*** Obama on CNN.com ***

[oviedodem]

[Labors of Hercules]

1. LINK???

:eyes:

[jenmito]

5. Here's one:

http://www.cnn.com/live/

[Curtland1015]

2. Thanks for the heads up!

[jenmito]

3. He's on all the cable networks, too! He'll take questions. n/t

[Cha]

4. Thanks, I don't get cnn but

I'm sure we'll be let in on what's happening:)

[gateley]

6. They're streaming it on cnn.com, if you mean you don't get the cable channel. nt

[Cha]

8. I saw most of it! Thanks, gately!

It's like he's the Prez and this is what it will be like..freakin' SURREAL!

[gateley]

9. Eagerly awaiting McCain's press conference with Questions. I'm sure

we won't have to wait long. :eyes:

[backscatter712]

7. Seeing it on MSNBC right now.

Good. He's calling out the Bushies for the problems with the bailout - demanding some accountability.

Any time we publicly call them out helps us - this whole emergency was planned months in advance. I'm convinced this bailout is the October Surprise - on top of being a dictatorial power grab and robbery of the taxpayers through use of the Shock Doctrine, this bailout was designed as a vehicle for a Rovian Bitchslap - just like FISA, or Kyl-Lieberman, or Iraq-War funding bills - Bush beats us over the head repeatedly, forces a choreographed 1...2...3...CAVE!!! from Congress, and leaves the Democratic party utterly humiliated on the eve of the election.

It's designed to change the public perception of the Democratic Party from being the party of Barack Obama to the party of Alan Colmes.

What do we do to fight this? CALL THEM OUT!!! Call Bush's bluff!!! Loudly, frequently, harshly. Pull no punches, spare no expense making attack ads out of this controversy.

If we meekly acquiesce to Bush's and Paulson's demands, I guarantee that Democrats across the board will drop in the polls, maybe by ten points. Nobody likes dealing with a person who won't stand up to a bitchslap - the bitchslap's designed to draw contempt upon its victim.

Josh Marshall said it best:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/209645.php

Stuff like the Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry and McCain's Celeb/P Diddy assault on Obama aren't really about the attacks themselves. In themselves, they're often too cartoonish to be believed in any literal sense. What they're about is smacking the other guy around and making him take it. There's no better way to demonstrate someone's lack of toughness or strength than to attack them and show they are either unwilling or unable to defend themselves -- thus the rough slang I used above. That not only makes the other guy look weak. It also transforms him into an object of contempt, which together are politically fatal. It's this meta-message of weakness that resonates far beyond the literal claims. And it's this that Democrats so often seem to miss -- explaining the factual inaccuracies of the claims, demanding that the attacks stop, all the while reinforcing the intended message of the attacks in the first place.