DID HE READ HIS OWN COLUMN?:

Where's Obama's Passion? (Joe Klein, 8/21/08, TIME)

One of the great strengths of the Obama candidacy has been the sense that this is a guy whose blood doesn't boil, who carefully considers the options before he reacts—and that his reaction is always measured and rational. [...]

Heading into a crucial moment in this race—his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention—Obama was failing as a candidate in two crucial areas. He had failed to define his opponent, and he was failing, in all but the most amorphous ways, to define himself. He desperately needed to do unto McCain what McCain had done unto him: hammer his opponent in a sustained, thematic way—not just a few tossed-away lines in a stump speech. That shouldn't be too difficult. An argument can be made that McCain is trigger-happy overseas and out of touch at home. [...]

But Obama seems not to have fully assimilated what should be the message of his campaign: It's the economy, egghead.

No, it's the eggheadism, Bright.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 21, 2008 6:38 AM