From Bloomberg:
The campaign's ``novelty has worn off,'' said Representative Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat. The Obama campaign ``seems to have lost its speed, its response time.''
Pascrell’s right about the novelty, of course, but the speed and response time? It was never there. When you’re the change candidate, parrying your opponent’s every utterance as “same old this” or “more of the same that,” you look like you’re going 80 mph standing still.
But when you lose change (and reform, to boot), suddenly the Left’s scriptural candidate is revealed to be the scripted candidate. You find yourself responding, explaining what you meant to Letterman, blaming the media, overshooting, and generally stepping in it.
Are the speechwriters supposed to scream like that? Is that smoke coming out of their ears? Now it’s events that look like they're going 80, and you’re standing still.
