C'mon guys, I'm trying to take the fight to our actual enemy. The Hillary-Obama fight has continued to sap our party of necessary resource, it's not good the the Party and it's not good for the general election. Let's start uniting against the opposition. Recommendations would be most appreciated.

"It is that fundamental belief: I am my brother’s keeper. I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family."

This fascinates me - and does every time I hear him say it. The first time I heard him do so in this election (at his Wisconsin victory rally) I was instantly depressed - and emailed an American friend `That's it. He's gone. He's history.`
He, (no, not a Republican, but something of a Democratic wit) shot back `LOL!... in America "I'm trying to get ahead of my brother!"
This is the thing about Obama that has the Republicans & Fox so galvanized against him now.
He'd fit in beautifully in the other western democracies: win everywhere in landslides. In countries such as the European democracies and here in Australia, we tend to be sceptical, even tend to disapprove of, the rich because we instantly assume they've ripped off some poor bugger in order to get where they are. Whereas I understand Americans generally have no resentment of the rich - because basically they still dream that they too can do it if they'll just work hard enough and maybe have a little bit of luck on their side: thus they knee-jerk approve of a system that rewards with great wealth and redistributes as little of that wealth as possible via the dreaded `big government`.
Overseas, people are so excited about Obama’s candidacy. They love it.
I heard a German man interviewed in the street the other day – he was elated and to my great delight said, `I believe dere is a change of vind in da American people…’
Gosh what a vind that would be if it meant that at last the majority of Americans really did believe they were truly their brother and sister’s keeper and that it is that form of social democracy that would make their country work rather than ad hoc charity & John McCain’s rugged individualism or Hillary Clinton’s triangulation.
I for one don’t believe any politician in America will achieve this without restructuring the debate. I don’t even believe Obama will – he was staggeringly disappointing on The View when that blonde Republican twit asked him about increasing her taxes. His response? To downplay it: say he didn’t like paying tax either; he was only going to tax the rich and that lower income people would get a rebate.
To be his brothers’ and his sisters’ keeper this man is going to have to transform the basis of the debate. Republicans are forever hysterical about the level of taxation and emoting to Americans about keeping it down. Obama needs to change the way people emote about this. He’s going to have to say `Stop listening to privileged self-interested politicians whose only care is to get taxes down. Instead start telling your politicians what you believe we need government to do in this country. Are they really prepared to live with the Corridor of Shame? Do they agree that we need to bring all our schools up to par - and that everyone should be able to afford a college education? Are they not ashamed of presiding over a system that sanctions living in the wealthiest country in the world with the worst health care provision in the advanced economies - where 10 million people don’t have guaranteed health care, and a million people die each year because they didn’t have it? This is the United States of America, not Calcutta! Are they going to keep countenancing an America where bridges fall down? Or are they going to invest in infrastructure and new green technology jobs to lift the country out of recession and get it on an internationally competitive footing?
What level of taxation will be required to fund these things and whatever that is, that’s what we want to pay.’

He’s got to get them taking for granted that there are many things so crucial to the general wellbeing that only government can do; and the key question is how much taxation is needed to achieve them, not how little tax they can get away with paying so that the devil takes the hindmost and a once so proud nation ends up resembling a bloody banana republic.

I would love it if they keep playing up McCain as the Great War Hero.

It'll hurt even more when they talk about how he's a shovanistic pig who hung out with strippers and hookers, cheated all the time on his disabled wife and then left her for a younger bimbo named Cindy who overdoses on drugs.

Whatever you may think about the Obama, Cindy McCain is no Laura Bush. Even if you don't like Obama's church, I think the eventual post-mortem of this election is: Values voters would rather vote for a black guy with a nutty preacher than a man who cheats and goes the young bimbo route. Somehow the black guy ends up seeming more presidential. Even more so when they show up together on TV and everyone realizes that McCain looks like a midget with hilariously short arms(I know, it's evil, but it's true!). Call me prejudiced, but there is no way in hell this country will elect a midget with short arms. Last president like that was McKinley.