Focus on the Issues! READ THIS............

[secondwind]

Every second of this campaign not spent talking about the Republican Party's record, and John McCain's role in that record, is a victory for John McCain.

Her critics like to say that Palin hasn't accomplished anything. I disagree: in the space of ten days she's succeeded in distracting the entire country from the horrific Bush record -- and McCain's complicity in it. My friends, that's accomplishment we can believe in.

Just look at the problem John McCain faced. George Bush has a disastrous record, and the country knows it. John McCain -- the current one, not the one who vanished eight years ago -- has no major disagreements with George Bush (and I'm sorry, wanting to fire Donald Rumsfeld a bit sooner doesn't qualify) and wants to continue his incredibly unpopular policies for another four years. The solution? Enter Sarah Palin, a Trojan Moose carrying four more years of disaster.

And the plan has worked beautifully. Just look at what's being discussed just 57 days before the election. Is it the highest unemployment rate in five years? The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? The suicide bombing yesterday in Iraq that killed six people and wounded 54 -- in the same market where last month a bomb killed 28 people and wounded 72? That the political reconciliation that was supposedly the point of "the surge" is nowhere near happening? That Iraq's Shiite government is now rounding up the American-backed Sunni leaders of the Awakening? That the reason 8,000 soldiers may be leaving Iraq soon is so more can be deployed to Afghanistan where the Taliban is steadily retaking the country?

No. We're talking about whether Sarah Palin was or was not a good mayor, whether she was or was not a good mother, whether her skirts are too short and her zingers too sarcastic.

Contrary to what we're hearing 24/7 in the media, the next few weeks are not a test of Sarah Palin. The next few weeks are a test of Barack Obama.

From Huffington Post

[AuntPatsy]

1. She is doing nothing at all, the article is not exactly true..the media and the rove gang are doing

it all, she is nothing without them

[sandnsea]

2. We've got to get back to the economy

and the disastrous record of Bush. Agree completely.

[Sugarcoated]

3. I agree completely

but somehow they have to get Palin's crazy far-right stance on issues to the public, I don't see why they can't do both in one sitting and tie it into a 'more of the same/out of touch' package.

[Sugarcoated]

4. Claire McCaskill just said

when women hear her on the issues they'll be shocked.

It takes a few days or more for realities to catch up to the average person, they don't follow this stuff like we do. I think her favorables will go down when that happens.

[secondwind]

5. and Claire also said that Obama needs money now, he is struggling

[bdamomma]

6. yes, caribou barbie has been a big distraction.

how about the issues, Obama and Biden are the only ones talking about that, let us not forget (which DU'ers won't) what we have been living through the last with 7 1/2 years, 2 illegal invasions, Katrina, foreclosures, the rich getting richer and the middle class getting squeezed and the list goes on.

Remember Cheney is still out there spinning his web around countries and making deals with other dictators to get their prize resource OIL, it is business as usual for them. Let us remember this is our livelihood we are talking about not moose burgers and pretty frames, these people who claim to call us their friends we are not their friends we are just their pawns.

Let's get back to the issues.