It amazes me that so many make so much of so little.  Can you say “obsess”?  Nice try!

I think the Time’s appropriately named Swampland blog taps into the intense obsession rather well.   Imagine worrying over whether or not the slats of a bookshelf behind a 30-second TV ad were meant to represent a secret “floating cross”.  Or wondering if flashing the 1.5 second title of “Christian leader” is a backhanded swipe at another candidate.

When did political ads become a form of Rorschach Test?  Perhaps it’s been that way for a long time, but, really, it’s getting rather silly.

In politics, people think that everything that is said has a hidden purpose.  As Freud once remarked to a student who had asked him if the cigars he always had in his mouth were phallic symbols, “son, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”