How do we win CA, OH, and PA ?

Obama mostly needs to show up and ask for their votes.
It would help if the Clintons made the trip too.
This should be a team effort, especially in those states Clinton won.

Other purple states might be won with the same technique:
polite, but firm statements about morality, adherence to Law and
a RETURN to normalcy and the better path for America –
the path all Americans know we should be on.

We don’t need the black & white of extremism.

In short (if you consider it as a visual), we need more Reagan and Kennedy
and less Goldwater and Dubya.

Play it big with lots of red, white & blue and a lot of the more rural and patriotic independents and moderate Republicans will feel it’s worth taking a chance on Obama-Biden.

The crowd in front of MSNBC has been raucus and lots of fun. People with very different perspectives (within the Democratic party) Remember Will Rogers quote “I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”

Keith Olberman did mix it up a bit more last night looking down from the second tier of the broadcasting change just to let people have a glance (sorry but there is something very arrogant about this guy).

Rachel had a huge (I believe well deserved following) in the crowd. Many folks yelling “Rachel Rachel” until the point where Rachel turned around and shared that this is just “a bit uncomfortable and embarrassing for her”. Intellect, honesty and grace just pour out of Rachel. She is so real so accessible even when she sits on the stage.

Ran into Chris Matthews on Wynkopp street between the Alliance center and the Tattered Cover bookstore. he was standing next to a black Sedan and was completely mixing it up with the crowd again. Answering questions, taking challenges with interest and continuing to be accessible to the peasants. I asked him again to bring Flynt Leverett, Juan Cole and Scott Ritter on his program.( I had been shouting out these names and more as suggesstions for his show during breaks of the live broadcast). He asked me “who are these guys” (this of course worried me). I mentioned that Flynt Leverett had quit the Bush administration due to his disagreements on the invasion of Iraq and was what I call “the man on Iran”. Matthews handed this peasant his card with his direct cell phone on it (now how accessible is that to the peasants). I plan to call his direct number and leave suggesstions for his show (any suggesstions you want to throw in?) Still think Chris ask the most challenging questions about the Bush dynasty and the crimes committed by Cheney, Bush, Addington and why the Democrats are not making far more efforts to hold these criminals accountable

Former V.P. Al Gore rocked the stadium, with his words of inspiration about the direction of our country. When Gore was speaking not only did he get repeated thunderous applause, people were stomping on the floor of the stadium and it felt like thunder under your feet. Al Gore along with Howard Dean were the only ones who spoke honestly about what has taken place in Iraq. (I am going to read Gore’s words again). Gore ripped into the Bush/Cheney regime as mush as Chris Matthews has consistently been doing this week over at the live broadcast of MSNBC. (sorry folks far more than Maddow and Olberman put together). I was kind of surprised that the Generals and Admirals did not get more of a thunderous applause, and that General Wesley Clark did not speak. He would have ripped it up.

My favorite line of the evening was when the former Republican Barney Smith (a very unassuming guy) ended his speech by saying that “Bush should have cared more for the well being of Barney Smith instead of Smith-Barney.” What a zinger the crowd went crazy wild.

Watching the sun go down over Invesco Field (mile high stadium) and the 84,ooo people waving flags most of them more than willing to go out and work for change certainly had tears welling up in my eyes.

Kept wondering if anyone a couple of hundred years from now will be walking through the ruins of that stadium (coliseum) and ask themselves about what kind of games took place there? Wonder if they will be able to imagine the thunderous crowd in that stadium last night who were there because they desperately want to witness change in this nation?

It’s Palin! Because They Couldn’t Get Geraldine Ferraro…

Schweitzer’s speech is here. The prepared text is here. You definitely need to follow along to see how closely he stuck to the script (not).

He followed with, “I trust the Hillary voter and soccer/hockey moms out there are smart enough to get this and realize they are not ’slamming women’ by seeing McC’s motive.”

It will be a challenge to address women’s issues without appearing offensive. I do not think it will be impossible. The Dems just need to focus the voting records for women’s issues and not criticize McC’s choice.

Only two senators were in the room when Karen Hughes testified at her confirmation hearings. When it came time for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to vote on her nomination yesterday, she was easily approved. And thus with no discussion and no debate, Hughes takes over the least noticed, least respected and possibly most important job in the State Department. Her formal title is undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. In plain English, her job is to fight anti-Americanism, promote American culture and above all to do intellectual battle with the ideology of radical Islam, a set of beliefs so powerful that they can persuade middle-class, second-generation British Muslims to blow themselves up on buses and trains.

Presumably, President Bush selected Hughes for this task because she was very good at running his election campaigns.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01551.html