Fish. Barrel. Boom.

He parked it.

I'm amazed that people still argue Senator Obama won't be able to handle and fight during the general election. He just took over the entire rest of the news cycle, basically declared himself the Democratic nominee by challenging McCain directly to a debate, and if McCain dodges he can spend the next week calling him chickenshit while blasting both he and Bush on the war.

Wham and splatter.

Bush (in his odd mind) probably thought he through a tough one at us but at this point he's just lobbing beach balls up there.

fear mongering crap and have the media run with it and beat the Democrats over the head with it endlessly.

I'm pacing the floor like a fucking caged lion.

This is a fight we need to have and a fight we will win, with this Man leading the charge!

Music to my ears...tears to my eyes.

;)

BOOM !!!! :-)

Here's to the demise of the GOopers as we know them.
:nuke::nuke::nuke:

McCain and the GOP are by no means ready for Obama. He and Axelrod will eat their lunch.

Some of the die-hards around here should realize that there is an ass-kicking on the way, and Obama is going to deliver it.

- as

I used to worry about attacks and missteps on and by Obama; now I can't wait for his kick-ass, take no prisoners, head-on responses. He is awesome in a crisis, manufactured or otherwise.

Against the best political team the Democrats have had in a half-century, if not ever?

It's great to watch it unfolding against the Republicans.

The GOP is dog food.

Definatly time to go up to Camden and catch a game when I get back to DC.

My biggest "fan days" were in the 60s ... Al Kaline, Bill Freehan ... I was a sometimes "bleacher bum" at Briggs Stadium. I loved watching Dick McAuliffe at shortstop. Cal Ripken, however, pretty much perfected the position.

but grew up watching Cal Ripken and Ozzie Smith make playing possibly the hardest position in baseball look like a walk in the park on a warm, sunny day. I envy the fact that you were in the stands during the "golden age" of baseball.

was at Memorial Stadium. Orioles vs. Rangers.

Cal Sr. was manager. Cal was short. Billy was 2nd.

It was an awesome time to be an O's fan.

I miss Cal too.

It dropped about ten feet in front of me just as I was standing up to get a beer (I was so loaded I didn't even know he was at bat).

The ball came in making this evil sizzling noise, and the poor guy who was in position to catch it had his hands too far apart. The ball went right in between them and smashed the poor dude's nose, shooting blood over about a dozen seats (which were closed off as a biohazard). Worse than that, another guy caught the ball on the bounce off the first poor guy's face and ran away with it.

It's nothing about nothing, and it certainly wasn't Cal's fault. I just thought you Cal fans might like to hear the story.

He has had to hold himself and staff back because he couldn't be perceived as mean to Hillary....although some folks around here would have you believe he was mean to her constantly.....

I'll bet when he goes on offense the result will be breathtaking.

"Cry 'Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war....."

:rofl:

From your keyboard to God's screen!

Very impressive.

'Weak candidate,' my ass.

He just keeps getting better and better.

GE? Bring. It. On.

- as

I've supported him from the get-go but even I never expected him to be this good. I am ecstatic!

rather than trying to support Obama's efforts to take the fight to the people who deserve it and who have sent this country into the toilet for 8 years.

Another fringe benefit for Obama taking it to Bush/McCain is that Bill Clinton sounds even more ridiculous for declaring Republicans more 'progressive' than Democrats. Bill needs to stop lying down with the dogs.

Obama will give us the fight we've wanted to see rather than the triangulation that's let the Republicans run roughshod over everything.

Obama's campaign is an absolute thing of beauty. It's such a treat to have a Democratic campaign that just kicks ass.

this candidate and his campaign are a thing of beauty when they work it like this

response to both the dim one and McCain. 'BOOM' indeed!

The guy is more than capable of running a very effective campaign.

I wish I didn't have to see him & his supporters trashed here every single day.

I think McCain is on his way to an ass-kicking that will be Mondalesque in scope. And I'm thinking of twenty more seats in the House and 5-6 more seats in the Senate changing hands this year.

Did anybody hear what Sean Hannity was saying the other day? The Republicans need a new "Contract With America" so people know what the Republican Party stands for. The problem, Sean, is that people know EXACTLY what the Republican Party now stands for and their heading to the exits like it's a Michael Bolton concert.

