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Here we go again

In the palmy days before Hillary dropped out, those of us who had accepted the reality that Obama had won the nomination figured that, with Hillary gone, Obama could concentrate on winning the general election. Who could have guessed that he would immediately start concentrating on losing.

First he turned on his supporters, most famously by sub silentio disavowing his opposition to the FISA bill, but how can we forget his gratuitous support for the Supreme Court’s gun decision and even more disgusting attack on its death penalty decision. Having made it clear to his former supporters that he was going to follow the trail to defeat blazed by Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2008 by trying to appeal to the “moderate” middle”, he then hung John Kerry’s old “Kick Me” sign on his ass by attacking Wes Clark, his own supporter, for pointing out the obvious fact that being a former POW does not in and of itself qualify McCain to be president. Obama has now greenlighted these types of attacks, because he has proven that instead of hitting back he’ll be operating from a defensive crouch. The events of the past few days have convinced me that, whatever the polls might say today, Obama is the decided underdog in this election.

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