I am shocked at the Obama supporters who let the fact that he's a good candidate and he's right on a lot of other issues and he's 10000% better than McCain convince them to say something like "he has to make some tough calls to win the race" and basically cast his actions on FISA as a smart campaign move.

The immunity provision is bullshit and not making a bigger issue about it is a big deal. The reflexive urge to defend Obama's actions reminds me of 1998, when everyone was trying to justify that Clinton getting blow jobs in the oval office was ok because it was his private life, or because Ken Starr was on a witch hunt, or because it was ridiculous to impeach. None of that made Clinton's actions ok. Same story here--just cause Obama's our guy, doesn't mean this isn't a screw up.

HOWEVER... the ones who are really to blame are our other Democrats, not our candidate.

Reading through various endgame comments on the Democratic primary, I have seen several analogies to describe the situation. HRC is running out of runway. She's down 100 points and its the fourth quarter. She wants to go to extra innings, etc.  Here's my contribution to how Obama should be framing this: the superdelegates are boxing judges.

The Air Force has come down hard on 70 people involved in the mis-handling of nuclear weapons, resulting in a B-52 unknowingly transporting them across the US.

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