Here's Why Obama's Strategy This Week Was Spot On....

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Obama absolutely knows what he was doing this week. What is the story of the week?

McCain went viciously negative. He attacked and attacked and attacked. Three ads all aimed at cheap slime.

And what did Obama do this week? He turned the other cheek.

Now, I'm sure half of you are screaming "That's what Democrats always do and they lose because of it!"

But here's why this race is different.

1) Obama is a black man. If he is seen as overly aggressive or sleazy or cheap, he's got a problem because it will be used against him.

2) John McCain is an old man. Who is a war vet. Who was a POW. Who has survived cancer.

Re-read that last part. The country has had HUGE sympathy for John McCain.

Do you think the Obama team realizes this? OF COURSE! That's why they've spent months constantly complimenting McCain. Because they want to subconsciously show the world just how reasonable Obama has been.

So again, what's the story we're seeing now?

McCain has tarnished his own image.

McCain lied about running a high road campaign.

McCain is putting out cheap, sleazy ads beneath the conversation we need to be having.

And Obama has shook his head and laughed it off.

Obama stockpiled good will this week.

And now, Obama has a FREE PASS TO KICK MCCAIN'S ASS. Obama has a free pass to put out ads showing McCain's mental lapses, his flip-flopping, Keating Five, etc. He will put out these ads when they will have the MOST impact.

And it's already deep in people's minds that McCain started this dirty fight, not Obama. It's been documented all week that McCain went "there" first.

Obama NEEDED to turn the other cheek this week. He may need to turn it a second time.

But remember that NYT's article and the Nation article about what kind of politician Obama can be?

Big picture, folks. Obama will take a few lumps in July because he can afford to.

But make no mistake, Obama will absolutely kick McCain's feeble ass to the curb this fall.

And now, he'll have most of the country saying "Yep and John McCain deserved it."