The progressive blogosphere and a few journalists who lean largely towards Barack Obama in the primary, are up in arms today over last night’s debate. In a word, Obama got trounced in last night’s debate and now the Obama central progressiv…

Agreed. Last night WAS a total disaster for Obama and his handlers. It just proved to me what I’ve always been suspecting, which is that since Obamaland can’t even handle a level playing field (I know the Big Orange Blog Boyz think otherwise, but ABC was fair to BOTH candidates by hammering them both) & friendly fire from other Democrats, then how the heck will Obama be able to handle a hostile media and a scorched earth campaign from the Rethuglicans?

And btw, have you all seen this?

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/4/17/132548/243

If Gov. Rendell’s happy with Hill’s debate performance, then so am I.

At this point, I’m blaming not just him but also his handlers and the people who clearly handpicked him as their Heir Apparent. This man is a freshman Senator — haven’t his handlers been trying to prep him, take him under their wings, like always has to be done with noobs in the Senate? Even McCain has talked about the debt he owes the people who took him in and showed him the ropes when he was a noob. Has no one done this for Obama? He reminds me of the golden-boy quarterback of the football team in high school who was given As by all his teachers even when he could barely read — they didn’t do him any favors.

I’m convinced his handlers have been filling his head with garbage about how he doesn’t have to worry about that stuff since 2005, and he bought into it. He has been prepped and mentored horrifically badly. He started out as one of the most potentially promising newcomers to the political scene that anyone can recall, and he was propped up, coddled, and pushed ahead too fast. The whole thing is a disgrace. I can’t see how anyone could vote for him after that performance.

I know I’m spending a lot of time in this comment ripping on him, but damn it. Not only was his performance shoddy, but it hints at an almost inconceivable level of incompetance on the part ofh is handlers, people who are supposed to be the Dem party stalwarts and elder statesmen. Not only does he look bad now, but Kennedy, Kerry, Dodd, Leahy, Carter, Dean, Casey … WTF were these fools thinking?! No wonder the Dems have been so toothless for the last decades or more, Clinton excepted! These kleenex-brained idiots have been the party’s Grand Old Men!

Very refreshing, but certainly a long time coming.