gergen argues that obama needs to work on economic and security matters. welll, i'm sure obama's doing that too.
obama can't take a break. besides if he keeps going, he'll easily stay ahead of john mccain and the republicans (the lame ones) who are working on their scary emails right now:
cnn: On strict debating points, they seemed to be pretty close to a draw. But the recent spate of bad economic news — from rising unemployment to rising gas prices to rising interest rates in Europe — will almost certainly help Obama. Perhaps that is one reason why he has been edging up in the polls against McCain in the past few days: a week ago, an average of the polls (as reported by RealClearPolitics.com), was 1.4 percent; now it is 4.3. Not a huge jump but enough to take notice.
Even so, there is a growing question of whether Obama should keep on campaigning in the way he is. I was surprised when I learned that he was hitting the road for two weeks to advance his economic views in key states. He was smart in one fundamental sense: he needed to seize the initiative from McCain and he needed to frame the national campaign more fully around the economy and less about Iraq. Both will strengthen him. But does he really need to have two straight weeks of more campaigning?
For one thing, voters almost certainly need a break from the relentless and long primary season. Equally important, Obama and his team need a physical break. And I have a distinct sense that he also needs to take a break intellectually so that he can spend some quiet time assembling and talking with heavy hitters on economic and national security matters.
