You’ve heard the old saying that no one worries about polls unless there’s something in it for them?

Well, Barack Obama’s camp seems very worried now that the momentum has swung in John McCain’s direction due to a favorable bump in polls following the Republican convention:

“There’s a lot of hyperventilating about national polls,” [Obama campaign manager, David] Plouffe said, which wasn’t a surprise since both a CBS News poll and the Gallup daily tracking poll showed McCain taking the lead nationally in the presidential race. “When you look at battleground states, we feel very good about where we are.”

But Obama might not feel the same way. In an interview with MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, Obama looked nervous, hesitant and unsure of himself. He uttered the guttural sound “uh” repeatedly, which is annoying and distracting (I counted 24 ‘uh’s in less than a minute).

Maybe Obama should let Michelle do his interviews since she seems more sure of herself. If only Michelle were born a man, she would be our first black president.