The 2008 presidential campaign is shaping up as a now-typical GOP one -- and, alas, an all-too-typical Democratic one

ON THE GOP SIDE --

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AND ON THE DEMS' SIDE --

by Noah

I often suspect that, after he apparently won the nomination, Obama was pulled into a room and told by the folks who really run things that he had done a nice job and now THIS IS HOW IT'S GONNA BE. It's like the Clintons smiled knowingly and told him they would be his initiation guides into the secret club, while the masters smiled approvingly on the other side of the two-way mirror. The Obama CHANGE is more than running left in the primary and moving right in the general, it's a personality change. Forced or chosen?

Sleep well. :) We may just live in the 9th Circle. Read the sign on the door. Hope? My ass.

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