Reports from the trail indicate that Barack Obama has been off his game, apparently having been beaten into a lifeless campaigning torpor by the veritable waterboarding that George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson put him through last week. Even noted Obama-phile Joe Klein has taken note of the new and not improved champion of hope and change, actually mixing in a little criticism with his typical sycophancy:
How bad have things gotten for Obama on the trail? Check out this gaffe that the AP captured:
I seem to recall a wise man once saying that when Obama lacks a teleprompter, the stuff that comes out just isn’t that good. Oh yeah – I was that wise man. Anyway, since Obama appears intent on basing his general election campaign on the theme that a McCain victory would be tantamount to a third term for George W. Bush, this latest flub shows he can’t stay on message for even the most basic stuff when a teleprompter isn’t lighting the way. Or, as one of my favorite bloggers Tom Maguire put it, “I love these ‘Ooops, I accidentally said what I actually believe’ gaffes.”
