DAVID WARREN, in his high priestly office as spitfire pundit for the Ottawa Citizen, assesses the entrails of the American election in its early phases here.

He also passes on the Mo-Do coined moniker (prophetically, we hate to admit) for now-frontrunner Barack Obama:

"OBAMBI"

I love it-- appealing, fluffy, naive, clueless, and frozen in the headlights of life-threatening world events.

Alas, no Republican Godzilla yet on the horizon to make short work of little deer.