It’s understandable that Obama would talk this way with an organization that is essentially what remains of the campaign staff that didn’t get jobs in the White House. But his comments at the OFA rally strike me as more proof that Obama is not only still in campaign mode, but that he doesn’t have a whole lot of relevant experience to draw on other than his campaign experience. The problem is that he’s not in an election campaign. He’s trying to sell a radical overhaul of American public policy. They’re different things. What the Obama campaign experienced in Iowa was dramatic and what’s happening now is dramatic, but the similarities start to unravel after that. Except the Iowa fight was all about Obama, selling him to voters, winning trust, etc. Maybe Obama thinks the health-care fight is all about him too. Such thinking got him into this mess in the first place, I doubt it will get him out.

US President Barack Obama launched a mocking counter-attack Thursday at pundits who believe the euphoric early promise of his presidency is evaporating amid bitter political warfare.
Obama, who has watched his poll ratings dip sharply over recent months, drew comparisons to his 2008 presidential campaign, which was several times all but written off by media experts who set prevailing political wisdom.
“We have been through this before, in Iowa,” Obama said, referring to the first state to hold a 2008 Democratic nominating contest, which saw him capture a come-from-behind win.
“All Washington said ‘Oh, it’s over,’ hand-wringing angst …”
Then Obama drew parallels to the media frenzy that greeted the nomination of firebrand Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin in 2008.
“The media was obsessed with it, cable was 24 hours a day,” Obama told a friendly audience of grass-roots Democratic activists at a Washington forum broadcast live over the web.
“‘Obama’s lost his mojo,’ you remember all that?
“There is something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee weed up!”