The Obama campaign screwed up badly this last week, so badly that I think we will see some changes in personnel.

Who thought that Obama could go to Germany and not visit the hospital? Was there no one in the campaign that stood up and said you must go? Obviously not, and a sign of a major disconnect from the electorate.

The explanations afterwards were even worse. Anyone with kids recognized the pattern. Ok, a bad decision. Either apologize profusely, or say something like “I intend to make such facilities irrelevant by bringing the troops home” or something. But there was confusion, mostly from the lack of foresight.

The McCain ad was another lack of foresight. Didn’t anyone in his campaign see that acting like a rock star was going to elicit some comment on same? The response was flatfooted, and very counterproductive.

It is obvious that the Obama campaign has no idea how they are seen by a substantial portion of the US population. They obviously have no one at a high level with a feeling for the common folk. I get the feeling that they are responding on all these issues like they are in a flamewar.

It’s going to be an interesting fall.

Derek