Barack Jumps the Shark?

Has Barack Obama's campaign for president jumped the shark? Since the Dem debate, Hillary has widened her lead in the polls, Barack has made a glaring gaffe (10,000? Make that 12 statewide. Has he ever been to Kansas? Isn't that where his mom's from?). Now a Boston columnist weighs in:

Meet Barack Obama, the BradleyDeanBabbittTsongas of the 2008 election cycle.

I can't recapitulate in just a few words the outpourings of numerous magazine covers, network television features , and acres of cuddly op-ed commentary. In their current revue, Chicago's Second City comedy troupe lampoons Obama-mania: "Barack is accessible," one actor explains to a fictional Hillary Clinton. "You want to talk to him, you want to hang out with him. You want him to lie on top of you and sing you a lullaby."

Yuck.

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UPDATE: Powerline on tornadoes. Yeah, we have them in Chicago, but further south than where Obama lives. I grew up in a little town. Tornadoes. Every summer a possibility. But usually skipped over.