Once again a call to arms. The moral of the story is you do not play nice with thugs. Obama campaign has got the message. Obama is fighting back against the smears with a  very strong and broad based attack on McCain. Now he has to close the deal.

I don't know about you but with everyday that goes by with Palin on TV spewing her verbage and McCain acting like the creepy/weird old dude getting a kick off his "prize" I feel nauseated, I feel apprehensive that things might still change and I feel bewildered that in spite of the thousands of missteps by McCain and Palin, their campaign is still hobbling along like a lame horse dragging itself along the race track hoping that the other contestants ahead would self-destruct.

Watch the video above and read the transcript below.

This is the clip that's going viral:

This is a personal perspective of the way things stand. You can even say that this is from the perspective of an ex-Obama-skeptic who has now embraced the Democratic ticket whole-heartedly knowing all the things at stake.

Right now in this country there is a big vacuum in leadership. When people dissect McCain's economic plan they can only come to one conclusion: it is low on specifics. He spent most of his speech attacking Obama. Even George Will, a conservative, found his demeanor "un-presidential", "substituting vehemence for coherence". Watch:

So says Peggy Noonan. To fully expand her quote:

A fearless prediction: My beautiful election enters its dark phase.

Lots of signs of the new darkness. Mr. Obama's army is swarming, blocking lines when Obama critics show up for radio interviews. A study out Thursday said the Obama campaign has become more negative than the McCain campaign. There is the hacking--no one at this point knows by whom--of Sarah Palin's personal email account. From Mr. Obama himself, a new edge. He tells an audience in Elko, Nev., to "argue" with McCain supporters and "get in their face." Bambi is playing Chicago style. No doubt everyone around him has been saying, and for some weeks now, "Get tough." But this is not how to get tough, and it does not reflect a shrewd reading of what the moment demands. People want depth, not ferocity. We've got nerves that jingle-jangle-jingle.

And it gives Mr. McCain a beautiful opening. He can now play Oldest and Wisest, damning the new meanness more in sorrow than in anger.

Everyone here remembers the now infamous ad against Harold Ford Jr. which has gone into the annals of Republican sleaze as the "call me" ad. Well just when you thought that it cannot be topped here is the next one: