Obama Counterpunch

I agree with Joe Klein's response (and Jason Zengerle's) to Obama's line about Republicans taking pride in being ignorant: 

It seems to me that this gleeful counterpunch thrown by Barack Obama shows exactly the sort of facility that Al Gore and John Kerry lacked as candidates....and it gets right to the heart of the teenaged, testosterone-addled irresponsibility of the McCain campaign.

I acknowledge that the presidential campaign is not the same as the West Potomac High School lunchroom, but for every election I can remember Republicans have won when they painted the other guy as a dweeb (Gore, Kerry, Dukakis), and lost when they couldn't (Clinton). In the clip, Obama comes across as superior, but all politicians do, albeit in very different ways. What Obama isn't is nerdy, and that's an important difference.