Reply #27: Here:

[Bread and Circus]

1.) Lack of Single Payer Health Care (as a physician, I can tell you Clinton, Edwards, and Obama are all just pandering on this issue).
2.) McClurkin (I cannot tolerate bigotry)
3.) Being less that 100% clear on Iraq War position (I know he was doing this to protect Kerry and Edwards)
4.) Not taking a more assertive and overt interest in women's issues (yes, he is 100% rated from pro choice groups but there needs to be more rhetoric to satisfy the challenge he faces vs a woman w/ built in female support).
5.) Though being very detailed on the issues in his policy statements, he needs to project the sense that he's a "policy wonk" (without the female thing and the "wonk" think, Hillary has nothing to go on). Basically, he needs to be inspirational but also come accross as the guy who knows the issues and the numbers, hands down.
6.) Not being a governor before running for President (as far as I'm concerned he might be the last chance for a multiracial/biracial candidate for a long time, he might have been better to sew up his bona fides for 8 more years but then again he knew this might be his last chance because if he weren't in Clinton may have ran away with it an then Clintons VP would be up in 8 years). It's a timing thing.

The best thing he can do right now is to get really specific and show his chops as a policy wonk and display some uber knowlege of foreign affairs. It's in his court.