John McCain is serving up four more years of what 80% of Americans believe is "the wrong track" and the rest of the Party can't decide whether to embrace disaster as a group or go off and find little individual disasters that are just right for them.

It used to be that in a bad year, at least a Republican seat in Mississippi was a sure thing.

...Not any more!

i wonder what happened to the old contract, was there a 'breach of contract'?

if they need a new contract to show what they stand for, does that mean the old one was a lie?

video available?

Hillary is showing class by waiting until the winner is declared.

Obama is being way to presumptive with this move. It is very divisive.

:rofl:

Obama is moving past the primary, as he should.

It's time to take the fight to those he will defeat in November.

- as

bushco. How on earth can you object to that? He's not trying to push Hillary out and he's defending himself from the puke attacks. They know he's the nominee and they're going after him. And you want him to sit back and wait until it's official that he's the nominee? Bad idea.

I don't recall him being called out by name. Seems to me he jumped on
an ignorant statement by Bush and injected himself into the fray prematurely.

Hillary could have done the same and showed some class by leaving it unnamed.

On background, Admin officials stated that it was directed at Obama. Why do you think Biden and Pelose were so angry? Obama was hardly alone in recognizing that it was a hit directed at him. Where have you been?

I'm looking for it but can't find one. Hillary did the right thing and Obama grandstanded.

- that it was intended for Obama. McCain certainly took it that way. You're believing Perino?

Obama repeatedly said "democrats" and "toward me and other democrats".

Hillary lost her moral stand on how presidents should talk about foreign policy with her "obliterate" comment and her Kyl-Lieberman vote.

and luckily, Obama is showing them that their usual tricks aren't going to work.

'some people seem to think...'

:toast: CHEERS TO OBAMA for not letting them get away with the straw man argument and showing them that a swift and effective blow will be coming at them whenever they try this. I for one am very PROUD that OBAMA is coming out swinging.

He is, you know.

Tim Russert called it.

He has nothing more than a bigger paycheck than most of us.

I voted for Hillary, but she has lost.

Time to unite and move on.

Only if you are a supporter of chimpy/McCain...which I'm guessing describes you to a tee...

Divisive as in presuming he is the anointed one to inject himself personally
into something that was not addressed directly at him. Hillary could have done the
same to steal the limelight and did not. She spoke for Democrats and not herself.

Your guess about me is as wrong as your grammar.

Fuck Clinton supporters.

He can't wait three weeks and let Bush/McCain shit all over him.

Hillary defended Democrats unselfishly while Obama took himself to the stage.

with a weeks worth of "posts", you troll badly.

It's obvious as hell the comments were aimed at Obama.
You're picking semantic nits in an effort to disrupt.

Welcome to my ignore list
and please...
go back to FR....

"It would be a wonderful thing if we lived in a world where we don't have enemies. But that's not the world we live in. And until Senator Obama understands that reality, the American people have every reason to doubt whether he has the strength, judgment and determination to keep us safe," McCain said in a speech to the National Rifle Association in Louisville, Ky.

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Thank you Obama! :woohoo:

But I've always thought Obama was up to it. Seeing him speak in person, you know.

huh! That's our Obama

Count on it. :toast:

...bwhahhaaaaaaa!

LOVE it.

He can fight. No doubt. He can WIN. No doubt.

Impressive.

I really like this guy's ability to turn his enemies' guns around and blast 'em with their own ammunition. He's the Captain Marmont of American politics.

It's very different from the way previous candidates have played it. President Clinton was an expert at charting a safe course through utter chaos--sometimes generating a little chaos of his own in order to do it. Reagan just let it all slide off of him by playing his greatest role and pretending to be above the fray. Bush and Nixon resorted to falsehood and misdirection.

Not Obama. He's quickly turning every slur against him into an ABC After School Special on the subject, informing his audience while setting an example of tone and morality. If he keeps it up, he's going to set precedents that no Republican will ever be able to meet.

And that's just the way it ought to be.

that they are on the road to extinction.

They will get the picture in the GE.:D