It is Now Time for Obama to Move Ahead

John McCain and his campaign have dipped their pen into the inkwell one too many times. That bottle ran dry about a week ago. This Maureen Dowd article from The New York Times today really hits a homerun http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/opinion/06dowd.html?ex=1218686400&en=4457fd3be4d20cfc&ei=5070&emc=eta1.

I will not waste another word on McCain. Anyone who actually takes McCain's juvenile tirades and frivolous criticisms of Barack Obama seriously at this point has completely drunk the Republican talking point Kool-aid.

The silver lining is that the teflon coating that I've spoken of before is finally beginning to be get scraped off of McCain. He has at this point turned his political future over to the Rovian hit squad that has brought us the Bush/McCain comedy show, and their best days are happily behind them. What used to score major points in the naive days when the mainstream media had chosen to partner up with the government has now given way to some networks and alternative sites that offer other points of view, and our numbers are growing exponentially now on a daily basis.

Even though Barack must continue to choose his words carefully, he is finally strongly and proudly asserting himself and his campaign and correctly and forcefully defining John McCain as completely out of touch. Although McCain is kind of making it look a little too easy, there is still a lot of road that must be marched down. Every Republican from McCain to Gingrich to Rove and anyone with a microphone in their face will not take the threat of an Obama presidency leading this country to peace and prosperity and in turn reducing their power and ability to control every aspect of this country lying down. They will pull out all the stops.

But staying on this course will more than counteract the Republlican attack machine. The more the McCain camp and cronies continue down this path of making Obama their main focus of baseless ridicule, unfair innuendo and childish pranks, the more this country will come to the accurate conclusion that McCain has no reasonable platform that will carry this country forward and heal even part of the significant damage this his buddy Bush has done to this country.

I will predict right now that if Obama continues to define McCain to be the uninformed political prankster that has no actual record that he can run on while continuing to forge ahead with identifying himself as the best hope to change America and define a new direction that people can be comfortable with, he will finally eclipse that magical 50% threshold that he has been striving to achieve in the polls.