The haphazard and delinquent effort to catch up to McCain’s energy policy blitz (which has been going on for weeks now) also tells us something else: Obama thinks he can ignore whatever McCain is doing.
It is not surprising for the candidate who considers himself already President to disregard what his opponent is up to.
The temptation is great to try to run out the clock and get by on pablum and pretty pictures.
But Obama does it at his peril . He is now struggling to find a way to counteract the McCain energy offensive.
You have the feeling that each day will bring a new challenge/gambit from the McCain camp (What’s next? Jiffy Lube tune-ups for the entire press corps?) and the rest of the day will be spent watching Obama and his media allies trying to swat away the incoming fire.
It is what happens when you take a victory lap months before the first votes are cast.
