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Posted at 2:58pm on Apr. 28, 2008 Hard to Starboard! Steer a course for the shoals!

The Obama campaign attempts to avert looming disaster by charting a course from rough waters to perilous shoals

By Jeff Emanuel

Six months from the general election, BarackObama finally appears to be feeling the strain of the Presidential race. He has finally become the target of questions from some in the omnipotent American media, rather than simply of adulation. The Rezko and Ayers connections, the mentor-mentee relationship with the deeply racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his losing primaries in seven of the nine most populous states in the Union , the self-manufactured controversy over the flag pin, and the increasingly evident contradictions within his campaign -- such as the fact that Obama's Hope-Change-Unite rhetoric is firmly at odds with his highly partisan views, attitudes, and background -- have all contributed to his stress levels, and to his criticism-worthy performances, the combination of which has now snowballed into a problem which he sees as requiring macro changes within his campaign, rather than the smaller, less cumbersome minor-course-corrections he was able to implement throughout the past several months of the race.

Obama's Macro adjustments include several things, some of which were more predictable than others. Not content to merely back out of a pre-scheduled North Carolina debate, he is now refusing to square off with Hillary! at any venue or in any way, Saturday rejecting out-of-hand her offer of a moderator-free Lincoln-Douglass style debate (an offer that was renewed today, with Mrs. Clinton offering to meet Obama "on the back of a flatbed truck" -- a challenge from which he will shrink as certainly as he refused the weekend offer of a moderator-less engagement).

This is just the tip of the iceberg as far as Mr. Obama's campaign changes go, though. Read on.

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