Obama not ready to face the GOP attack machine. Yeah, and Louis wasn't ready for Schmeling. (Sorry, I didn't say that, you didn't read it.) Look, I just read Peggy Noonan in the WSJ. Her take is it is "not race, not liberalism," it's INEXPERIENCE that's will be his problem with voters. He hasn't "struggled, hasn't suffered." Geez. These establishment columnists who know it all but effortlessly evade obvious logic.

Did George suffer? No, he was elected on his daddy's coattails and a Texas accent. Did Bill suffer? Did Reagan "struggle?" So why does she say these things? A touch of racism? A plaintive cry from the older generation? Who cares. Issues aside, it will boil down to the strength of his charisma. I wouldn't underestimate it.

Posted at April 19, 2008 1:45 AM in response to Debating Electability

Gretz, why characterize Obama (I assume) as a leftist ideologue? Although I'd like to see a more nuanced view of economic realities from him (see David Brooks comments today in NYT) a guy that would like to save 3 billion a day by exiting a pointless war and try to fix a health care system that's the laughing stock of the world doesn't seem like such an ideologue. You're simply buying into mindless GOP name-calling. Do you do this for fun? It's not funny. I am as depressed as anyone over the undeniable stupidity of so much of the American electorate, but why accept the vicious neocon categorizations of the only reasonable people around?

Posted at April 16, 2008 8:15 AM in response to McCain-Gramm Economics