Organizing for Obama & America 2.0: Obama reaches out to McCain, more Palin stumbling & bumbling and trends or movements?

I received an exchange of an ongoing email from an esteemed professor of my past who was a close colleague of Professor George Mosse who literally wrote the books on 20th Century fascism having escaped Berlin Germany in 1933 when he was 15 years as his father and grandfather were publishers and editors of Berlin's last remaining newspaper Berliner Tageblatt. This academic acquaintance has often stated that Mosse always believed that America was too big and diverse to allow fascism to take over. Now this esteemed scholar says he believes we have come to the brink of an outright takeover after Bush's eight years. Obama and his movement is final chance of a non-violent unpeeling but there will be much to do and great courage to expose this cabal and renew our Republic.

I know this seems to be radical for many, some in my family or friends network who are blind, disinterested, denying the reality or merely drunk with misguided nationalism but the reality is true. Fascism is the open partnering of big business (namely the financial industry), government and the military with absolute or one party authoritarian rule. How close are we when there is FOX News which also owns the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post where many Americans get all their one-party news, when the President and his Treasury sought to bail out and gift the remaining treasury to the Big Banks and Finance houses of Wall Street during a panic they engineered? When the military is steeped in two wars of conquest? When the propaganda exists that we are in a perpetual war against a cultural enemy abroad and within. When we have seen a systematic decoupling of the rule of law with the Attorney General's office even using prosecution for political purposes instead of criminal cases. When torture, kidnapping and secret prisons are not only administered but openly justified? Just a thought how important this election will be looking forward and back.

Now a Obama reach out and McCain's 'tell'

One of the great things about the Congress is that like most of our courts there is an audience, the gallery and of course CSPAN. CQ Politics of course was there for the historic bail out (err. Rescue and Recovery Plan) vote when this personal theater took place.

Let the record reflect that Barack Obama made the approach to John McCain tonight.

As the two shared the Senate floor tonight for the first time since they won their party nominations, Obama stood chatting with Democrats on his side of the aisle, and McCain stood on the Republican side of the aisle.

So Obama crossed over into enemy territory.

He walked over to where McCain was chatting with Republican Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida and Independent Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut. And he stretched out his arm and offered his hand to McCain.

McCain shook it, but with a “go away” look that no one could miss. He tried his best not to even look at Obama.

Finally, with a tight smile, McCain managed a greeting: “Good to see you.”

Obama got the message. He shook hands with Martinez and Lieberman — both of whom greeted him more warmly — and quickly beat a retreat back to the Democratic side.

As an inactive Executive Search professional who hunted for CEO's, COO's and CFO's non verbal language is often a bigger component to understanding a potential leader than the words which are well rehearsed and parsed during the evaluation process. Anger Management professionals hold that "anger is often an emotion that masks other emotions". His lack of eye contact suggests one of two things: Watch the Debate footage.

He doesn't want to make eye contact because he is prone to losing control of his emotions if he deals directly with the other person---
His anger masks fear and the eye contact may increase or substantiate the fear.

This was noticeable during the Republican primary debates even though the press did not pick up on it or failed to report it like now in the First Presidential Debate.

Another theory running around is the Monkey Ranking Theory: McCain was afraid of Obama. It was really clear where other clues are how much McCain blinked in the first half hour. Studies in monkey behavior illustrate that low ranking monkeys don't look at high ranking monkeys---Either way most perceive he is unwilling to acknowledge the opponent's legitimacy and/or is contemptuous of the opponent be it fear or something---whatever it actually is this is a serious character flaw and is disqualifier for leadership.

Just to pile on the evidence here is a video of McCain with the Des Moines Registar's Editorial Board where he almost blows a fuse....look for the nashing of the teeth.

And to think the RIGHT keeps trying to paint Obama and Biden as flawed?

Palin and her intellectual cavities.

By now even if you tried you probably were unable to avoid Palin's continuing interview with Katie Couric and her answer regarding Supreme Court cases. When asked to discuss another Supreme Court case that she might have disagreed with other than Roe versus Wade she basically said Roe! This is now a common even laughable if it were not that she is running for Vice President. Let me review:

ABC News and Bush Doctrine....
CBS News and 'The Bail Out Plan' and the reform it was going to do with Healthcare
CBS News and 'I have to get back to you' on what McCain regulation initiatives.
CBS News and what newspapers do you read; 'All of them'
CBS News and Supreme Court.
FOX News and Palin and Infomercial comparison
Palin's Greatest Hits from Talking Points Memo

One could say that CBS is a stealth killer to the McCain-Palin ticket where they were skewered by the RIGHT over the Dan Rather story on Bush and the National Guard in 2004. We now know that CBS was set up in that story but as CBS allows Palin to talk and talk she is showing herself to be a blithering idiot of historical proportions. One item overlooked from the Couric interview is the Privacy question.

Not knowing any Supreme Court decision she opposes except for Roe v. Wade ain't great. That however PALES though, for the Christian right of probably a bigger goof in her latest segment with CBS. Immediately after saying what a terrible decision Roe was, Palin got a follow-up question from Couric:

"[Whether] she believes there's a constitutional 'right to privacy'.

And Palin said, 'yes', and then rambled on about States Rights....

Narrowly speaking, you canhold that a constitutional right to privacy exists while also opposing Roe v Wade. But the right to privacy, is one of the cornerstones of Roe. And in the public debate yes or no on the right to privacy is something pretty close to a proxy for your position on abortion rights. The thing is The bottom line is: Conservative opposition to a constitutional 'right to privacy' is a straight-up litmus test issue---period. Palin not only didn't have the right answer on the right to privacy it is cyrstal clear she'd never even heard of it before.

More Polls....a trend is now a movement

Obama now leads GOP rival McCain 49 percent to 40 percent among registered voters in a new CBS News poll. The nine-point spread marks an increase of four percentage points in Obama's lead from a CBS News/New York Times poll taken last week. Obama also leads by nine points among likely voters, 50 percent to 41 percent. Others below:

BATTLEGOUND STATES

One thing of note is that after enjoying an 18 point lead back in the middle of Septe

mber McCain's lead in the Peach State of Georgia is down to 6 points (In/ADV) This coincides with big movements in Missouri, Indiana and Nevada which are now considered battleground states. Is this the Palin effect where now CBS is reporting that 60% of the electorate is saying she is unqualified to be President this up from 51% recorded a week earlier in the PEW poll. My take is that this is the cascading effect of Palin revelations, economic is solid week and McCain's debate performance on top of the mendicity campaign theme.