Concerning Obama’s snake oil charm: Probably my best friend in the whole world admitted to me recently that he was really thrown off his horse when the news came out that John Edwards had fathered a child out of wedlock while his wife was slowly dying. He said that he had never ever felt like a presidential candidate was “the real deal” any more than he did with John Edwards. I had to bite the lining off of my tongue in order not to lose his friendship. This a 48 year old man with a masters degree and the CEO of a small business. And he got snookered by John Edwards? Evidently intelligent and educated does not mean we have a working BS detector. 52% of the population can’t be wrong, can they? Yeah, I think they were, and are, and probably will be.