For my money Cafferty hits the nail on the head as often and almost w/ the same gusto as Keith Olberman!

That clip reminded me that Hillary is still running for President.  I had forgot for a second.

The Crescent of the "Rust Belt" that includes large swathes of Appalachia, where we are getting many of our troop enlistments .... that have "rednecks" and scott-irish .... those folks are Webb's people.

Compare  Jim Webb's vision of economic populism to Obama's, they track closely... match his strategic vision to Obama's instinct to avoid the war in Iraq ... and throw in the needed reform of our judicial / penal system ...

Well taken together you have the "Dream Team" Nancy Pelosi was talking about ... two intellectual, accomplished and charismatic leaders who can bring about "Change we can Believe In".

With that ticket we can't go wrong in the fall. It's just that somebody needs to clue in the uninspiring and evermore annoying Billary campaign.

One thing in the above video that surprised me, was when Obama said that people haven't been voting based on economic issues because they don't think anyone will help them.

It seems to me that generally speaking, people do usually vote based on their pocketbooks or wallets.  

Perhaps what he was driving at is that there are numbers of people who haven't been voting for anyone who will increase taxes, because they don't think that the government will spend the money wisely and that they would end up worse off, not better off.          

extremes of both Hillary and McCain in mischaracterizing Obama's statements.

Note that Obama isn't afraid to refer to his two opponents by name, whereas Hillary ... and Bill, for that matter ... ALWAYS refers to him as "my opponent".  This is another old rhetorical trick designed to depersonalize and therefore minimize her worthy opponent.  It's so old it's stale, and she should stop stooping to such things.  I was hoping that we'd see a better rhetorical approach by Hillary after that bloated idiot Penn exited her campaign, but she's still bogging herself down in seeking to isolate and attack individual statements by Obama instead of grabbing his statements and running with them.  She lacks a comprehensive, global message, instead choosing to pick, pick, pick at him.  She's like a divebombing blue jay trying to distract a cat from the bird's fledgling.  Most of the time the cat still gets the fledgling, sometimes the cat gets the blue jay, and almost never does the cat exit the field wounded or dissuaded.  Hillary needs to see that the point isn't to attack the cat, but to save the fledgling and get it back in the nest.  

If Hillary had said something to the effect of Obama not putting the issue the way she would have, but thanking him for bringing up the issue so she could highlight it and explain what she was going to do about it, she would have completely sandbagged him and deprived him of the subsequent brilliant riposte he got against her AND McCain.  Geez, the approach she uses makes it look like two Republicans beating up on one Democrat.  Wrong, wrong, wrong.  Someone please find this woman a good debate coach.
 

Your parable brought this to mind for me.  I was a passenger in a car once, and saw a grackle dive-bombing a squirrel, which got distracted and ran out into the road to avoid the bird, and the car I was in ran over the squirrel.  Thump-thump.  The bird was left flitting from branch to branch in the tree in triumph.  That's as good as it gets for a songbird.