She's playing matador, waving a cape he can't resist charging at. Obama can't catch her, but he feels compelled to try. That costs him valuable campaigning time, and weakens his appeal as a transcendent candidate for HopeChange. Obama seems focused, but he's really enraged and blinded by it. He's letting a very minor point derail his campaign, over sheer, petty stubbornness.
All the while, McCain is raking in cash, staying on target, and inching closer to victory. And looking steady, clever and presidential all the while.
(Biden, aside from harassing the handicapped in Missouri, appears to be no factor in this race at all.)
Our politics is an art of identifying the interest of one’s constituents and representing them appropriately to others to formulate a unified national policy.
Expressing the interests of a group of outraged women that they aren’t outraged is a sure bet to alienate that population. The only thing it accomplishes is to divide those who do not believe outrage exists from those who are outraged.
The Obama campaign doesn’t unify their politic, it divides at the expense of their opponent, with no true beneficial value to their proponents.
If it were a ballgame, the Obama Campaign would be poor sportsmen.