As BHO and his team deliberate on his VP choices, it might be worthwhile to consider the story of Doktor Faustus.

In the late middle ages a folk story/urban legend emerged having to do with the life and deeds of a wandering university lecturer/magician named Faust. Among his exploits was the conjuring of the beautiful Helen of Troy in front of an astounded audience of students and scholars in an otherwise gloomy lecture hall. His powers were reportedly the result of him having sold his soul to Mephistopheles, Belzeebub, The Lord of the Flies, the Devil Himself.

Faust lived a life of unbounded success and pure pleasure, but as the night drew near when Satan was to claim his end of the bargain, a terrified Faust spent his last hours drinking with students, bewailing his fate, and warning them from the tempation of ever entering into a pact with the Devil.

At midnight the students were wakened out of their drunken stupor by the sound of screams, the tearing of flesh, smashing of bones, etc. And rushing out into the courtyard his friends found the corpse of Faustus, dismembered, his head severed and battered with the mouth agape, and with his heart ripped from his chest.

The story has had several modern reworkings, first by Marlowe, then by Goethe, and was also made into wonderful Opera (in French, of course). Unlike the traditional story, Goethe was able, by means of some philosophical gymnastics, to save Faust from damnation - but he put him thru plenty of other troubles.

The moral of the story though, is still worth considering today, and specifically by Barack and team.

"Yes," you might think, "Hillary just might guarantee the election." But, the story is a warning: "Is it worth the price? Is it worth your immortal soul? Do you want to burn in Hell forever?"

Think about it.