I think the shiny and new Obama is starting to look slightly used and is beginning to sound a lot like a rerun.

Clinton, OTOH, as many are noticing this week (including Maureen Dowd of the NYT, who suggested the cause was rooted in Hillary Clinton being a vampire, sucking Obama's life out of him--ahem), seems to living off her bounce and still be going strong, if not somewhat robotically.

She tends to change up her speeches, adjust her messages, etc. Whereas Obama's speechwriters appear to be on strike. Same speech every stump stop is the way it works, of course. However, there was quite a bit of grumbling, for instance, over Earth Day escaping the notice of the Obama campaign without them making a single twitter over it.

But for anyone who says the campaign is going on too long, I think they are either not paying attention, or don't give a shit about the health of Democratic party. This campaign is the best thing that has happened on the local level to draw in new faces in a long time. So the party ranks are getting a much needed boost and refill, but it is probably happening at the expense of some of the national big wigs.

Which is why Dean is so pissed off, and African American voters convinced that Clinton is intentionally trying to personally destroy Obama. I don't think she is, she would be doing the same to whomever was standing between her and her White House. And I don't think Obama is being destroyed at all--I think he will, even if he doesn't get the nomination, come back really strong for the next round.