The ABC news crew thinks Barack Obama’s flip-flopping that may be depressing young voters and taking the glow off the Great Man. Byron York’s Democratic source has the same take: the campaign is hurting the brand. Democrats in Congress think he’s given them the brush off and is insular. (What’s telling there is that they are grumbling to the media.)

Or maybe Hillary Clinton was right all along and he is just not passing the 3 a.m. test. The Washington Post opines:

The message that the Democrat sends is that he is ultimately indifferent to the war’s outcome — that Iraq “distracts us from every threat we face” and thus must be speedily evacuated regardless of the consequences. That’s an irrational and ahistorical way to view a country at the strategic center of the Middle East, with some of the world’s largest oil reserves. Whether or not the war was a mistake, Iraq’s future is a vital U.S. security interest. If he is elected president, Mr. Obama sooner or later will have to tailor his Iraq strategy to that reality.

In a nutshell, Obama and his team wrongly believed that they already had made the sale to voters and could coast to victory in November. Perhaps they can still do that — after all Obama leads in all the national polls. But now Obama is being asked to do something he’s never done: prove his mettle as commander-in-chief, confront an aggressive media, and get out of his cocoon. He doesn’t like to operate out of his “comfort zone,” we have been told. But to win he will have to do just that.

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