It's Just Too Easy

Ridiculing Bernard-Henri Levy is usually more Michael’s hobby, but I’ll take a crack at it.  Citing reasons why Obama is likely to win, he had this howler in his new article:

In Florida, another swing state, he [Obama] is already campaigning against the prospect of offshore oil drilling, which has been imprudently supported by his rival.

Perhaps BHL is unaware of this, but a majority of likely Floridian voters supportsoffshore oil drilling and, perhaps not entirely coincidentally, McCain leads fairly comfortably there.  There are many other things he seems to be unaware of as he delves into American presidential politics.  He writes breathlessly:

Not to mention the setting up of a special committee (partly presided over, if you please, by Caroline Kennedy!) to help choose Obama’s future vice president. Will it be the former governor of New Mexico [bold mine-DL]? Governor Strickland, in a nod to blue-collar voters?

Bruce King has made Obama’s VP short-list, and no one told me?!  Ahem.  Bill Richardon is, alas, still the governor of New Mexico and, for our sins, will continue to be until early 2011.  As most people following the election closely in this country know, Strickland very clearly took himself out of the running.  Obama should hope that BHL is no more accurate when he describes Obama as a “meteor,” since these are things that burn up in the atmosphere or crash to earth.