Thanks as often to WSJ.com’s Political Diary for this:
“The cracks are growing in the Democratic unity dam. And McCain may be on the verge of getting his act together. Sen. Barack Obama needs to step off his ‘holier than thou’ platform and get his designer shoes dirty. He needs to let voters catch a glimpse of the regular guy who may actually lurk under his veneer of superiority.
From using a logo resembling a presidential seal at one speech earlier this year (an obvious error and never seen again) to addressing a crowd of 200,000 in Berlin and meeting with heads of state before he has reason to, Obama’s puerile self-absorption may backfire on him and turn off the very voters he needs to turn on: the white working class.
Obama needs to humanize himself. His campaign has done too good a job of apotheosizing him”
— liberal columnist Bonnie Erbe, writing in U.S. News & World Report.
“Puerile self-absorption” says a lot.
Among Erbe’s accomplishments, etc. is that she hosts PBS’s weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe.
Add this to the mix:
A new CNN/Opinion Research poll out Wednesday shows that despite nine solid days of blanket media coverage from overseas with Barack Obama cheered by adoring throngs of Germans and parlez-vousing with the French, making a three-point shot in the Middle East and standing outside No. 10 Downing Street, the freshman Illinois
senator is stuck right where he was in the polls before he left.
No bounce. Not even a roll.
Woe is he?
Blithe Spirit 
Maybe the prayers of believers are working?
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