Per Robert Parry:

Now, as Sen. Obama seeks to portray himself as a new kind of post-partisan politician, he seems to be buying into those old comfortable happy thoughts about Ronald Reagan. To the delight of right-wingers like Patrick Buchanan, Obama is paying deference to their hero.

While that might help Obama politically with some independents and Republicans, it doesn’t exactly define him as a new kind of politician....

If Obama really wanted to be a different kind of politician, he might instead stand for the truth, even when it is politically difficult and unpopular. He might acknowledge that while Reagan did put the United States on a “fundamentally different path,” it was not a path that led to either accountability or to justice.

Clinton

210

Obama

123

Edwards

52

Kucinich

1

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This count consists of the delegates won in caucuses/primaries completed thus far and "pledged" delegates.

...in Iowa. She talked about how it was a good day for the country. A good day for Democrats. A good day for the future. A good day because of the large turnout. On the other hand, Obama in losing Nevada was terse, according to the New York Times:

Mr. Obama, in a terse statement, barely acknowledged his defeat. “We ran an honest, uplifting campaign in Nevada that focused on the real problems Americans are facing, a campaign that appealed to people’s hopes instead of their fears,” he said. “That’s the campaign we’ll take to South Carolina and across America in the weeks to come, and that’s how we will truly bring about the change this country is hungry for.”

So, it looks like Obama is saying that Nevadans (?) just didn't get it that his message was better than his opponents?

No, you are wrong. I don't hate Obama. I just don't buy into the "fairy tale" that he's a knight in shining armor who is going to change the country and we'll all live happily everafter.

I think Obama has some merit. He's better than the Republican candidates -- at least based on what we know about him.

So, please enough already with suggesting that I hate Obama. I don't. Not at all. He's just not my first choice for the DEM nomination.

BTW, why do you insist that just because I prefer another Democrat (who happens to be Edwards -- but that apparently is not going to happen) to Obama, that I hate Obama.

That is downright disgusting for you to think that.

it's becoming rapidly apparent, in reading the comments here, that Clinton's supporters seem to be more broad-minded (no pun intended) than those who *claim* to be Obama supporters.

I say "claim" to be Obama supporters because if I had a crystal ball, it would probably tell me that a lot of those who claim to be in the Obama camp, are not. They're just here to tell us ad nauseum that Hillary is not electable.

I couldn't view the video because the download was herky-jerky, so I have no basis to give an opinion on whether Obama was testy in this particular video.

However, based on other viewings of him, I will say he has definitely showed that he is very, very thin-skinned.

Obama is coming across as a world-class whiner.

if anyone calls him out on anything, he tends to be a bit tetchy.

Perhaps, if the media didn't faun all over him and continually treat him with kid gloves, he'd outgrow his overly-sensitive peevishness and become a role model for change.

If Bill and Hillary Clinton were able to pull off half the stuff people accuse them of doing, they'd be the King and Queen of the United States of America, ruling from their thrones.

Get real, people.

Joan, as you know your colleague Glenn Greenwald wrote about Obama's "Committed Christian" flier that his campaign has distributed to S.C. voters.

Obama, as you point out, is running an ad that claims that "Hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected."

Well, it seems to me that Obama "will say anything to get elected" if his flier is an indication of what he's willing to dstribute with his name on it.

As for me, I cannot separate the man from the campaign. His campaign has his imprimatur all over it.

Why does Obama get a pass on that campaign flier? It's scarely different than what Huckabee was pilloried for in the media and the blogosphere. Is it because Huckabee is a southern, right, white fundamentalist Republican and Obama is a black man, ostensibly making history, who is running as a Democrat?

Joe, there will always be people who will say you're full of it because you revealed the existence of the "Arkansas Project" and because you were one of the first journalists to dig into the finances, etc. of the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth." So, you have two strikes against you already.

As for me, I think you present the available information, factually, convincingly, and thoroughly. And, on those rare occasions, when I read something you've written that doesn't quite jibe with an article I've read previously, I do a little research -- and usually determine, that you were right.