I'm Sorry, So Sorry

Both Democratic campaigns need to understand that the constant apologizing and groveling just play into a general sense of Democrats as weak. Progressives and commentators need to understand that constantly calling on people to apologize and grovel has the exact same effect. This campaign has become this ritualized Japanese seppuku, where people must commit hari kari to save face. It's bizarre, and it's being fed by the media.

I'm not saying that you should necessarily act like a Republican and be defiant in the face of a surrogate saying something stupid; the best practice is for surrogates not to say anything stupid at all. But there's a residual effect to all this denouncing and rejecting and repudiating and ejecting and trouncing and bouncing and flouncing.

UPDATE: To be clear, I thought Obama's response to the Rev. Wright thing was pretty good; I'm reacting to the fact that we've all become junior high school kids that get hurt by words.