You Can't Get Good Help These Days

The former CNN correspondent in El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, is running for president of that country. The election will be held March 15.

Funes is the candidate of the FMLN (Faribundo Marti National Liberation Front).

He's a communist. And he's favored to win.

Funes considers himself to be El Salvador's Barack Obama -- an agent of change in a country beset by the highest murder rate in Latin America and an economy in free fall.

The comparison is overt: Funes and the FMLN use images of Obama in their ads (despite objections by the U.S. State Department), saying both candidates were smeared by their opponents as allies of extremists. The FMLN television spots complete the link by employing the Obama slogan in English and Spanish, vowing "Yes, we can!"...

I'd be a little embarrassed were I the head of CNN.

But that's just me.