The Obama campaign had a Convention hang-over yesterday. They were engulfed in the Palin news tsunami, they barked and then retreated in their criticism of McCain’s VP pick, they tried every desperate attack they could dream up (that’s it- let’s turn the Governor of Alaska into an anti-Semite!), dissed small-town America and saw the Hillary Clinton voter rift reappear before the confetti was cleaned up from the stadium field.

This seems to reaffirm that the Obama campaign, like its candidate, is great on the set pieces of politics but lousy on the bruising give-and-take of day-to-day political combat. The Obama campaign’s ads are generally boring and reactive, their daily retorts over-the-top and their push-backs (e.g. the Bill Ayers ad, the Palin sneer) poorly thought out. Is this inexperience or poor judgment?  Both the campaign and the candidate leave you wondering.

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