TPM: "Pretty damn urgent"

[nsd]

Top Democrats Privately Urging Major Donors To Fund Outside Groups To Attack McCain
By Greg Sargent - September 15, 2008, 6:42PM

In a sign of just how nervous senior Democrats are about Barack Obama's situation, top Democratic Party operatives are privately urging the party's major donors to get serious about putting big money into outside groups looking to attack John McCain in key battleground states.

Several senior Democratic strategists unaffiliated with Obama's campaign convened a private conference call late last week with at least four dozen of the party's most prolific donors to progressive causes and outside groups -- a call designed to instill a sense among donors that things are "pretty damn urgent" right now, one of the organizers of the call tells me.

The call is yet another sign that donors and outside operatives -- who had earlier gotten the message from Obama that he doesn't want such activity -- now recognize that Team Obama is privately hoping for such efforts to gear up in earnest.

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[FrenchieCat]

1. Boy! Nervous, hey?

Sounds just like more bullshit to me.

Why would anyone on "our side" even want to use that adjective, unless they wanted us to fret?

[Kdillard]

2. Yep just like Obama was running out of money.

[progressivebydesign]

3. Oh! The sky is falling!! The Sky is falling!!! "nervous"

I so tire of this same bullshit every election. Democrats are "worried" "nervous" "struggling" "broke" "fretting" "infighting" "disorganized" "in disarray"

Such a tiresome and lazy thing to write.. but these guys do it every election or primary. Maybe, just maybe, the Sr. Dems just want to counter the swiftboating assholes with our own ammunition.