Who said this would never happen. I said the Republicans wouldn't touch him until after the convention. They understood the volatility of the situation. So volatile the DNC had to have a sham roll call vote in fear of his losing. Now it's on. Did we bet money on this?
It's hard to win against a team that has no rules. Suddenly they were going to play by them?
Friday, September 12, 2008
Especially for Our Resident Friend/Troll: gobama08!
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Touche! I saw this from a commenter at openleft and thought I'd steal it:
Like every winning Presidential campaign since time immemorial, they were hailed as brilliant, ground-breaking, etc., etc. when they beat Clinton. And of course they did some very good things, organizationally. But the bottom line was that they took a charismatic candidate, overwhelmingly favored by the media, against a media-detested candidate whom they outspent nearly 2-1, and just hung on by the skin of their teeth. In fact, they might not have hung on at all but for pressure exerted by Party elders in the April-June time frame.
This campaign has never known how to seize the initiative. If you looked at their daily press releases throughout the spring, they were constantly all about picking on some little thing Clinton had said. It scored then, because the media wanted to blow up attacks against Clinton, but they're doing the same thing now and it just isn't resonating.
Even Obama's Convention speech was just a clever pastiche of a million and one defenses against every attack ever made on him. You could take almost any paragraph out of that speech at random and I could tell you what attack it was meant to parry.
Obama is still the favorite, but by now he is only a narrow favorite. If his team doesn't find a way to grab the initiative between now and November, he will probably lose, and the only reason I use the word "probably" is because it is possible the Republican team will spectacularly implode.
I've been waiting for Rev. Wright to emerge again.
i saw one in virginia already, will play well to all the pat robertson crowd in the south and the liberty/falwell crowd in the north and of course all the rural areas
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