Seems like we're in for some rough and tough times during the upcoming presidential campaign.

Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama are very entertaining, if nothing else. To listen to them talk, you'd think one of them was a Republican and the other a far-out-on-the-limb-left-wing-liberal. It's getting hard to figure out just who not to vote for. I actually felt sorry for Mr. Edwards recently when he asked, "Are there candidates here?"

Now, the realm of the double-standard is being entered into by the candidates and the media that covers them.

If you remember, the media executed a major blitzkrieg on former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee early in his campaign because he openly and unashamedly announced his Christianity, noting that his Bible-based morals and principles would guide him if he were to be elected as the next President of the United States.

After his victory in Iowa, Mr. Huckabee was, literally, put through the ringer because of his open Christianity. He was sliced and diced and fed to the world as a conservative, Bible thumping, evangelical chasing ex-preacher who would rule the nation's government like a televangelist on a Rock Star fueled power trip if elected.

Now, Mr. Obama is running television ads and speaking to evangelicals across the nation in an attempt to debunk internet-based assertions that he is a practicing Muslim. In his ads he states that he is not now nor has he ever been a Muslim and that he and his family have attended the same Christian church -- here he places the emphasis on Christian -- for many years.

Let's see. He denies being a Muslim and claims, rather emphatically, to attend a Christian church. And what does our nation's media do with the news?

Nothing.

After the media firestorm over the preacher from Arkansas, why did no one make a big deal out of Obama's Christianity? Why did not one news anchor on either of the networks or cable news outlets raise their eyebrows, smirk at the camera, and make some invalid but degrading remark about Obama coming out strongly on the side of Christ?

Because that's not what Mr. Obama did. He did not come out strongly on the side of Christ. He did not imply that Biblical principles and Biblical morality would help guide him if he made it to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. As far as I can tell, he never actually claimed to be a Christian. He simply stated that he has attended the same Christian church for a number of years.

Anyone can attend church on a regular basis. Anyone can sit in a pew.

In the end, I guess you have to be Republican, Baptist, and from the south for your Christianity to become something to be feared at the polls.