Howard Fineman has a piece up at MSNBC on what he thinks were the biggest mistakes made by Senator Obama to date. I don’t fault anything on the list, but, shouldn’t Fineman have shared these things earlier? If anything, Fineman and the media made excuses for Senator Obama when each of these mistakes was being made. The list:

Declining to take federal financing for the general election
Declining McCain’s offer to hold ten town hall debates
Failing to go all the way with the Clintons
The 22-state strategy
Failing to state a sweeping, but concrete, policy idea
Remaining trapped in professor-observer speak
Failing to attack McCain early