On the “Today Show” this morning, Barack Obama — who is, judging from his own memoir and the speeches he seems to have written himself, one of the more literate men in Washington — made a grammatical blunder. When Meredith Vieira asked him whether he should have denounced Jeremiah Wright sooner, he said:  “I think the sequence of events was the right one, because this was somebody who had married Michele and I….”

That should have been “Michelle and me.” Not “Michelle and I.” It’s hard to believe Barack Obama, the man with the silver tongue and the two Ivy degrees, would make such a mistake. The fact that he did suggests the kind of strain he’s under and gives one the sense he knows he has gotten himself into some very serious trouble.