I didn't expect the Swiftboating of Obama to begin on Salon. I am disappointed that such shallow analysis would be headlined here.

Richard Nostbakken

This is too much fun! I can say with authority that I am not black enough to comment ont he authors authority (although as someone from outside th USA I Googled her credentials in Google Images) Nor am I Jewish enough to comment on other credentials cited in one of the posts ... although I happen to be circumspect. I can say with some authority that Obama is Norwegian enough for me.

Richard Nøstbakken

Responses to this article are going through the roof. I think this is testimony to the great interest that Obama is generationg.

I would put the debate this way (appologies to Dan Quayle and the late Senator Bernsten):

Bentsen: Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator Obama, you are a Jack Kennedy.

This is a seriously stupid review. After all I watch David Letterman and larry king so I am properly informed ;-p

I was waiting to read that she was deflecting sniper fire with her clipboard as she ran to meet Martin Luther King. Were there witnesses to any of it? Why should we believe these stories any more?

I think Hillary has started to believe her ghost writers. Obama is actually a writer and even though his royalties were lower they were his own words. In fact I have been supportive of the Clintons for years when they needed defending I suppose. The bad news is that they have now become what offended them and me. I am old enough to remember 1968 at 20 or so so it is not a deep mystery. Hillary could do very well with the truth in her own words but she is unfortunately campaigning with bull crap from her advisors.

Today a Montana legislator (super delegate) endorsed Obama in spite of Clinton pleas simply saying "he reminds me why I am a Democrat" I am inclined to remember the Clintons fondly but dance ... it's been long and lonely winter ... it's alright I say doo bee dee doo here comes the sun!

calculation can be cool and calculus also but it is the nails on the chalkboard (this Clinton campaign) that creeps me out not to mention the optics of a minimum four years of finger wagging in stereo

What a nutty country. A president today openly admitted not only condoning but encouraging "harsh interrogations" AKA torture and high level meetings on the subject and the cable news is going nuts about Barak saying something thoughtful.

I am beginning to think that America and the press is really the beer hall in "Blues Brothers" throwing beer bottles at the wire mesh until the boys sing "stand by your man"

Rube is the circus call when jackasses are swarming the tent: "Hey Rube"

The circus is on of course but i don't understand the Rube reference in the articles and posts.

I would prefer if Obama and the bitter ones he properly mentions cry "hey Rube" to the Clinton

campaign. He has a bigger better tent.

I have been writing Lou Dobbs every day for his Obama bashing but there are of course no racists in America just thoughtful multi millionaire populists like Lou in white hoods who love black folks until they move in next door. Lou's recent career bashing America for the war on the middle class cannot seem to tolerate the word "bitter"when it comes from someone else and his xenephobia to latinos is somehow not elitist. Which half of Barak can he not stand?

I would love to see an interview where Barak gets to explain not being elitist but only if Lou can explain not being racist ... given his recent comments about both Barak and Michelle.

I can only speak as a Canadian and because I am afflicted with that politeness and to interfere would be my bad. But I am holding my breath for some political honesty on both sides of the border. We are the major trading partner and supply (news flash more of your oil and gas than the middle east) we have universal health care more strict labor and union laws than most of the world and we are still sued more than any other country by you and slandered as a NAFTA parasite. I really wish your pundits and candidates would do some research. Both my parents were born in America but I was not ... sort of puts me on equal footing with John whomever.

Given the choices available please understand the the lonely world is looking upon you ... do not give us a third term of a Bush AKA John or another Clinton soap opera. We are ready for some audacity and a return to the America we so love.

Barak has brought one persona to the campaign. Thoughtful, poised, committed and restrained.

Notice him at the AP meeting where he graciously let the Osama reference gaffe off the hook with humor?

He is unfortunately running against Sibyl who has found a voice 5 times and market tested at least 5 different personalities showing soft side funny side weepy side and serial killer. I was very much a Clinton defender when they were victims. Now they are on the dark side.

I am withholding some comments until the balanced views of Joan Walsh and maureen Dowd weigh in.

If the playing field were truly equal Barak would have be free to tell people where to park their hoods. He is asked daily to denounce people he barely knew including his own father who wrote some papers in Kenya after he left when Barak was 2 and some radicals of forty years ago but his white mother seems OK. But today the Pope is in town. If Barak was Catholic would he need to apologize for the Spanish Inquisition and 200 years of altar boys? I recommend Jeremiah Wright for Sainthood by comparison.