Hugh Hewitt on Democratic unease

The Dems are nominating the most radical major party candidate in history, whose thin record is relentlessly hard left, and whose rhetoric of change and hope cannot cover the fact that he has never worked across the aisle, has never sought to reform the deeply corrupt Chicago or Illinois political machines, and that he is hopelessly out of his depth on foreign policy and national security issues.
(hughhewitt.townhall.com)

The momentum toward complete victory in Iraq pulled the carpet out from under Barack Obama's centerpiece campaign issue, which was at least enough to convince anti-war types that Obama's judgment was sound. Minus that, Obama has foundered in his attempts to flesh out a specific vision for hope and change--that is, one that represents something other than hard left radicalism.

This week's convention represents a pivotal point in the Obama campaign. If he can't turn substantive at the convention while at the same time describing policies with wide appeal then there is presently no good reason why McCain can't win the presidency.