Are you serious? Barnes (and you) believe this, after the single most successful convention opening night in 40 years?
Barnes wasn't talking about the Convention. He was talking about responses and the Bush teams failure to mount effective responses to situations and allegations. He even went as far to say that the WH mouthpiece (McClellan) appears timid and afraid of the press.
That is not a good picture. The Bush 'we can't win the war on terrorism' comment was actually taped Saturday. So they should have known. It aired Monday morning--and the Dems jumped on it immediately. The Bush team didn't respond until Monday afternoon. Result--damage already done. [This is just one example of poor PR.]
Remember back when the Clinton team would be spinning all over the media immediately after, in some cases during, bad news breaking. They headed off bad news every effectively.
I saw Fred on Brit's roundtable. Needlessly fretting over the silly "win" business.
Woman from here in Tucson in MSG leading the pledge!