Dear Chuck,

You can manage any democratic campaign you ever want in any district as far as I am concerned. Should you ever retire you could make Rove, Carville, and yes, David Axelrod look foolish by comparison.

P.S. Please take over and start managing some of our long shot US House races, we'd really appreciate it!

Cordially yours,

Democratic Voter

Now, those sound like great lines for Bill Clinton in his convention speech!!

or somebody who knows how to play it tough.

I disagree....not with letting charges go unanswered, but with getting into a mudfight over who has nicer clothes or a nicer house. Obama's whole brand is getting away from politics like this, and while I appreciate Schumer's "hit 'em back harder" approach I don't think this is the road that Obama's campaign should go down. Most importantly, the more time Obama spends fending off the "elitist" attacks the less time he is discussing the issues, which is exactly what the Republicans are trying to lure the Obama campaign into.

we need Al as a Senator, imagine intentional comedy on the Hill!

Kerry didn't respond to a direct assult on his military record (or at least fast enough). He was branded as an elitist as well, but Obama has been saying that his policies will help 95% of Americans while McCain is looking to keep tax breaks for millionaires (latest TV ad Obama is running).

If Obama would have repeated what Schumer called McCain, they would have called Obama the angry black man.  There's a double standard at play.

McCain's attacks have generally have been wildly clumsy shotgun blasts into the fog but the media courtiers do have fun with them.

The production quality is odd and stilted too like something from a late nite UHF channel infomercial on robotic kitty litter pans.

There has been much hew and cry for fighting back in the barroom brawl metaphors so beloved in America but I sense that there is a supple subtlety to the Obama ripostes that almost resemble John Stewart or Steven Colbert toned down a few notches.

Obama does a great Bugs Bunny to the Elmer Fuddness of McCain and it is more like something from The Art Of War by Sun Tzu or the theories of Sir Basil Liddell Hart.

It is not the cavalry charge that shapes our idea of hitting back hard.

I suspect the many comparisons with Kerry and other failed candidacies are unhelpful. Kerry acted like a jacklit dear after the fusillade of smears and Gore fought with a hand tied over distance from Clinton.

This is a very different battlefield, more like Patton's overrun after Falaise than the mess at Fredericksberg.

Obama is generally moving faster and more deftly than stumbling John and his flabby crew of Rove retreads.

Hit back hard like Chuck hit back after the US Attorney scandal made him look like the world's most impotent wimp? Hit back hard like single handedly ramrodding through Michael Mukasey, the most disgusting traitor since Benedict Arnold?

Take your advice and shove it, Schumer - resign your seat and let Paterson appoint a real democrat. You make me sick.

In McCain's defense, it's not six houses, it's nine.

And they're not his houses, they're his wife's houses.

Schumer has a peculiar idea of 'powerful'.

McCain's ill fated Celebrity backfire is sucking the oxygen out of his smear extravaganza. Hilton's counter thrust has become the talk of the networks and is going viral passing 4 million hits and media saturation. She is, after all, fairly appealing.

And if that isn't bad enough, the McCain bumbling is becoming amazing material for a host of other spoofs practically making a McCain spoofing cottage industry. Below find an example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd0Kb2SnD _Q&eurl=http://www.gigwise.com/news/ 45148/britney-spears-kisses-john-mccain- in-unofficial-election-campaign-video

Chuckie, its only the beginning of August and we have a long way to go.  The majority of the public is not paying attention to all this hoopla.

Wait till after the convention before we pull out
all our secrets, I am glad Obama didn't fall for it.

I can't wait for the Rev. Wright shit to come up, that is when the Keating Five and leaving his crippled wife will come to blow up on McCain's face.