'Zogby poll shows it's time for Obama to attack'

From Salon's War Room.

Still, I think there are two lessons to take away from the post-Democratic primary, pre-convention summer interregnum. One, Obama's intent to play high-road politics may be insufficient for the moment. We can all get high and mighty and decry negative politics and rough ads, but dirty politics often works. (About 75 percent of ads in 2004 by George W. Bush, a weak incumbent, were negative against John Kerry, who was afraid to criticize Bush at the Boston convention; Bush won.) And two, the more time Obama spends on defense the worse things will get for him.

Somebody needs to wake up David Axelrod. It is time for him to prove he is far closer to the Democrats' new Karl Rove than their next Bob Shrum. Because remember this, too, about 2004: Though by August of that year there were debates and conventions and such still to come, the agreed-upon, fatal turning point for Kerry happened that month. It's early, sure, but never too early for an Obama turnaround. So herewith a heavily signposted opinion derived from the foregoing obersvations: It is time for Obama to attack.