Trouble for Barack

In just one month Obama has gone from being clear favorite to nearly underdog. And why? McCain's campaign and the right-wing lie machine have been working overtime. While Obama has been working hard and taking a weeks vacation, they've labeled him as an elitist, vacationing in Hawaii (where his family live!) and not being around when trouble in the world flares up (i.e. Georgia). Add these issues to Obama's continued reluctance to 'go-negative' countering McCain's negative attacks with negative attacks of his own, Obama and the Dems are teetering on the edge of that slippery slope to losing the election. Again. While McCain's attack adds appear amusing at this stage and light hearted, I can barely imagine what they've got up their sleeve as the race heats up. What I don't understand is how the democrats have not learned from the past. They are proving yet again that they are weak, countering attacks with a poor defense as opposed to better lethal attacks. what easier target could they possibly have other than an aging, aggressive, pandering, lie-ing, panderer to both the right and left, who's own party members can't stand because he is too moderate, who moderates don't trust because he pals with George Bush, a man that destroyed our last known John McCain - McCain the Good - in 2000. Yes, as summer draws to a close and the real race begins I am beginning to feel pangs of anxiety unfortunately. The lies of the right, their deception and hate are taking their toll on Obama. Time will tell, and I have faith in Barrack's advisor's and campaing, certain that they have a counter plan - but the psyche of the American people is a hard nut to crack. A nut the Republicans and righ-wingers have manipulated and lied to with tremendous success over the last couple decades.