Will it be his own potentially self-defeating hubris? It could well be… The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank:
Barack Obama has long been his party’s presumptive nominee. Now he’s becoming its presumptuous nominee.
Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection, Obama settled down to some presidential-style business in Washington yesterday.
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WARNING TO OBAMA: If you read accounts of the 1948 Presidential election, President Thomas Dewey gave off a feeling that he had already won, too. (Oops! That should be just Thomas Dewey…who wound up coasting and helped make Harry Truman an appealing underdog..)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.