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11:18 PM, Jul 30, 2008 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

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ABC News has video of Barack Obama telling voters in Missouri today:

Nobody really thinks that, that, that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know he--oh, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all of those other presidents on those dollar bills.

I'm sure the Washington Post is hard at work on a front-page story debunking this scurrilous and unfounded accusation.

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