Obama drops vision, becomes attack dog

The old saying is "dance with the one who brung ya."

Obama has abandoned the soaring rhetoric, the gauzy, fuzzy, feel good phrases in his stump speeches. He sounds like Al Gore or John Kerry, in the old liberal attack dog mode of "Hate Bush." Having little luck running against John McCain and Sarah Palin, he has fallen out of the visionary, futuristic "dream with me" of his early campaign, back into the same old Democratic tactics.

They failed in the last two elections, and almost certainly will this time. George Bush is term limited and can't run again. He is not a candidate in this election, and America is ready to move on. Obama is virtually abandoning the change theme to McCain and Palin.

As tragic as the big Wall Street blowout was today, and the inevitable collapse of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, blaming it on Bush is hardly going to gain credibility with the American people. Particularly since it was the liberals in Congress who outlawed redlining and virtually demanded that lenders make housing loans to unqualified people.

When the loans defaulted and brought the collapse of the lenders, hardly a surprise, it can't be credibly put at Bush's door. Obama has got to do better than that.

America is tired of sniveling and finger-pointing. They want solutions and and liberation from the past. McCain and Palin have seized on that, co-opting Obama's own message and rhetoric. Unless he returns to the vision and future message, he is a dead duck.