On Spin
I reread "Me First" blog and I'm not happy with it. It didn't convey how pissed off I am with Clinton's tactics over the last few weeks.

The Clinton campaign has resorted to trash talk: the VP chatter, the 3 am phone call, the attacks on Obama's 'inexperience,' the claims of momentum. I'd like to believe that the trash talk does not work but a close reading of the exit polls in Ohio and Texas seems to show it did, so the Clintons will be stick with it.

Unfortunately, the inexperience attacks have worked. Obama has to respond effectively. Those 'inexperience' arguments can easily be turned around on Clinton and supplemented with counter-charges about judgment.

I happen to think that Obama has run a better campaign, not in the media spin sense, but being better organized on ground, better prepared for a long campaign and has more or less matched his public message to it. Clinton, however, has relentlessly played the expectations game and spun each demographic twist but her campaign has made some fundamental misjudgements. They were surprised by Iowa, they miscalculated South Carolina and they thought Super Tuesday would be the end. All the Clinton spin feels like "hey batter, batter, batter" chatter rather electoral fundamentals.