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Preparations before Barack Obama's nomination acceptance speech at Invesco Field in Denver, Colo. (source: CQPolitics.com via Flickr.com) Talk about PTSD. The psychological sting still felt and the lesson seared into the modern “convention”-al wisdom of the Democrats even four years after the Swift

Late at night is not a good time to watch the News, to watch the rehash of the latest Convention going ons, from Denver. Specially when you have a smug arrogant fool like Wolf Blitzer hosting the damn thing. I mean, the ‘greatest political team‘ is stretching it.

The venue for tonight's historic speech may be a mistake, reinforcing Barack Obama's image as a rock star at a time when he has to make a reassuringly intimate connection with voters who will be bombarded by Republican attacks on him as too exotic to trust.

Gets huge boost from blogosphere and negative attack ads, cutting into Obama’s lead August 27, 2008 (Computerworld) While much of the Web has focused this week on Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has quietly boosted his online audience to close in on the lead long held by his rival.

It looks like ‘freedom of speech’ is not on Mr. Obama’s platform this year since he’s trying to imprison people for exercising it. Obama’s target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama’s ties to unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers.

As the rhetoric ramps up and the invective intensifies, a clearer picture of the overall attack strategies utilized by the two presidential campaigns emerges. In the case of the McCain campaign, a particularly ingenious (or insidious, depending on your perspective) tactic has become commonplace; the magic of turning strengths into weaknesses.

First of all, let me apologize to everyone out there who has been relying exclusively on the Editors’ Blog for up-to-the minute news and incisive commentary on the presidential election. Sorry. I know I have a good excuse for not writing more often: flopping down on the couch after a long day of pretending to work.

What happened to Barack “I’m a new sort of politician” Obama? This is the guy who endeared himself to many, many people (even me) when he proclaimed that he would run a new, higher-brow campaign that eschewed attack ads and favored productive dialogue over the traditional mudslinging tactics.

The alert went out earlier this week that the Obama attack ads were on the way to Michigan, well, they’re here, and they’re ugly. Yesterday, a different right-wing smear group than the one mentioned in the link above, one called The American Issues Project (but one that also features persons behind

Saturday, August 23, 2008 Is Pro-McCain TV Ad Illegal? I received an email from the “Obama Action Wire” (part of the Obama presidential campaign support) that stated the following: “Yesterday, a right-wing smear group launched a full-fledge attack against Barack, pulling in every baseless lie and re-hashed false assertion in their playbook.