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Plouffe warns against complacency

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor October 14, 2008 12:46 PM


Barack Obama may have a comfortable lead in the polls.

But his campaign manager told supporters not to get too comfortable. In a video, he warned that Republican John McCain will likely ratchet up attacks.

David Plouffe said that McCain's campaign is "100 percent negative" and reaching "new lows every day." He also showed snippets from several TV ads from outside advocacy groups on guns and abortion.

While Obama is "certainly challenging John McCain's record," he is also offering a positive vision, Plouffe said from Toledo, Ohio, near where Obama is preparing today for Wednesday night's third and final presidential debate.

Plouffe urged supporters to talk to neighbors, send emails, and donate money so the campaign can keep "fighting back with the truth."

"We can't leave any stone unturned," he said.

UPDATE: The McCain campaign responded today by arguing that the criticisms and questions of Obama's relationship with 1970s radical William Ayers are justified.

"The only thing 'beyond the pale' here is the Obama campaign's failure to explain how it is that Barack Obama carried on a decade long friendship with a man who sought to topple the U.S. government through violence," Michael Goldfarb, a McCain spokesman, said in a statement.

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McCain-palin bad for USA

Dear concerned citizens of America and Mass Media of the U.S.A.
As a concerned registered independent voter, forensic psychiatrist, disabled American I made my decision to vote after taking into consideration following joint tickets attributes and characteristics.

1. Has the ticket shown adequate calmness, coolness, and connectedness's under pressure to lead our nation [Presidential Temperament]?
2. Has the ticket shown sustained sound "Judgment and Caliber"?
3. Has the ticket shown adequate understanding of depth and degree to address the crucial challenges in their their purpose, policies, and positions [ Honesty, integrity and sincerity]?
4. Has the ticket sufficient "understanding and knowledge" of inside Washington workings [Experience]"?
5. Has the ticket reservoir resilience, wisdom, and vigor to address the present and future f our beloved "Great-grand Nation"?
6. Has the ticket enough joint foreign policy experience and exposure based on " Values, Virtues, Vastness, and " [American moral soul]"?
7. Has their campaign talk, slogans, ads, plans, and programs based on facts and are they free of fear, fiction, frivolous labels, unfair attacks, negativity, and impulsively? [No "imminent danger to national
security and safety"].
8. Has the ticket genuinely kept on message of country first and politics last and avoided copying [Message change"]?
9.Has the ticket message stayed away from Culture divide and war[ Disaster prevention ]?
10. Has the ticket resisted being surrounded, supported and surrogate's by divisiveness, distortion's, and destructive characters, [ Real patriotism VS shiftiness and shameless parrot-ism]?
11. Has the ticket thoughtful, real non-partisan, & non-impulsive plans to address our current economic crisis or political tactics and temperamental statements.
I have personally and professionally concluded that OBAMA-BIDEN ticket will lift and inspire our greatgrand nation back to its greatness within and restore our global standing with the use of maximum, firm
international diplomacy and minimal force if and when indicated {" Peace thru Strenght "}.
12. The era of responsibility has to replace irresponsibility and unaccountability will change to accountability and transparency. The Wall Street greed will change to Main Street need.
13. Temperamental and Angry McCain is out to play and create a card mistrust and distress around Obama with the Vail of claim that he will bring bipartisanship in Washington DC. He is destroying him claim every by painting Obama naive. It is tragic, sad, and unfortunate that so called Maverick McCain has already generated a disdain and demeaning face off in the debates and bailout suggestion. Obama is real Presidential and he maintained a smile during the debate and while McCain had a constant grin and disdain towards Obama.
Yours sincerely,
COL. A.M.Khajawall [Ret] MD.
Forensic psychiatrist, Disabled American Veteran and Iraq
Freedom team. Grass roots California leader per Senator McCain's
PS: It is sad and unfortunate that Hon, Temperamental and angry Maverick McCain has changed into bitter rather than better man.

Posted by COL. A.M.Khajawall [Ret] October 14, 08 11:04 AM
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I caught the tail end of a news story, last night, detailing Palin's relationship with the contractor's who built the sports complex in Wasilla. Sounds like these contractor's (buddies, as Todd describes them), provided the building materials and labor for the house, and this contractor has some connection to the disgraced Ted Stevens. As I said, I caught the tail end of the story, so was wondering if anyone else had read or heard anything about this. Maybe the Globe could look in to it?

Posted by Sam October 14, 08 11:18 AM
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your brain washed by Obama

Posted by ted October 14, 08 12:07 PM
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Ted, I think the proper sentence would be:

You're brain-washed by Obama.

Your sentence makes it sound like Obama actually took soap and water to my cranium.

Posted by Sam October 14, 08 12:26 PM
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Congratulations to David Plouffe and Axelrod for the best managed campaign in political history. Has there been anything better and more instructive in memory? This is another intelligent moment. For the polls don't choose the president, the voters do, and the wind can always change. Happily, we in Oregon will be receiving our mail in ballots this week and we can soon do our civic duty and then wait and see. There are 20 more days of this and I'm starting to admire the energy and work the campaigns are expending. We need to get through the rest of it and let these people take a rest. At least some of them and the media and the exhausted obserers

Posted by Gaias Child October 15, 08 03:33 AM
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Wasn't McCain the one who was brain-washed for 5 and 1/2 years? Suppose he is a 'sleeper' for the commies who brain-washed him?

Posted by jvii October 15, 08 10:09 AM
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