It seems like a looooong time since Obama's spectacular trip to Europe and the Mideast, and since then I've began to feel a palpable loss of energy. What gives?
Maybe it's because here in Ohio, every time I turn on the teevee I see a negative commercial by McCain. I like the Obama 'hands' commercial, but it doesn't do anything to define McCain. In fact, it seems like the Obama team let the opportunity to define McSame as Bush 3 and a flip flopping, blumbering fool has long passed. Voters still think McCain is some sort of 'independant' moderate, and for every one Obama ad there's 3 of McCain's.
And as silly as the McSame ads seem to me, they are apparently working with national and state polls showing a cratering of support. If they weren't working, McSame wouldn't be wasting money on them.
I figured I needed some of that good old fashioned 'hope', so I went to see Obama in Berea, Ohio...which got me charged up as he took a more aggressive tone, but then the vacation came and it just seemed to have fizzled.
So today I couldn't stand it any longer and went to the local Obama office and volunteered. I'm gonna be doing some new voter registration at the local college, and I also made my monthly donation to Obama today.
I'll do my best, but even at the office today I felt like the much-vaunted ground game is a paper tiger. So I can only do my small part and hopefully the Obama team will get on track. But I don't believe this ground game stuff is what it's made up to be, and it'll come down to getting down in McCain's gutter..if it's not too late already.
Just my .02.