
    No offense RPOV, my apologies.

    21. On August 18th, 2008 at 2:31 pm, RepublicanPointOfView said:
    Wasn’t offended…

    And that is the slip that proves RPOV is not a true Republican: no Republican would ever miss an opportunity to claim offense at what progressives say in an effort to score political points – especially what progressives say on blogs! 🙂

  • orange is not the answer

    says:

    Obama isn’t writing off any states, but his campaign has apparently decided to practically ignore Arkansas.

    I’m not surprised – since I moved here 3 months ago, I’ve made a dozen calls & emails, trying to join the Democratic party, and all I’ve had so far is form letters & deferrals.

    Of course, that was before I discovered they shoot Democrats here :/

  • toowearyforoutrage

    says:

    “Dick Lugar, a conservative Republican from Indiana, rejected Lieberman’s remarks on CNN: “I think that was clearly a partisan statement at a rally. I respect everybody [has] their opinions in a political campaign, but that’s all that was.””

    A Republican defends a Democrat from the partisan attack of another Democrat.

    Just LOOK at the mess Bush made of my country!

    Dogs and cats! Living together!
    Mass hysteria!

  • Union brother

    says:

    I find it amazing that union members were the ones running into twin towers on 9/11, Firemen/women, City and state workers. To save people yet they lost thier lives.

    Yet when asked about personal freedoms and national sequrity question, Sen. McCain violently attacks union members around the country with his illinformed, corperate sponsored answer on Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) and apparently WALMART wrote and paid for that answer. Union organizing votes would be more free if left up to progam EFCA would put in place. But Mccain wants to give power to corporate america and keep sucking money from them.

  • Nanuq

    says:

    Dick Lugar, a conservative Republican from Indiana, rejected Lieberman’s remarks on CNN: “I think that was clearly a partisan statement at a rally. I respect everybody [has] their opinions in a political campaign, but that’s all that was.”

    Sorry CB, but that wasn’t a rejection — that was cover, downplaying the importance so Lieberman wouldn’t be tarred and feathered for once again attacking his party’s presumptive nominee. That was along the lines of, “Now, now, let’s don’t be hasty, let’s don’t get all riled up — he just said that in the heat of the political moment, it don’t mean nothin.” (I know he’s from Indiana, but I hear him in Texan.)