[Bitwhacker]

You know, when all of this is over and people start looking back on when the tide started to turn against The One, I think they will be pointing to the 'above my pay grade' response to Rick Warren's question about when a baby gets human rights. Nobama delivered that line in full baritone and exactly the way he intended to say it, and, to Nobama's horror, it fell flat. I think that was the first time he had no real backup for a major screw-up.

Runners-up would be:

- The Palin Pick (and the resulting smear campaign)
- The lawsuit to have the producer of a 527 ad prosecuted
- The shutdown of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Library Archives and subsequent re-opening for Stanley Kurtz in re the Chicago Annenberg Challenge papers
- The Biden Pick (aka the Hitlery snub)

I really think that Nobama would have had the election wrapped up if he had picked Hitlery, because you know she would have been able to take shots at Palin and would have had the media right behind her handing her ammunition....;-))

[Jemian]

I agree the “above my pay grade” was the start of the turn. But it would have been recoverable except for the absolutely brilliant follow-ups by the McCain Camp. Choosing Palin pulled the base in and we were not in before that. What is finishing off Nobama is the lipstick smear. You should never beat up on a woman.

[prairiebreeze]

I honestly think that not picking Hillary will come to be seen as the biggest tactical error made by a democrat campaign in decades.

I also think that Hill and Obama can’t stand one another and perhaps that’s why Obama knew that even he couldn’t put on an act that well for that long in the public eye.

Good post btw. Let’s hope Biden continues to run his mouth.