Obama's Worst Idea--Repeated

++President Obama has agreed again to participate in a candidate forum with Mitt Romney sponsored by Rev. Rick Warren at the Saddleback Church in California. Last time he did this was with John McCain and McCain was supposed to be in the "Cone of Silence" so he didn't know the questions. Warren stacked the audience with the social conservatives of his church and McCain used the code words for having been born again, although that wasn't true. McCain came away with a bump in the polls. This time Warren will pretend Mormons are Christian and ignore the fact that Obama is the only Christian in the race.


++Following this was the second worse idea of Obama's campaign--allowing Warren a spot to pray at his swearing in.


++Mr. President, please don't go. The event is scheduled for August.


++Meanwhile,the Intratrade index has Obama at his highest ranking for re-election since May. The Not Mitt Nominee index, created by a blogger, has it 45% that Mitt will not be the nominee. The Index was 10% when he finally won enough delegates for the nominee. 


++While polls have been mixed today,the real discussions have been about Romney's taxes and whether he took advantage of the tax amnesty by closing his Swiss Bank account. This lead to several articles seriously raising the question whether he really could be the nominee. Coupled with accusations about committing a felony on his SEC forms--the accusation that got Romney personally fired up--these speculations are less fanciful than mere fun election projections. 


++If Romney decided to bow out for any reason, some say his VP pick would be the logical nominee. In this case, the odds are on Tim Pawlenty, Lawrence O" Donnell's pick. Others say that the party would pick Jeb Bush. Strange stuff but observers have said that Romney has never released his tax returns, even when running for Governor and that his Bain colleagues claim he would never have run for President if he thought he had to. Strange?