Carville’s Severe Criticism of Convention Irks Obama Camp

Nick Timiraos reports on the convention spin from Kansas City, Mo. Barack Obama ’s supporters can’t be happy with James Carville , President Bill Clinton ’s 1992 campaign manager, who offered a bruising analysis of the first night of the Democratic convention: “ Well, if this party has a message it has done a hell of a job of hiding it tonight I promise you that,” Carville said on CNN Monday night. “Right now like I say we are playing hide the message pretty good.” “There’s no message coming out of here, there is no sense that the party has a sense of urgency. And we’ve only got four nights this is 25% of the whole thing,” he added. Obama strategist Robert Gibbs pooh-poohed such talk Tuesday morning. “What we set out to do last night I think was accomplished in a very, very big way,” he said, pointing to Michelle Obama ’s well-received speech that touted Obama’s biography and her own. Gibbs promised that the remaining three nights of the convention would ... (link)