Obama needs to dominate some news cycles. Here are my ideas for doing so....

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I wouldn't expect much cooperation from him. I like the rest of your ideas with the exception of No. 1 and No. 5. Too gimmicky.

The only repuke he seems to support is McCain. Even contributed to his senatorial campaign in 04.
He must have some longstanding personal relationship with him.

His two latest contributions to McCain were during the primary. It seems he has not made a contribution toward the general election yet.

http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Lorne_Michaels.php

For all we know, his donations haven't been updated by newsmeat in awhile. He has donated to McCain campaigns 4 different times and to his PAC once.

At any rate, I don't see any donations to Hillary or Obama.

Not sure about how that came to be.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/lighter-side/

Mr. Michaels, the show’s executive producer, contributed $2,300 to Senator John McCain, whose daughter Meghan was an intern on the program, the filings show. Mr. Michaels gave twice as much to Senator Christopher J. Dodd.

...but what's the point of DU if we can't discuss things?

He's already doing some great things this week.... Countdown on Monday, Letterman on Wednesday.


He needs to dominate some news cycles, don't you think?


What do you propose?

nice work :thumbsup:

he will be put upon to come up front and joust in most dear earnest. And a hair's breath worth of hesitation, as I heard recently with an O'Reilly all cocky and laying back into *got'cha* mode, will not be made up any time soon in the middle of a skit on SNL, again, sorry; but it's very very much time to get very very much busier period and that means know your enemy cause they are standing right in front of the lot of us at nearly 50/50...and that's too close for comfort

Haven't we learned that we can't win without controlling the discussion?

are infinitely more interesting and helpful than the latest attack on mothering.

who could actually follow up and get it done...
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I'm hoping that some such people peruse DU GD: P occassionally.

;-)

Maybe I should make this a dailyKOS diary?

and if we see any of these ideas implemented, we will know where they came from...;-)

they pounded him on his FISA vote.

Now who in the world are you? Cause if you aren't getting paid by someone you should be.

I work at a D.O.E. laboratory.



My only tie to "politics" is that my cousin is the County Commissioner here (Washington County, PA).

I have been watching your posts for a while now and IMHO you got natural talent.

You would go far quickly if in fact you aren't there already.

These are excellent ideas! They would win over airtime and votes! All though I don't like the first one because it may come across as "Kerry going duck hunting". But the rest is pure gold. 3 is an absolute must at this point. I like 5 personally, yes ballsy indeed!

Keep it up. :hi:

These are some excellent ideas actually. Hopefully we can get these to someone close enough to the campaign, that it will make it to somebody calling the shots. I think this list is worthy of their consideration at least. I definitely think that we need to own a few news cycles again.

and could definitely go for the rest.

Definitely my favorite of the bunch. Although I could go for just about all of them, honestly.

she gets to answer questions.

The more I think about it, the better this looks to me.

Though I still maintain doing it in Wasilla is too gimicky. Do it in Anchorage or Fairbanks. That would be just right.

But then I'm no expert.

K&R

email the campaign and get in touch with PA's state coordinator to get these ideas out there.

Most of your ideas I like, but there's only a couple I question.

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You should try hard to somehow get someone on the Obama campaign to notice them...i notice if u send the standard email on their site they may not notice it since they gets thousands of emails so i have no clue :shrug:

I do hesitate with your Hanity idea since Hanity would intentionally cut Obama off all the time and put words in his mouth and such...it would show balls to go on his show but...hmm....As for the other ideas i am 100% on board, including the SNL with Joe Biden (very clever idea)

...#4, #5, and #8.


#3 is BRILLIANT though, he's got to do this.... :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Great post! K&R

This is all EXCELLENT!

Takes the offensive, goes on active rather than passive mode, makes him look like a fighter, and intrudes on her space.

This is exactly the kind of shit I want to see from the Obama campaign. Town halls and ignoring Palin are not going to do it this time.

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I think Obama needs to run some negative TV ads that contain some so-called "controversial" accusations: something the media will want to talk about. The ads should tag McCain as being the "McJobs" candidate or another "Greed Over People" candidate or possibly the "Golden Parachute Flyboy". These tags will stick because they are all essentially republican truisms. Everybody knows republicans favor the corporate CEOs over the little guy worker who just had his good paying job outsourced overseas. Everybody knows republicans favor taxing rich corporations and wealthy people at a lower rate than people who work for a living. Everybody knows republicans support corporate welfare and the deregulation-corruption-bailout cycle; where corporate CEOs make out like bandits while the taxpayers are stuck with the bill.

I think McCain will have a hard time countering these arguments and even if he has something to counter them, he will be off his own message for a while. I have a feeling the media would love to hear Obama himself use the term "McJobs-McCain" to describe McCain.

Thanks,
Matt

McCain Economic Plan: After your good job is shipped overseas, go get a McJob!

we definitely need to send a group letter stating questions WE THE PEOPLE want asked by him!

I like the idea of Obama talking to Wasillians, even though they may be hostile. It would show he is open and willing to taking questions from anyone....unlike there hometown girl.

How about sending Bill up there? Don't know if it's available, but I'd like to see the '92 and '96 results from that county.

But, please, no, don't go on Hannity. Not than I don't think Obama can't handle it, but because I think Hannity is completely devoid of any ethical standards, as opposed to O'Reilly, who I think becasue he still wants to think of himself as reasonable, is only 99% devoid.

it's like you're a political genius, but without the "evil".