Sunday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.

Today, Barack and Michelle Obama will be in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio campaigning for Governor Ted Strickland and raising money for the DNC. Ohio is a really tough state (again) this year. Strickland is trailing his GOP opponent, John Kasich (a former Lehman Bros. exec.) and Senate candidate Lee Fisher is behind his GOP opponent Rob Portman (a Bush admin. official.) Seriously Ohio? Lehman and Bush helped ruin your economy and you're going to reward them. Wow.

The Veep is in Allentown raising money for congressional candidate John Callahan.

The Sunday shows have a heavy dose of politics. For some reason, despite all the very competitive races, "This Week" has another nationally televised debate between Chris Coons and Christine O'Donnell. Then again, the other guest is Maria Shriver. "Meet the Press" is hosting a debate between Colorado Senate candidates Ken Buck and Michael Bennet. This one is really close, although a couple recent polls have shown Bennet with a lead. Robert Gibbs is the other guest on "Meet." So, we may be treated to more garbled and incoherent answers about the President's views on DADT. In a promo, David Gregory just said Gibbs would also tell us how the White House will respond if GOPers make big gains on Election Day. (How about not addressing that til it happens, Robert?)

Howard Dean and Liz Cheney are on "Face the Nation." And, the main guest on CNN's "State of the Union" is David Axelrod. So, that will be another chance to confuse us about Obama's plans on DADT.

It's going to be almost all politics, all the time for the next two weeks. But, there is a hearing tomorrow at 2:30 PM PT on the Obama administration's request for a stay in the Log Cabin Republican's DADT case.