Obama's the front-runner
A number of ways to come to this conclusion, but the simplest is to look at the editorial page of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, which has for two days in a row, used it's space to launch attacks against him. Yesterday, it was lambasting him for refusing to vote for telecom immunity, because after all, there's nothing more important to ensuring peaceful security for Americans than making certain that megacorp telecoms can't be held accountable for lawbreaking.
Today, it's about his statement about meeting with foreign leaders without preconditions. Matt Yglesias makes the appropriate point.
The essence of the argument is that if Obama thinks that face-to-face meetings with foreign leaders will single-handedly solve all of America's policy problems, then he's sorely mistaken. This is, of course, true but O'Hanlon can't be bothered to adduce any evidence that Obama does think this. After all, you'd have to be extraordinarily dumb to adopt the straw-man view that O'Hanlon's attacking here.
Of course, extraordinarily dumb straw-men and far-right blogs go hand-in-hand, so I assume we'll be seeing far more of this in the near future.
