Jeff is back at 'em and he writes:

Judging by Bill Cunningham's performance the other day, we'll be getting lots more of this on right-wing radio this summer and fall if Obama is the nominee. Those fools are all too eager to refight the culture wars even if Obama is running like Gnarls Barkley from that era in his life.

I've made this point before: he should just put them to rest--embrace his activist days and talk about how the nation and world are all the better because students fought against apartheid and for diversity.

Jeff, you're right, Obama needs to make better use of his activist days.  He has to be confident in the fact that the anti-apartheid struggle was a just cause, and that he was on the right side of this struggle.  One way to do this is to invoke Mandela so that he can make sure that people have a clear sense of where his moral barometer rests when he brings up his days as an activist.  Clearly, liberals should not apologize for things that the conservatives are not willing to seek absolution for in their own pasts.  I haven't heard anyone on the right taking back their actions during the Gingrich revolution, and we know how much they revere Reagan.  

The Farrakhan debate only showed that Obama is not only skilled at defusing troubling situations, but also that he's incredibly impatient when he feels that he's being forced to engage a trivial issue.  Russert clearly lit his fuse in that exchange.  As I suggested before I'm surprised that Clinton was able to interject herself into that exchange without saying the name Arafat because that's who she was alluding to. 

Straight up, I don't even know what to think about the economic situation in this country/debate.  Fortune had a cheeky piece the other day suggesting that Bernanke should consider a negative interest rate.  

What if Obama suddenly starts preaching the gospel of "green jobs?"

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