Does anyone have access to Obama campaign conference calls?  Do they actually DO anything?

Because I noticed this at during the primary too - I had intimate details of every "oh he did not say that!" Clinton campaign conference call and it seemed like the Obama camp was totally silent.  It's sort of their job to push this stuff - I mean taking it as a given that the media won't.

Apparently A-ROD and his cheating ass is the subject dominating the airwaves; its effing disgraceful that  some baseball player's dirty laundry is getting aired all over the place while McCain gets a free pass, again.

[maybe if I keep repeating it over and over again: Im a maverick, Im a maverick; I will get a free pass at insane shit like cussing out authority figures or something. .........im a maverick....im a maverick.....]

How does this fit into Obama's narrative that the place we are today is a direct consequence of George W. Bush's policies, McCain = Bush III, and I am that agent of change?

This isn't going away. It's a stunning, inexplicable statement.

They are criticizing Obama for his family's fluff interview, but nothing about this quote or McCain joking about killing the Iranian population with cigarettes.

I haven't heard a single cable news anchor mention this story.

That's because, if they do, their networks' reporters won't get to sit in the front of McBush's plane.

I think Obama will wiat for the moment to use it.  Once said, McCain can't make it dissappear.  This is the DIGITAL age, where Obama can bring it up in 2 months and then the MSM will HAVE to dig it up and show the news.  He can now get MAXIMUM impact as it is a stored moment, ready to be released as needed.  Better the MSM do NOT report on it, so they can be shown to be the biased pieces of &%$% that they tend to be, worshipping the almighty $$$ instead of doing their job.  (Yeah, I am pissed at their lack-luster work performance.)

This is indeed a whole new era.  I think the MSM will have to change radically.  I think this will be McCain's and the GOP's achilles heel...what you say can and WILL be used against you, at any given time.  The Dems have been nailed on this for years, now it seems to be catching up to the rest and man, I can't wait to hear them SCREAM about how unfair it is... :)

because if he doesn't the media is going to commit a slow political assassination.

It's funny because it looked like a planted question to begin with(the woman appeared rehearsed and disinterested). What this remark from McCain confirms is that he doesn't even know how Social Security works. And if a defined benefits pension plan works this way, then the disgrace comes from the fact that it is not structured like a 401k?

This should be hammered away at over and over again, because McCain's corporate media supporters are already gearing up their excuses for why McCain said this. The very first will be of course that he is taken out of context(while a full viewing of the clip shows that he thinks the concept of how this program works is an 'absolute disgrace'). There will likely be a counter-charge leveled by his corporate media supporters to attempt to deflect the issue off of McCain.  

What will be the next 'absolute disgrace'? School lunch programs for the poor? That takes money from young working people and gives it to people that don't earn it either. Ungrateful brats.

So much for reality based community. Now we are becoming a reflection of the right wingers by latching on to everything and distorting comments to gain traction. This is so sad. What did McCAin say that i s so terrible? It would be a good idea not to  have SS program as a generational transfer of wealth.

Guys we don't win with gotcha quotes.

He said its a disgrace that we are having money from the young pay for the old.

He then went on to talk about how do you fix it and the quote cut off.

If his whole point is that the money needs to be invested in something that will bear interest so that you retire on YOUR money and I retire on MY money then that is a statement that most people will get behind.  After all thats how 401ks work.  The problems with SS are precisely because a smaller generation is having to pay for a larger generation who's money wasn't saved but rather spend for the larger generations parents SS.

The average person understands the 100 years in Iraq comment and understand it wasn't a call to 100 years of war and it probably doesn't gain us votes to pretend our fellow American's are "low information voters".  Rather distorting McCain's positions just makes people like me who are on the fence realize once again that Obama is a spin doctor and I can't trust what his disciples say because they are not fundamentally interested in Honesty.

And when I get to thinking like that I remember the Clintons were called racist.

Trust me stick to the facts, don't distort his positions, and have a better platform.

There is no other outcome that will end well.  I call the Bush campaign as witness.

This could ruin him.

I predict it will be about as ruinous for McCain as the following pre-election (2000) statement by George W. Bush was for him:

Because they want the federal government controlling the Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

Republicans don't have to understand domestic programs. The press will shield them.

The only advantage that I see to be made from this is using it in the context of McCain privatizing Social Security. There it can be part of a theme, and is less likely to be seen as just a slip-up or a misspeaking. If it's treated as him not knowing how Social Security works, the press will protect him as they did Bush.

I would like to think Obama could take advantage of this - unfortunately, his own advisor on Social Security, Jeff Leibman, is a disciple of Martin Feldstein, has written numerous articles calling for privatization of Social Security, and therefore probably agrees with McCain on this.  I'll be interested to see if Obama actually criticized McCain on his demonstrated lack of understanding of how Social Security works - and, of course, for continuing the 70 year Republican war on Social Security.