Obama Supporters: Obama's Better. We Just Can't Tell You How.

While at the farmers' market this morning, I stopped by the Obama-for-president table and asked the two people who were staffing it: "Could you tell me what Obama has done for the country?" They couldn't come up with a single thing, though they apologized that they didn't have their crib sheets with them.

They did, however, challenge me to write down the things he had said he'd do and hasn't done. With no preparation and no access to the Internet, I listed a dozen, with "rescind the Patriot Act" at the top of my list.

I spoke with them for about 10 minutes, and the only reason they had for supporting Obama is that he's better than Michele Bachmann. I said, "So in other words, you're saying that he's the lesser of two evils?" They agreed. I told them that if you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you'll continue to vote in evil. They agreed, saying that's what American politics are. I said, "But that's not democracy."

The subject of Ron Paul came up. They liked his anti-interventionist, bring-the-troops-home, don't-militarily-mess-with-the-affairs-of-other-coutries, anti-Federal Reserve platform, but were afraid he'd get rid of Medicare and Social Security. I said, "Just wait. Obama will get rid of them too."