I was at the Obama-Kennedy rally at American University earlier today. Now I’m plowing through some of the media coverage of that event, and the only way it could be more fawning is if it were bylined by Bambi. I came across this ludicrous Reuters report which was ridiculous front to back, but the piece de resistance was this bit near the end where the reporter seems to be going out of his way to find things to praise Obama for:

But he also made sure to ask for the votes of those in the crowd — an unusual event for a national politician in the capital city, which has no representation in Congress and rarely plays a crucial role in presidential races.

A) Obama’s not running for Congress, so why is DC’s lack of congressional representation relevant? B) As noted repeatedly in the article, the event was at a college — attended mostly by students who are from out of state and will likely vote at home. C) DC does have delegates at stake for the Democratic convention — and Obama kind of needs those last I checked. But errors of logic aside, this all boils down to Obama appeared at a campaign rally and asked for the vote of those in attendance. Clearly Obama generously deigning to ask for votes of even the irrelevant, insignificant DC denizens deserves highlighting! Candidates who normally appear in DC usually tell the assembled their votes are useless and then wave their upraised middle fingers at the crowd.