* * * Like Palin, he's a rookie, but in his 19 months on the national stage he has achieved fluency in areas in which he has no experience. In the foreign policy debate with McCain, as in his July news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Obama held his own -- fluid, familiar and therefore plausibly presidential.Needless to say, I hope Krauthammer is right, but anyone out there who thinks Obama will win this in a landslide in living in FantasyLand.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he had a "second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament." Obama has shown that he is a man of limited experience, questionable convictions, deeply troubling associations (Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko) and an alarming lack of self-definition -- do you really know who he is and what he believes? Nonetheless, he's got both a first-class intellect and a first-class temperament. That will likely be enough to make him president.
This baby is going to go right down to the wire. McCain had a rough past couple of weeks, but I have no doubt that his campaign will pull its act together and really take the fight to Obama.
And once we start hearing about Rev. Wright, Tony Rezko, and William Ayres on a daily basis, the polls will start tightening up in a big way, particularly in places like Minnesota and Virginia. That's just the way it works.
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