Listen, it’s not as if there aren’t grounds for Barack Obama to be worried. None other than Mike Gravel submarines the troopergate silliness. His running mate is a boorish fool. And his electoral map is shriveling (the latest: a double digit lead for McCain in Montana which was once thought to be promising for Obama).
But the unhinged quality of both Obama and Biden since the appearance of Palin suggests either they believe things to be worse than they appear to the rest of us, or that they don’t handle bad news very well.