[TonyR]

Originally Posted by Kid A

Sullivan is a great read, and the debate swing has been huge, but he has been a little hysteric about it...

Yep, he's often hysterical. But sometimes he catches himself as in the below:

Of course, I'm excitable. This is a bounce for Romney and will presumably subside a bit. Perhaps by the next debate, the president will have a clue what he wants to do for the country and the world - and be able to communicate it. But I'm also angry. If Axelrod couldn't see the Etch-A-Sketch coming, when Romney's campaign all but told us they were cynical enough to do and say anything to win, then he truly is incompetent.

The only solace is that Obama is best when up against it. I remember how he just threw away the primary race in New Hampshire, rather than fighting. I recall how he allowed Obamacare to languish in the Congress for months, almost lost it with Scott Brown's election, and finally brought it home. I remember how he let DADT drift for months, only to pull it from the fire in the nick of time in a lame-duck Congress. He does this. He works your last nerves. But I have never seen him phone it in as weakly as he did last week, and I can see no strategy behind it.

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast....implosion.html