This needs to be hammered in ads and on the stump and, yes, by McCain in the last debate.

In his own words, Obama says in his book “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully.”

Really, friends like Ayers. Mayor Daley says Ayers and Obama are “friends” and Axelrod has as well.

Obama has friends like Wright and Pfleger and Rezko as well! In Obama’s own words he chooses his friends carefully. And the context in the book shows that Obama specifically sought out radicals as his friends. These friends of Obama are no mistake or coincidence.

If you are buying what Obama is selling now, you have been, as Obama is fond of saying: hoodwinked, bamboozled, etc.

Obama, Biden, and their cheerleaders on CNN are ridiculing McCain’s suggestion that a 911-type commission is needed to study changes to regulation of Wall Street, banks, etc. The answer ought to be said loud and clear:

BY McCAIN: Senator Obama, I hear you have been ridiculing my suggestion of a 911 commission to study changes we need to make to put Wall Street right and get us out of the serious issues it is creating for our economy today. The reason a commission is needed is because of people like you and Joe Biden.

Two of your top advisors made millions for themselves while running Fannie Mae into the ground. You and Joe Biden took hundreds of thousands of dollars to do their bidding in the Senate. Joe Biden, your running mate, is known as “the Senator from MBNA”.

Your advisors kept their millions. You and Biden kept Fannie Mae’s contributions to your campaigns. And the taxpayers are left holding the bag.

Senator Obama, because of people like you and Joe Biden, we need a commission to get these issues out of the hands of politicians beholden to their benefactors so we can get regulation that protects average Americans instead of the serving the interests of your contributors.

By TheDude

The McCain-Palin campaign has made tremendous strides since the convention. However, there are a few themes that are getting little to no attention as of yet that really should be emphasized to bring the ticket to victory in November. Of course, though probably not via the McCain campaign, we are likely to see and hear much more about Ayers, Wright, Acorn, etc., courtesy of various 527 groups. Here are a few suggestions for arguments that should come straight from the McCain campaign.

First, the McCain camp does of course say that they are the ones that will bring real change to Washington. Perhaps the best way to emphasize this point is to cast it in terms of “doers” versus “talkers”. That tact has been touched upon but not empasized nearly enough.

Second, sometimes Obama doesn’t even bother to talk about change. For all his time in Chicago there is not a single example of Obama calling out and going up against the most corrupt political machine in the U.S. Instead, he has been a cog in the machine. Examples need to be given, e.g., a rogues gallery of corrupt machine officials who Obama endorsed.

Third, there is a widely perceived panic in Obama and his campaign as a consequence of Palin and the subsequent McCain climb in the polls. McCain’s surrogates ought to be calling additional attention to this and questioning how Obama could possibly handle the presidency when he can’t handle the pressure of the campaign. Perhaps having his opponents run out of his previous races by hook or by crook wasn’t the best preparation for a national campaign. Even the primary he only won because Florida and Michigan were counted out (there were no divorce file to get unsealed).

Finally, Obama is in a very vulnerable position with respect to the mortgage/credit crisis. He and Biden took loads of money from Freddie and Fannie — unlike McCain. Obama has/had as close advisers men who profited greatly from Freddie while running it (and much of the industry) into the ground. The press, of course, will never point this out. McCain needs to.

Obama is incredibly vulnerable, but still dangerous with money, the press, and w’s unpopularity on his side. With the help of the foregoing, McCain ought to be able to eek out the win.