Unembedding the Victim Hood

Air America's editorial or smoke and mirrors misses(scratch that) covers Un Herd of Change, which I just updated and unembed Ourfuture.org which had two reports highlighting the changes;

CNN and MyDD report 14 to 20 point leaps in approval(Obama on health care reform) respectively. Now is that unprecedented change?

The Victim Hood: Palin on rescuing the media, is now joined by Rep. Joe Wilson. Turn the other cheek becomes pass the other buck.

Un Herd of Change

The Heard not the herd.
The unheard-of change.*
Mobilizing progressives and un-precedented change?

The president walked a line that is hard to parse but the two perspectives above might metric it. Inspiring the left and moving the moderates, I don't know if there is a precedence for a 14 to 20 per cent change in polls overnight. Of course there is precedence for news to leap on hypotheticals or rhetoricals anyway. The line was not exactly a leash but in line with our dog metaphor, the feat before us, and should tug at the character of our wagging or blue dogs. This is not our father's hush puppy or soul food.

[lines drawn]

[* Update 9-11-09: Unembedding the Victim Hood pulls the polls (CNN and MyDD) from the herd.]