By David Mendell
Can a contest for the world's most important public office get any more uncertain than this? For all of his seriousness and sobriety, Barack Obama consistently seems to find himself playing the straight man in these unhinged political acts.
First, Sarah Palin and her hockey mom-with-lipstick sent the political contest hurtling into bizarro world, at least for a while. Then, the country's credit and mortgage crisis evolved into a full-blown threat to the nation's financial system, turning the economy into the overriding issue in the campaign. That led John McCain to cite the turmoil, declare that he was...
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