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'Underwhelming' Nominee

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By ROBERT NOVAK

The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 11, 2008

He is not alone. After the closed-door session in the Mayflower Hotel's ballroom, Gus was among 20 participants who gathered for drinks to talk it over. They agreed it was not an "exciting performance." Obama was "low-key" in a perfunctory appeal to them.

None of these loyal Democrats talked about sitting out the 2008 presidential election against John McCain or locking up their bank accounts. Since a donation does not indicate the benefactor's degree of enthusiasm, what difference does it make? Only that it signals a lack of confidence by important Democrats for a candidate whose charisma is supposed to cancel out his inexperience.

Robert Novak's column is distributed by Creators Syndicate Inc.

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