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To: LindyBill who wrote (267851)	9/11/2008 4:25:46 PM
From: DMaA	9 Recommendations Respond to of 793964

To: LindyBill who wrote (267851)	9/11/2008 4:32:31 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Stop It Now! [Victor Davis Hanson] This feeds into the view (I know I've said it) of Obama as the minor-league phenom who was rushed into the Bigs too quickly because the team needed that right arm. Now it's the World Series, and the rookie is crumpling under the pressure.

To: LindyBill who wrote (267851)	9/11/2008 4:38:42 PM
From: mph	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793964

Stop It Now! [Victor Davis Hanson] There will be more ebbs and flows to come, but right now for the moment Obama is in a partial meltdown mood. Given the number of issues that Obama has contradicted himself on—2004 vows not to run for the Presidency, Rev. Wright, capital punishment, taxes, Iran, the surge, drilling, FISA laws, public campaign financing, etc—it is odd to see him increasingly and in really angry fashion evoke "lies!" and "lying!" when he talks of McCain. Something is happening. Apparently the Palin presence has gotten to the legendarily easy cool Obama in a way nothing has before, as he seems alternately petulant, frustrated, outraged, and, well, downright madder than hell. Is it his fear that he's lost his monopoly on hope and change hero worship to a rival fresh maverick? Are her crowds approaching his? Is it anger that Palin is so easily drawing identity-politics support of the sort he once so carefully worked at to jump-start his own campaign? Is it realization that since law school, Chicago politics, the default Senate race, no one has ever really questioned his sincerity or competence, and that to do so now is in some way illiberal and unfair—blasphemous even? Is it that his furor over her outside status only boomerangs questions back to him over his own level of relative experience? Is it frustration that his actual attacks on her now raise sexism charges in a way his own preemptory past use of the race card has ensured that everyone has heretofore gone easy on him? Who knows?— but even diehard Obama supporters sense that the mom of five from Alaska in her high heels and middle -American twang just keeps coming, the more smeared and slandered, the more she waves, smiles, says "Hi guys!" and goes on, McCain at her side basking in reflected adulation. This may not last, and Palin will have to do her interviews and give new speeches, but for the present all this simply was not supposed to happen, and someone, somewhere better stop it—now! Hanson took the words right out of my mouth!I keep picturing BO and Michelle stomping their feet and throwing things out of vexation.