After reading that headline, you’re probably wondering: “Steve who? I don’t remember a Presidential candidate named Steve.”

Rest easy.  You’re not losing your mind.  At least, not for this reason.

Steve’s not a candidate, but he is an exceptionally good blogger — viz., Steve Clemons at The Washington Note — who managed yesterday (like we all do sometimes) to “step in it” when he defended Barack and took an uncharacteristically weak jab at Hillary for their respective foreign-policy answers to one of the CNN/YouTube debate questions (and Hillary’s later defense of the same).  This morning, after some uproar, Steve backtracked … slightly.

At Central Sanity,  I’ve offered my take on Steve’s first and second posts.  (In short, if you don’t want to click over, I dissed the first one and thought he was more constructive on the second.)

Now, if you care to share, I’d be interested in your opinions on this topic, because I think it is a critically important one in the overall scheme of evaluating the slate of U.S. Presidential candidates.  As I wrote in my CS post:

… we need an adult running the country, not some over-anxious kid so desperate for bullies to like him that he’s willing to go out of his way to sit at their lunch table before he first considers the big picture and takes appropriate steps to protect himself and his friends.

And yes, by “over-anxious kid” I might have very well been referring to Senator Obama.