My one-week plan for dominating 7 straight news cycles

[scheming daemons]

1. Major endorsement (*cough* Powell *cough*) Saturday. This will squash the Palin interview and be the talk of the Sunday morning shows. The only person big enough to accomplish this is Colin Powell. Love him or hate him, DU.... Independents ADORE him (in poll after poll).

2. Monday morning, the campaign releases a list of questions that Charlie Gibson neglected to ask Sarah Palin. Hold a press conference to read the list aloud to the American people. This should be a surrogate, not Obama. Also on Monday, release the first Keating 5 ad. Show McCain walking in slow motion in black and white out of a courthouse. Point out the billions this cost taxpayers.

3. Tuesday morning, Obama holds a town hall meeting in Alaska, and ANSWERS the questions that Sarah Palin wasn't asked. He takes questions from REAL Alaskans and wins the crowd over. The video of Obama getting a warm reception in Alaska will be run in a loop on all the media for a whole cycle.

4. Wednesday morning, Obama campaign leaks to the media some of their cabinet choices. Among them are a couple Republicans (Chuck Hagel for State Dept, for example). Have some unconventional choices there... Bill Gates for Commerce, Bill Clinton for UN Ambassador, T. Boone Pickens for Energy (ok, just kidding about that one))... This will generate buzz. Doesn't matter if he intends to pick these people in the end... just have these floated out there as "trial balloons". It will dominate the talk shows. It's bold (most pundits will say it is "presumptuous"), but who cares. To the American people it will show CONFIDENCE.

5. Thursday morning, Obama goes on a bus tour in a bus titled "the REAL Straight Talk Express". At each stop, emphasize the "Lie of the Day" from the McCain campaign and give a response that is 100% truthful and cannot be debunked. Even if the response is uncomfortable to Democrats. TELL THE TRUTH in a way that the American people KNOW that there's no spin.

6. Friday... continuation of bus tour. Visit a pig farm in Indiana. Seriously.

7. Joe Biden goes on Saturday Night Live. Have a skit where he's in a restaurant and he can't get service, it's like he's invisible. Self-deprecating humor sells...and it sells big. (Witness the audience response to Obama last night on Letterman when he said, "As someone who USED to be on the cover of Time and Newsweek...."). Then have a mock debate with Tina Fey playing Sarah Palin. Have Biden make several hilarious gaffes and have Fey be "forced" to answer softball questions - some of which should be plays on the softballs that Gibson lobbed. This will preempt any REAL gaffes in the debate and make Sarah Palin look like a caricature to millions of LIVs.

[WI_DEM]

1. I like all of your ideas except leaking cabinet choices.

[Cronus Protagonist]

4. I agree

No cabinet choices, instead he could list all the things that McCain and Bush agree an - read McCain's voting record out loud.

[scheming daemons]

6. You mean the idea, or the names I listed? If its the names, that's not the point...

Pick any names.... names that will make you say "hmmm..."

[State the Obvious]

2. Addition to #4......

Show the clip (I don't remember the source) where McCain says he WOULDN'T rule out having Dick Cheney in HIS cabinet. :puke:

(Other McCain possibilities,,,Rumsfeld, Lieberman, Graham and Thompson....:puke:

[holboz]

7. K&R

I'm aching to end this absurd Palin lovefest off the airwaves...you have some very sound suggestions there!

[MadrasT]

3. You should be on his campaign staff. Seriously.

This is great stuff. K & R.

[scheming daemons]

5. Thank you.... but I'm not waiting for my phone to ring off the hook, LOL.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

8. good stuff, sd