Barack Obama, once the darling can do no wrong presidential candidate of the media, seems to be on a slippery downward slope since his highly publicized foreign tour to the Mid East, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Europe.

"Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee," wrote Dana Milbank, a columnist for the Washington Post.

There has never been a political campaign like it. No Hollywood script writer could have presented such a story and retained any credibility, The 2008 American Presidential campaign has become not only bizarre but insane. Consider the following:

First a brash African American guy with a most un American sounding name, Barack Obama, defeats the Bill and Hillary Clinton long established political powerhouse in the Democratic primary.