Obama's deft touch

Steve Benen weighs in on the handwringing over the Obama campaign not hitting back hard enough over the various McCain misstatements and lies.

I talked to someone earlier this week who worked tangentially on some previous campaigns with David Axelrod, the Obama campaign's chief strategist. He told me, "Axelrod's not the type to drop a refrigerator on a guy's head. He'll take the refrigerator apart, drop one piece at a time, and save the biggest piece for last."

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But my advice to the party, at least with regards to Obama's strategy is simple: Relax, we've only seen the small parts of the refrigerator.

The rest of the post makes some good points.