I only heard it said twice thus I was only stunned twice. Two days ago Gloria Borgia of CNN, part of The Most Annoying Political Team on the Planet, said it was important to find out if Obama had “our values.” She said this with an emphasis on our and, as she looked to the other white team members for agreement, wore an expression of great concern. No one on the panel of white wise people demurred. Then last night on CSPAN following the convention, the historian Richard Norton Smith also used the expression “our values,” again underlining our in the context of whether Obama had them or not.

Would someone please explain how it is whites came to own these values? And---what exactly are they anyway? Are they the values of McCain whose reputation as a womanizer is well known and who dumped his ailing wife, mother of his children, for a young heiress? Or John Edwards, who—well--- he’s an easy shot but still what about his values? Anyway, he claims to have found them again. But then values have come and gone for FDR, the Kennedy brothers and Bill Clinton but, nevertheless, today they are greatly revered.

Wait a minute---I think I’ve got the answer. Obama is faithful to his wife! How wild is that? And he likes to spend time with his kids---no nanny in his household. Good grief what kind of a candidate is that?

I mean--clearly--he doesn't have our values.