Obama's shrinking...resume

Fresh from his Beverly Hills fundraiser while the market was melting down, Barack Obama remembers he was once a short-term, sometime present Senator in Illinois and gives his machine kingpin buddy Emil Jones a call. Sun Times:

"Senator Obama called Senator Jones today to offer his strong support for the ethics reforms pending before the Senate and urged him to pass them at the earliest possible opportunity," Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said.

The move marked a shift from last week, when Obama’s campaign ducked questions from the Chicago Sun-Times about whether Obama should intervene to save the ethics bill. Good-government activists and some elected officials reacted by publicly asking Obama to intercede with Jones.

Yup, his very bid for the presidency may be on the line, as this bill is "among his major accomplishments". Except..it's still not law. And he hasn't been in the Illinois Senate for 4 years. The resume is shrinking again.

P.S. What's with the teleprompter at the rodeo thing? Meanwhile, Sarah Palin takes on a town meeting in Michigan.