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By the way, I don't think anyone mentioned this part of the convention last night yet.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 10:08 AM) This means more of Brian Anderson- this guy has shown to hit the ball this year and his defense is still stellar, if anything our defense will be there the rest of the way. No, it doesn't. If anything it probably means more of Jerry Owens.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 09:07 AM) The AP under Ron Fornier Worth noting his tag line wasn't on either of those articles...but yeah, a guy who almost went to work for the McCain campaign happens to be their head guy in Washington right now...and conveniently, that's how the AP responded to each speech.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 08:53 AM) actually, I just will not let McCain do a speech from here on out. Ok, here's our plan. Senator McCain only does town hall formats and press appearances. Governor Palin gives all the written speeches.

A week ago, the AP ran this article within 26 minutes of the end of Senator Obama's speech. Last night's AP article on McCain's speech was this one: (Came out a little over 1 hour after his speech) It seemed to be not until this mornign that the AP put out a negative sounding article on McCain's speech, and they left that to the "AP television writer" to do it. The AP is sort of the standard wire service for so many newspapers...basically, the earlier they put stuff out the more papers pick it up. So probably hundreds of newspapers carried each of those first articles, one bashing Obama's speech and one praising McCain's speech.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 08:16 AM) Pretty much, and they know it. They are not going to attack that stuff, at least the ones with any sense. I say that generally, McCain will win on the issues, if he can force RSO to defend his plans on things. I don't think they think they can win with that either. Their own campaign manager said a day or two ago (I can't remember exactly when because ST was on the Fritz yesterday and so I didn't have to cite it) that they didn't think this was going to be a contest of issues. If it's a contest of issues, BO is going to win. He knows his stuff better than McCain, he actually seems to care when talking about detailed issues unlike the elder Senator, he's released significantly more policy details than McCain on dozens of issues, and the issues McCain wants to focus on (Drill here Drill now!) are pretty silly and minor things that won't actually accomplish much. Oh, and considering McCain is basically running on Bush's issues platform, with the militarism multiplied by a factor of 2 or 3, that would just leave him in trouble. I don't think that they can win by dragging up attacks from Feb that everyone is already annoyed with, I don't think they're going to win a fight on issues. But they might have a shot if they can go after him personally. With the celebrity crap again. Mocking his work as a community organizer. All the stuff we've heard for the last month; that's their best shot.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 08:14 AM) Go west young man. Go West. Obviously he needs to pay close attention to Ohio and VA, but CO, NM, and NV are a really nice "back up". Based on my projections in the other thread, if Obama looses OH and VA, he can still win if he can get NV, CO, and NM. Just win Ohio.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 09:06 AM) I'm talkin Resko, Wright, and Ayres attacks coming directly from the RNC and McCain. Please, let then go with that junk. It'll work just as well as the 2004 stuff about whether or not Bush completed his military service in the 60's.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 08:15 AM) As Obama's campaign manager: where do you put your resources? In to raising more resources.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 09:04 AM) As Athomeboy stated elsewhere, the Obama campaign has the resources to force McCain to spend money there and focus less on other swing states. They bled Hillary's campaign in a similar fashion. It's also worth noting that in the public financing system, there are limits to how much money you can spend in each state.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 07:34 AM) That list almost writes itself according to electoral magnitude. Ohio first (historically its an absolute must have for the GOP, and I think he will get it). Then the southern states listed, with an obvious emphasis on FL. I think IN is pretty safe, I would skip that in favor of CO and NV. Poll yesterday had Indiana at 45-43 McCain. That's exactly the kind of mistake that could cost you. Deciding that a state that the data tells you is close is actually safe for historic reasons, and then having the guy from the state next door eek out a win.

About 68 beats per minute.

I couldn't sleep last night without my fix...

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 08:32 PM) Yeah that was a pretty cliche response. He mailed that one in. I think the people on these message boards pay more attention to it than anyone else.

Don't know if anyone has noted this yet, but supposedly the RNC had a Palin introduction video that wound up getting cut because 9/11 ran a little too long.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 06:01 PM) The Sopranos finale actually took over that song for me. You are so banned....

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 03:27 PM) They are lucky Harden stayed healthy this long. I'm more surprised when Harden is healthy than when he is hurt. Which is 100% why Billy Beane traded him for the package he got him for...for everyone who bashed that package. He got a couple months out of Harden and moved him immediately.

Senator Obama will make an appearance on the O'Reilly Factor tomorrow night, opposite Senator McCain's speech.

So, I'm trying to understand something...if it's not a big deal that Governor Palin has a pregnant 17 year old daughter, and the media isn't supposed to talk about it, why is the McCain campaign making a big enough deal of it to not only bring the kid to the convention but to have Senator McCain personally doing a greeting/photo op with them at the airport? If this is something that's supposed to be a private matter then why exactly aren't they keeping it private?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 02:01 PM) That is complete BS. I agree it's wrong, but I'm not going to go to the complete B.S. level...give you one major issue with Cabrera that backs his point up...in 2007, Juan Uribe had an OPS of .678. Cabrera is at .687 this year. Cabrera in terms of run production hasn't been dramatically far ahead of where Uribe was last year although he fits better in our order. So his defense ought to be better than what Uribe has put up.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 01:22 PM) Yea, it's called the Limbaugh Letter. And the Washington Times

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 12:48 PM) Not only that but it was one of the reasons. Which is interesting because you tried to twist it into he was comparing the size of the threat completely and it had nothing to do with the actual size of the country, I guess you can spell hypocrisy. Here's the original quote:

QUOTE (WCSox @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 12:40 PM) I'd still play that card if I were McCain. If Obama tries to use Pail as an example of poor judgement, he'll get hit with a barrage of Ayers and Wright ads. You say that like it's a threat that would work. They've already fired out those ads. It's been done.

QUOTE (CQMVP @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 01:43 PM) The only way OC brings us two draft picks, is if the White Sox offer him 8+mil next year... if I'm not mistaken. You guys really think that's going to happen? I don't. They would be absolutely out of their minds to not offer Cabrera Arbitration. He'll pull in probably $10 million a year or more from someone next offseason over a couple years.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 12:31 PM) I'd much rather have him than a team full of PK's and JD's who sit on the bench and read books in between innings. Was I the only one who saw JD being the lead cheerleader the last time he had a game off, Sunday IIRC?