Monday, April 14, 2008

Obama in the Spotlight

Michelle makes the cover of National Review and Hillary is Annie Oakley?

WSJ notes The Other Obama:
There's also the Barack Obama who attended Rev. Jeremiah Wright's ("God d--- America") church for 20 years, the one who emerged from the Chicago Democratic machine with friends like Tony Rezko, the one with the most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate, and now we learn the one with a Harvard-eye view of American angst.
US News tracking the trial. Barack hits back at Hillary at the CNN Compassion Forum. The Swamp:

"Shame on her. Shame on her. She knows better," Obama told an audience at a union hall in Steelton, Pa., before he and Clinton appeared separately at the Compassion Forum.

"She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the 2nd Amendment. She's talking like she is Annie Oakley," Obama continued, referring to the storied female sharpshooter of the Old West.

Hey, anything you can do I can do better sang Annie. Though maybe he can sing sweeter.

P.S. This is funny, from Lefties:

And for people who don't see the same possibility in Barack Obama, the intensity of that longing, especially when expressed by men, can sound downright suspect.

Maggie Merrill, a 31-year-old graduate student in urban studies at the University of New Orleans who works part time at New Orleans City Hall, is a Clinton supporter who told me that she will happily vote for Obama in the general election. But, she said, "There is this Obama-mania, where these young men get glassy eyes and start spitting out vague things about how Barack Obama is going to save humanity. Really, have you seen their eyes? It's this faraway look. It's scary."

I have seen that look and wondered if, in the minds of some of his adherents, the thing Barack Obama might be saving humanity from is Hillary Clinton.

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