Anyone who has been in politics for any length of time has been involved in a campaign which, for no good reason, suddenly goes bad.

If you don't believe me; ask Sen. Barack H. (!) Obama.

For the first 15 months of this Presidential primary season, Obama could do nothing wrong. If Ronald Reagan was Teflon because nothing stuck to him, then Obama has been Teflon sprayed with Pam then coated with butter.

Then, in late February the New York Times (and others) reported that Obama's senior economic policy adviser had told a Canadian official that the strong anti-NAFTA position Obama had been espousing in the run-up to the Ohio primary on March 4th was "more reflective of political maneuvering than policy."

The first reaction of the Obama campaign had been to deny the meeting had ever taken place (which was a lie) and they've been back on their heels ever since.

About a week after the NAFTA flap, came another Obama senior advisor, Samantha Power, telling The Scotland newspaper in an interview that Sen. Hillary R. (!) Clinton was "a monster."

"She is a monster too - that is off the record - she is stooping to anything."

So, now we're into the second week of March 2008 and two senior aides have had to quit over rookie mistakes in two weeks.

Then Obama's Church, which he had assured us had been his home-away-from home nearly every Sunday for 20 years, released DVDs of Jeremiah Wright's greatest hits which you've seen on every possible medium over the past two weeks.

This went on for an entire week before Obama's speech last Tuesday which, for 24 hours, appeared to have changed the discussion from Wright to Race.

After the Intelligencia Politica had 24 hours to proclaim The Speech to have ranked just slightly south of the Sermon on the Mount, the public discussion went all the way back to the question of how Obama could have been a loud, proud member of a church whose pastor was spewing anti-American rhetoric with some regularity from the pulpit.

Twelve days after the story broke, it was still was a central topic on the Sunday shows yesterday morning. Continued...