Barack Obama scratches his head
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Can Obama take a hit as well as he delivers a speech?

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Is Barack Obama a wimp?

Forget about whether Barack Obama is prepared to answer a ringing phone at 3 a.m. Is he prepared to answer the attacks of Hillary Clinton at high noon?

Obama is capable of defending himself. Occasionally, he strikes back. But, according to Roger Simon of Politico.com, Obama "seems like the guy who brings a Nerf bat to a knife fight." In the past week, the senator from Illinois took issue with former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro's assertion that Obama's political success is due mostly to his race. Ferraro stepped down Wednesday from a voluntary post in the Clinton campaign, but refused to apologize.

Does Obama have the nerve to be president? By trying to stay above the fray, is Obama revealing a fatal weakness?

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Ben likes: Not an even match

Jennifer Rubin/Contentions

When Barack Obama advisor Samantha Power called Hillary Clinton a “monster,” Clinton called for her head and Power was gone. (Her departure may also have been related to her suggestion that Obama was not going to stick to any silly campaign promises about getting out of Iraq.) When Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro says that Obama would not be where he is if he were white, the Obama camp goes ballistic and Clinton brushes it off. In fact, her campaign manager goes to far as to suggest Obama is playing racial politics.

Is it any wonder that observers suspect Obama is a wimp, playing by some outmoded set of rules against the in-it-to-win-it Clintons?

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Joel likes: Redemption along the high road

Melissa Harris-Lacewell/The Root

Many Obama supporters are angry and desperately want Barack to fight back. Time to pick up the mud and get to slingin'! But Barack is asking us to do something different. He is asking us to trust that he is tough enough to absorb the blows and remain firmly planted on the political high road he is trying to blaze for the country.

We cannot abandon the high road just because it is rocky. We must peer even harder into our unknowable future to try to see a beloved community that is outlined there. Nobody promised us a crystal stair, but it is time to keep climbing.

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