Instead of immediately criticizing Palin as inexperienced -- the former mayor of a town with less than 10,000 people -- the Obama campaign should have been graceful and withheld comment for a day or two. A statement like "We want the governor to enjoy her day in the sun. As a full time working mom with five kids, she deserves it."
What has impressed me the most about the Obama campaign is its graciousness when it could be mean and petty. How Obama handled the question about Hillary's Bosnia misstatements in the Philadelphia debate -- we all make mistakes, she deserves the benefit of the doubt -- is an example of how he really wants to get away from the Rove/Morris playbook.
There is plenty of time to raise issues about Palin, and the news media will do a lot of that work for Obama.
Obama has run the best presidential campaign in U.S. history. A big reason why is the fundamental decency at its core. That doesn't mean he isn't tough, or shouldn't hit back. It just means he should do the untypical decent stuff that most politicians don't do.