QUOTE OF THE DAY - AT 6:39 A.M. ET:  From Hugo Chavez, temporary proprietor of a Latin American country:

"With Obama we can talk, we are almost from the same generation, one can't deny that Obama is different (from Bush). He's intelligent, he has good intentions and we have to help him."

COMMENT:  The problem with the Obama White House is that they think praise like this is good news. 

One of the problems Obama will face this political season is the growing belief that he's far more leftist than he wanted us to know during the election campaign.  The in-the-tank media can try to minimize the damage by, say, ignoring things like the Van Jones scandal, but the truth has a strange way of blogging its way out.

September 8, 2009