You're right, but you're wasting your time on this crowd. They're more likely to think Obama is being treated unfairly. Look at the big outcry after the ABC debate. Obama had a cakewalk compared to what Hillary faced earlier at the MSNBC debate. But you wouldn't have known it around here.

But the reporting is skewed. Which means that our endangered democracy is disfunctioning on inadequate information.

This disfunctioning allows presumptuous presidential posturing from ill experienced candidates like George Bush junior who started appointing his presidential cabinet on his ranch in Texas in 2000 with the Florida vote unsettled and Obama now before us who is trying to focus our attention on HIS choice of a vice presidential running mate without having won the nomination and -- ironically -- not waiting for the Florida vote to be settled.

That's it: Obama's like a black verson of George Bush junior! And we all know how dangerous these little-boy role-plays can be. They can deceive an entire country! They can end in war! And all the "pacifist" puffed-up speeches will be -- to quote Obama plagiarizing Patrick -- "just words".

And if by some spell his rhetoric has cast on you, you don't recognize the immature, unseasoned figure in the candidate of your choice, I invite you to re-watch the "sweetie" episode...his little-boy fascination with the shiny sports car in the car factory in Detroit as he dismisses the reporter who only wants to know what this handsome elegant young man might do for all the blue collar factory workers, a question that he somehow doesn't get around to answering. The car was so shiny! Couldn't take his eyes off it! Do watch the clip again; body language doesn't lie.

Of course, I admit to being unduly "biased" by the fact that thousands of disgruntled French voters poured into the streets of all the major cities of France today. You see, they voted for this guy a year ago -- kinda like Obama -- snappy dresser, booming out these great lines, smiling in enjoyment of the sound of his own voice, the word "change" in every other sentence and on all the campaign posters. And he didn't come through.

To give credit where credit is due, Obama has made fewer concret campaign promises. So when it melts away to next to nothing next spring, he can always say -- unlike the French leader -- that he hadn't made this and that promise.

If it's any kind of consolation, the female candidate who lost, the one who had done all the auditing of people's voices, who had elaborated those voices into a concrete campaign platform, is now nailing the slick guy's tail every other day. And he has been forced to adopt bits and pieces of HER platform. It's taking longer and people have to wade through all his errors. But some things -- although fewer -- are getting done.