Media: "Oh, my! What happened?"

• "The Republican convention was the most-watched convention on television ever, beating a standard set by the Democrats a week earlier" (Breitbart.com, September 5, 2008)
  
  
• "Palin now more popular than Obama or McCain" (Rasmussen Report, Sept. 5, 2008)
  
  
• "McCain up by 4%" (Zogby Polls, Zogby International, September 6, 2008)
  
  
• "Oprah balks at hosting Sarah Palin: Staff divided" (Drudge Report, Sept. 5, 2008)
  
  
• "[Democrats in a panic to counter Palin]: Obama to dispatch female surrogates, [including] Clinton" (International Herald Tribune, Sept. 5, 2008)

So much for the veil of illusion. Still, this is a democracy; democracies get the leaders they deserve; and given our current cultural climate and drift toward Sodom, Moloch and Lethe, my hunch is that this country will very likely elect Sen. Obama and that garrulous elder statesman who reminds me of a smarmy little Bull Dog -- or was it a Poodle?