Peggy Noonan has a must-read column in the WSJ today about Obama's falling popularity.  I know Noonan is brilliant, because she comes to the same conclusion I have come to: Obama is just too weird to be elected president of the US.  (She puts it far more artfully than I).

Obama supporters ignore this truth at their own peril.  Scot Lehigh at the Boston Globe-Democrat, for example, scoffed at the idea that Sen. Obama is, in any sense, a political "radical"--that is, far outside the mainstream of American political thinking.  Note that I'm not saying he's dangerous, a Communist or a nut.  But Sen. Obama is clearly a fringe candidate.

Barack Obama.

There wasn’t any question about what was happening. The abortions were going wrong. The babies weren’t cooperating. They wouldn’t die as planned. Or, as Illinois state senator Barack Obama so touchingly put it, there was “movement or some indication that, in fact, they’re not just coming out limp and dead.”

No, Senator. They wouldn’t go along with the program. They wouldn’t just come out limp and dead.  They were coming out alive.

Born alive. Babies. Vulnerable human beings Obama, in his detached pomposity, might otherwise include among “the least of my brothers.” But of course, an abortion extremist can’t very well be invoking Saint Matthew, can he? So, for Obama, the shunning of these least of our brothers and sisters — millions of them — is somehow not among America’s greatest moral failings.

No. In Obama’s hardball, hard-Left world, these least become “that fetus, or child — however you want to describe it.”

Read the rest of Andy McCarthy's excellent article to get the whole story.  What we know beyond dispute is that Obama voted against the very same bill with the very same language that even loony-tunes Barbara Boxer supported.  It's not just a "pro-life vs. pro-choice" vote.  It's a "Of course you save the baby" vs. "What are you, some kind of sicko?" vote.

Worst of all, I have no reason to believe that Barack Obama actually supports his own vote.  I bet he really does believe that doctors should be required to try to save the life of an abortion-surviving child.  But Obama is so utterly political, so desperate to hold the pro-choice political bloc, that he's willing to publicly support infanticide for the sake of something as relative insignificant as politics.  How else to explain why a "courageous leader" like Obama who cast 130 votes of "present" (I'm here but too chicken-snot to take a stand) took to the floor of the Illinois legislature to attack a bill that was so overwhelmingly popular?

If Obama were a principled supporter of infanticide out of some mistaken vision of abortion rights, I would be disturbed by his thinking.  But to support the killing of crying infants in a doctor's arms just for votes?  That's truly reprehensible.