I find myself analyzing all these politics from a deconstructionist standpoint. I'm evaluating the performance, not on its merits but on how it embodies what political performance should be. Not that I don't appreciate most of Obama's substantive policy positions, but I know you win campaigns on the appearance and artifice of campaigning, and that will make or break this campaign. And I guess I'm getting emotionally mixed up in it too, but ultimately I'm taking a detached viewpoint of it all.
