Is Obama Now Beatable?

By Eric Pfeiffer | March 19, 2008 1:24 PM | | Comments (0)

Jonathan Martin talks to GOP strategists who say the Jeremiah Wright story has now created an opening for the GOP to effectively take down Barack Obama, something they admittedly struggled with until this point. Of course, getting strategists from one party to criticize another party's candidate isn't tough work, but the sentiment is resonating in the conservative blogosphere, especially with a new Reuters poll showing McCain leading both Obama and Clinton and outside the margin or error.

Michael Goldfarb:

Obama has been fatally wounded, and yet the Democratic party superdelegates, who exist solely to prevent such a catastrophe in a close primary battle, can do nothing about it. If they hand the nomination to Clinton, the party loses the black vote, and Clinton cannot win without those votes.

Fatally wounded? That's fatally wounded logic when we're still more than seven months away from the election. Obama may prove to be an Achilles, but he could also show a sustained ability to fight back from adversity.

Reason's David Weigel makes a similar point to one I've previously made here about the lack of depth to the "Obama isn't a patriot" meme. However, pointing out the logical failings of an argument by no means guarantees it won't resonate with voters:

Obama's own "anti-America" moments in this chain have been limited to not wearing a flag pin and not putting his hand on his heart while singing the the national anthem. (The photos that circulate over e-mail claim this was actually during the Pledge, which isn't true.) The dynamite evidence in United States v. Obama (2008) is the rhetoric of Obama's wife and his pastor.

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