Just read the articles. They're amazing, especially read one after the other.

The articles identify the origin of the perceived "Wimp-O-Cratic Party" problem, which goes back centuries, to the four groups that originally populated the American colonies, and the distinctly different ways they looked at and handled conflict, and also the rather simple solution, which is one the Obama campaign will have to implement IMMEDIATELY if they are to avoid the losing fate of northeastern Democratic presidential candidates since FDR (Kennedy was Irish, which, as the article explains, is an exception).

Here are the articles:

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/200808...dont-shoot-back

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/200.../gop/index.html