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• I guess the real question is whether these are just campaign missteps due to inexperience at running for national office, or whether they are symptomatic of inexperience at handling such complex issues on such a large scale.
  
  In other words, is he not laying out a clear rationale for his candidacy because he doesn't know how to campaign or because he doesn't know what the rationale is? What's your take on this?

  By  Mad Hatter, at 9:24 PM  

• It's impossible to know, of course. I think the most likely possibility is that Obama has been trapped by his own message of "unity" and "hope." If you try to run a relentlessly positive campaign, it makes it very hard to draw contrasts between you and your opponents. And without those contrasts, there's no way to give any reason for voting for you. Obama seems to have thought that he could get anti-gay preachers and gay activists to talk to each other, which while noble in sentiment is really better suited to a sitting President - assuming of course that one should give homophobes any respect at all. Which I don't.

  By  Arbitrista, at 8:25 AM  

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