Five thoughts, One lesson.

[Moostache]

2. President Obama is NOT going to swing back...

I have watched his entire political career with great interest and I can definitely say he is NOT going to come out swinging in any debate. He will hit back in ads, through surrogates, in stump speeches and sound bytes, but if you are waiting for him to go in guns-blazing and fight, you'll be waiting a looooooooong time....

I thought he would have more fire in Illinois, but he never really needed it after the convention speech. He did not always get what he wanted, but he also had an easier time in Illinois than he would have in other states.

I thought he would really hammer Clinton in the primaries, and while they were ugly and tough, that race could have been far, far more nuclear if Obama had given the OK and fully taken off the gloves.

I thought he was actually losing the election to McCain and Palin by not defending himself enough or attacking Palin's pure idiocy with enough furor.

In nearly every case, he has remained the tortoise to every hare he has run against. He stays in the "No Drama Obama" persona so long that everyone is screaming to get out and fight and he has been successful with it to date.

It won't change over the next 5 weeks either...