I was watching the coverage of the Democratic convention yesterday and it was like watching a sports broadcast — with really inane commentators.

There was a ten minute segment where the commentators discussed what was “really going through Hillary’s Clinton’s mind.” Not what she was saying now, or what she had said in the past, or how she had acted in the past or anything that was remotely grounded in reality. In fact there was not a word about anything she had said or done. Just four people using their psychic mind-reading skills with extraordinary confidence to tell the network audience what she really thinks.

They then turned their discussion and their mind-reading skills on Obama.

Really, who the hell cares what these pundits might fantasize about what goes on inside other people’s heads?

P.S. I’m thinking of a number between one and ten …

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