In keeping with the myth-making propensities of the Obama campaign, former Pennsylvania Sen. Harris Wofford made an overwrought introduction of the candidate to the audience, claiming that Sen. Obama was already cast in the same mold of unique greatness as Washington and Lincoln. Putting aside such improbable silliness, Obama was in front of the cameras during his campaign swing in Philadelphia for damage control from the negative media coverage of his long-time pastor and “spiritual mentor,” Rev. Jeremiah Wright. For over a week, this bitter, clown holy man, was shown hectoring and working his flock into a lather on church-produced...