If Obama does not lose, he needs to find his humility and his humanity

IT will be interesting, after tomorrow’s US Presidential debate, to watch the credit-takers lining up behind the winner.

The credit-takers are those who, after any election, write or cause to have written, books, blogs and theses crediting their contribution or singular insight as pivotal to their candidate winning the election.

Four years ago, the credit-takers were techies. Never mind Obama’s pretty obvious unique selling propositions. Never mind that the American voter was looking over a George W Bush created abyss and not liking what they couldn’t see at the bottom of it. Never mind that the brave old man on the other side was demonstrably and across a number of fronts clearly not at the races, even before he lumbered himself with a bespectacled fruit bat as running mate. Nope. What mattered was the electronic messaging, according to the credit-takers, last time around.