If Spector gets defeated in the democratic senate primary, it may go down as yet another example of Obama's toxic "help" in campaigns.

Needless to say, the White House is doing everything they can to aid this quisling. They've also sent in Joe Biden, which always presents the possibility that he will put not one but both feet in his own mouth.

As to trumpeting Obamacare, there's just one problem: most of the public hates it.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/march_2010/health_care_law

Tomorrow’s election in the UK is critical.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7683391/General-Election-2010-five-possible-result-scenarios-for-the-Conservatives.html

David Cameron (Conservative) was comfortably ahead of Gordon Brown (Labour) just months ago. And Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat) was far behind.

Then they had a US-style televised debate where Clegg charmed viewers, and now there’s a possibility, God help us, that he could win.

This could mean a radical change in the special relationship between the UK and America, with Clegg bowing and pandering Obama-style to Europe.

Clegg’s surge is IMHO a good reason not to have televised debates, which give an advantage to slick pretty-boys, and a disadvantage to anyone remotely cerebral.

We’ve been cursed with these sound-bite charades since 1960. Why Britain chose to introduce them after all these years is beyond me.

Earlier tonight, PBS aired a parade of British voters saying they weren’t “excited” about Brown’s appearances or “leadership.”

Since I regularly watch Prime Minister’s Question Time on C-Span, I wonder if I don’t have a better feel for Brown’s qualities than a lot of these UK voters.

(God knows US voters are criminally uninformed when they vote, and I’m sure the UK is working to catch up. With TV debates now a major factor, you can deduct another 20 points from the collective IQ.)

Brown is smart, albeit not as engaging as Tony Blair, and acquits himself well when being questioned on a bewildering array of subjects from his critics on the right and left.

True, so have previous prime ministers. Their system puts more emphasis on having political leaders who can think on their feet instead of making canned statements.

(In contrast to Obama, for example, always with a background of adoring listeners or other props, like “doctors” issued white coats before they’re allowed to sit in the Rose Garden and listen to him blather about health care.)

But the other factor is reported to be Gordon Brown’s comments after a voter encounter, where he forgot his mike was still on after he got in his car.

I heard the entire audio clip. What’s the worst thing he said? “That bigoted woman.” And for this he had to call on her and apologize!

So people are offended by that, compared to Crazy Joe Biden’s obscenity when he didn’t know his mike was on? Or pinhead Carl Levin producing a whole string of comments that had to be bleeped while he was grilling a witness at his House committee?

Naturally, I’d prefer to see Tory David Cameron win.

But for God’s sake, Brits, give Gordon Brown a break on this tempest-in-a-teapot.

You don't need a UK equivalent of John Edwards.

There are endless charges right-thinking Americans can make against Obama, including his unparalleled combination of arrogance and incompetence.

But one thing that makes us look stupid and paranoid is this continuing obsession with Obama’s alleged non-American citizenship.

Depending on which of the trumped-up emails you receive, he was born in Kenya or Indonesia or Mars.

Note that all this stuff appears only in endlessly-circulated emails. No legitimate right-wing media outlet talks about this.

But for the fanatics, any signature and seal on any presented birth certificate is contested, carbon-14 dating is demanded, subterfuge and bribery is alleged, ad nauseum.

These are the grassy-knoll conspiracists of the right wing.

There is no “cover-up.”

Nobody wants Obama out of office more than me, but only a fool will waste one moment of attention on this distraction instead of the main objections to the re-election of The Anointed One and his congressional cronies.

Yes, there’s no question the lamestream media is ignoring or downplaying all sorts of Obama flaws.

But journalists' greed for fame would trump this.

Ask yourself this: If there was the slightest scintilla of evidence supporting this conspiracy theory, wouldn’t the win-at-any-price Hillary campaign have jumped all over it?

That is what campaigns do through their “oppo research.” The Clintons’ ruthless staff already did that.

Yes, the mainstream media is overwhelmingly liberal, but Fox, the Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, and a host of other reliable anti-Obama conservative voices will jump on any remotely-credible lead in a heartbeat.

If you want to get technical:

Part of this baloney-fest is based on two things:

a) Ignorance of the law, specifically the legal concepts of jus sanguinis (right of blood) and jus soli (right of birthplace)

and

b) A willful attempt to conflate evidence about his birth certificate being faked, the ludicrousness of which, once examined, recalls Oliver Stone’s paranoid “JFK.”

These claims have been exhaustively debunked by UrbanLegends, Snopes.com, the Chicago Tribune, FactCheck, the US Immigration Service, Grolier Online, and Wikipedia, to name just a few authorities.

For proof, just read the following and their linked articles:

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama_citizen.htm

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/28/hawaii-declares-obama-birth-certificate-real/

Anyone who receives one of these silly emails should send this link to whoever sent it to you. Not that it’ll do much good.

A response to a California correspondent (who says she prefers Devore to Fiorina):