Can a Broken Clock

be right twice a day?

Robert Novak does have a few points about Obama:

Obama and his advisers know better. Though he revealed political inexperience by thinking that what he said in San Francisco would stay in San Francisco, he is savvy enough to apologize profusely for "gaffes" and "errors." But he considers his blunder one of style, not substance. Actually, while seeming to be anti-gun or anti-church is self-destructive for a candidate, even raising Frank's thesis is dangerous.

The trick for Obama is to distance himself from the rhetoric while holding to the theory, as restructured in last week's debate: "Yes, [the American people] are in part frustrated and angry" by "manufactured" issues. Indeed, he said, beating "to death" this issue is "not helping that person . . . trying to figure out how to pay the bills at the end of the month."

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