Being called "The Dumbest Man in Texas" is kind of like being called the wettest guy in the pool.

But still, here's what Mark Davis, WBAP radio host and Dallas Morning News columnist wrote, after a week in which Senator Obama won his tenth straight primary election:

"As the Barack Obama Traveling Hope and Change Show pulls into Reunion Arena today, his campaign has to be looking for a change in the wind.

Hillary Clinton's prospects for winning our state March 4 are alive and well, partly because Texas Democrat politics and demographics favor her, and partly because Mr. Obama is having what professional observers call "a really bad week.""

So what made it a "really bad week?" (btw- since when did the shrill voices in Mark Davis's own head count as "professional observers?):

"First came the harmless but odd YouTube montages of peculiar fainting spells at his campaign events, with the candidate repeatedly offering water and presumptuous claims that the fainter "will be all right."

Guess they take their YouTube montages very seriously down in Texas - in sharp contrast to their distaste for libraries and anything too "high-fallutin'".

" Then came the sheepish admission of his theft of inspiring rhetoric from Deval Patrick's 2006 campaign for Massachusetts governor. Again, not a big deal, but an embarrassment an heir apparent to his party's presidential nomination does not need."

Senator Obama did not sheepishly admit to theft.  Deval Patrick works for the Obama campaign and gave the Senator the lines.  Obama admitted that he should have given credit (not that this would placate Davis, who couldn't tell his ibid from his op. cit., and who is known to parrot Rush Limbaugh - though without all the three syllable words that confuse Texans).

"The topper came as Mr. Obama's wife delivered the shocking insult that nothing in the last 25 years had made her proud of America."

Fine.  If this election is going to turn on spousal gaffes the Obama camp is in great shape as long as a certain former president keeps breaking his shackles to launch frothing tirades.