Earlier today I tweeted the following:

blogdiva: DUDE! Deeds hurt Deeds. The moron ran as ANTI-Obama! RT @DavidAll: RT @POStqia: Shhh —Don’t Tell Anyone, But Obama Hurt Deeds in Virginia (24 minutes ago from TwitterGadget)

It was a quick quip about how I don't believe Obama hurts Democrats in the way Republicans want everybody to believe. I threw that out there and Michael Turk hit back with the following:

	Name: Michael Turk Location: Wherever it's 5 o'clock Description: He's just this guy, y'know? Cooler than most, less cool than some. URL: www.kungfuquip.com Followers: 2662 MichaelTurk: @blogdiva This was the Deeds campaign's GOTV mailer, it barely has his name n it: http://is.gd/4RQsH (10 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to blogdiva)@blogdiva This was the Deeds campaign's GOTV mailer, it barely has his name n it: http://is.gd/4RQsH
	Name: Michael Turk Location: Wherever it's 5 o'clock Description: He's just this guy, y'know? Cooler than most, less cool than some. URL: www.kungfuquip.com Followers: 2662 MichaelTurk: @blogdiva This notion that he tried to distance himself from Obama is bullshit. (21 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to blogdiva)@blogdiva This notion that he tried to distance himself from Obama is bullshit.
	Name: Michael Turk Location: Wherever it's 5 o'clock Description: He's just this guy, y'know? Cooler than most, less cool than some. URL: www.kungfuquip.com Followers: 2662 MichaelTurk: @blogdiva You are smoking crack! Deeds tethered his entire campaign to Obama. I know, I sat through the commercials. (21 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to blogdiva)

I was going to twitter back a response but I think it merits a quick blog post with a WHAT IF: What if the problem with Obama is NOT that he is a bad politician or a so-so President? What if the problem with Obama is that he won because he sold himself as a third-party candidate? What if the problem with Obama is that he won't be able to be a truly outstanding President unless he stops playing by the Democrats rules? What if the Democratic Party and anybody who has been a willing player can't win with the "Obama Change" formula because they are the "more of the same" that needs to be wiped clean for real change to happen?

This is what I think did Thompson in during his campaigning in New York City. He wasn't perceived as "Change you can believe in". Sure he was different enough from the widely disliked Bloomberg to squeak in a narrow loss. Had Thompson truly been able to paint himself as a real outsider (something he certainly is not), he would probably had piqued people's interest and gotten the much-needed attention of the press and bloggers.

So I dont think that "Obama The Campaign" or even "Obama The President" are the kind of bad GOPers are trying to sell it. Yet both Obamas are dangerous to the Democratic Party and, in the end, to the Obama administration in general.

In other words: The Democratic Party is the biggest obstacle between Obama and Change.

Obama and the ever elusive Change haven't come together. The twain shall never meet unless he goes back to being the stealth 3rd Party candidate that won the elections. The only way to do that is by giving up on the Democratic Party.

And that, my friends ain't gonna happen in this climate of zero bi-partisanship.