Obama: Do not let McCain (or DU) throw you off your game.

[Hamlette]

The one thing I know for sure is none of us know what is going to win this thing. NONE of us. Obama is NOT John Kerry and he is NOT Al Gore and this is NOT 2000 or 2004.

My greatest fear is that Obama will take the advice of some here on DU and start kicking ass, fighting dirty like they are. I fear it because IT WILL BACKFIRE! McCain, the darling of the media (until the last month or so, but he could be again) and the pretty "gal" from Alaska will shreek about how mean he is.

I think it would be an error to "get mean". He has answered their charges. Have you noticed how wimpy the GOP pundits are right now? It is really the most astonishing thing I've witnessed in this whole campaign story. They can hardly bring themselves to defend McCain. They are not screaming through the whole show like they usually do. If Obama gives them the opening, we are back to ground one. Then we will be defending Obama. Right now, they are defending McCain and in a pretty weak way. THAT IS HOW IT SHOULD BE.

Many people support Obama because he wants to change politics. Some on DU want him to keep it the same.

This piece hit it out of the park for me today:


You're Sane, Barack. They're Desperate

Just a word about the usual excrescence from Karl Rove this morning. Obama knows this lipstick thing is a cynical, knowingly dishonest attempt to push the news cycle one more day into triviality before Palin has to actually face real scrutiny, and we have our first chance to see whether she is who she says she is. It's a desperate tactic to run out the clock or to find a way to navigate the now-tsunami of evidence that Sarah Palin is unfit for the vice-presidency on account of her total lack of knowledge or expertise in foreign affairs, the thinnness and extremism and recklessness of her public record as mayor and governor, and the obvious and most important fact that she clearly cannot be trusted to tell the truth.

Obama mustn't let these schoolyard tactics unbalance him. He hasn't in the slightest, so far, mind you, a feat of astonishing mental and psychological calm. My advice for what it's worth: Hang in. The facts are on your side and the issues are overwhelmingly in your favor. They're trying to force you to blink. Don't. Hysteria will end at some point.

Patience and steel.

Patience and steel.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/youre-sane-bara.html

[groovedaddy]

1. I trust Barack Obama to make his own sound decisions about how to respond

The guy is smart and he knows what he's doing.

[Alter Ego]

2. I think Obama meditates.

How could someone have that much inner calm in the fact of this much crap is beyond me.

[sasha031]

3. listening to the right wing with their smear tactics

I have wanted Obama to start swing, it appears others know better then I.

Remember when he made a joke about Hillary trying to behave like Annie Oakly when she was appeasing the gun crowd? That was funny and effective.

How can he take on the right, without offending others, Not talking over people intellectual capacity, keep a smile on his face and make people laugh.

our comedians do it all the time.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

4. I did not know Obama came to DU for his expert campaign advice.

I will now rest easier. :*

[tired_old_fireman]

5. Don't worry. I seriously doubt Obama reads DU.