I'm trying. I really am.

I went out looking for a positive story about a Democrat, and found the good news about Kucinich. Maybe I should have quit while I was ahead, but I kept scrolling down the page, and there it was.

More Dean duplicity.

"Frustrated with Democratic presidential candidates who "pimp the church," the pastor of a black church in Portsmouth, N.H., has criticized those who would use his congregation as a backdrop for campaign photos rather than a serious discussion of issues."

Rev. Arthur Hilson's New Hope Baptist Church has been visited by several candidates, including Dick Gephardt, Carol Mosley Braun and Joe Lieberman, but the offending photo op cited by Rev. Hilson was Dr. Dean's.

"Hilson noted that a photo taken during a visit by front-runner Howard Dean appeared in an issue of Newsweek. The photo showed Dean standing beside Ms. Hilson, but the caption did not indicate the picture was taken in New Hampshire, and it was used in a story about Dean seeking the Southern African-American vote."

To be fair, the misuse of the photograph can be laid at least in part in Newsweek's lap, but apparently the photo itself was the product of a deliberate Dean set up.

"When the Dean people came they said, 'Can you be at the door and have your wife with you?'" Hilson said."

Some might think that every candidate treats church visits as pure PR, but it's just not so, as Hilson explained.

"Hilson said a visit by Carol Moseley Braun, in contrast, was not preceded by a request to have certain people on hand. "They simply came into the church and took seats," he said."