Fee Fi Faux

Never believe your own hype.

Is that what has happened to Obama?

Have the unending adulation of the press and the 70,000 pod rallies convinced him that he can do no wrong? That he can do anything and they'll follow along?

That raising more money than anyone else affirmed his greatness?

That running a dirty, yet effective, primary campaign would translate into a sure win in the general?

Has W's hubris been transfused into Obama?

He won't debate McCain in front of a military audience, even thought they've said they would work around his schedule. Somehow, no matter what the date, he's busy. He wants to be commander in chief but has no time to answer questions from a bunch of soldiers. Let him eat his waffle.

The money is drying up. When the pods accused us of being Republicans you have to wonder how much of the millions he raised to fight Clinton was from Republicans. We don't know because he won't release his records.

He should be up by 15 points. Instead his numbers keep dropping. Poor, poor Donna Brazille. She's shaking her head trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Sure, she told us that she didn't want us in the party, that we were not needed. She must be grinding her teeth at night freaked out about the Puma movement that she helped create.

Are his triple axles on FISA, Iraq, the death penalty, the second amendment, Israel, public financing timed to get them out of the way now? So that once the campaign is in full swing people will have "gotten over it"?

Even with our collective A.D.D. things sink in. For Bush it wasn't Katrina, it was getting on a plane in the middle of the night to sign legislation for Terry Schiavo that sunk him. I don't know if Obama can be sunk, but if he can it was the moment he sat behind his faux Presidential seal.

Because he is a faux candidate. Faux sure.