I'm not surprised that Obama is getting most of the black vote. JFK got most of the Irish Catholic vote in 1960. Aside from this qualities as a candidate, there's an overwhelming sense of pride in having one of "ours" in the race. I think by and large, the black crossover was largely predictable, as soon as he took Iowa.

I am disgusted with the race-baiting that has happened to the Clintons, largely from the liberal supporters and campaign officials of Obama, though David Plouffe did manufacture the scandal of the Kenyan clothes, which had been circulating on Free Republic, the right-wing site, and he chose to take Drudge's word that "the Clintons gave him this." That's a Rove-sized lie. These incidents were manufactured in the same way that Gore's "inventing the internet" was constructed. They said about him that "he'd do anything to get elected," and that he didn't know who he was sexually, because he hired Namoi Wolf to "tell him to wear earth tones." Significant portions of the media have decided to lie about the Clintons. They lied about Gore, and they got away with that. The Clintons have been lied about by the "liberal elite," and the thing about lies is, they come back to hurt you, especially in a campaign that has claimed to be so high-minded. It looks to me like liberals looked at the Right Wing Noise Machine, and all we've managed to do is construct one of our own.

I've really looked for any opportunity to join the Obama campaign, since it seems eventually I'll have to anyway, and Hillary's endorsement of the "gas tax holiday" is the most shameless embrace of a right-wing meme since-- well, since the last Obama speech. But this "expose," the entire Huffington Post except for the wonderful Chris Kelly, and the continual stream of so-called outrages, especially the constructed horrors of "race", really turns me off the enterprise. What we get out of the Obama supporters, and sometimes through his campaign, is nothing but the left-wing version of the politics of personal destruction. Face it, Obama was going nowhere until his supporters unleashed their inner Ken Starrs. They have been the ones to unleash the sexualized Chris-Matthews image of the old Hillary, the controlling b-word who PLANS EVERY MOVE, so therefore anything bad that happens to Obama is her fault. Hmm. If she PLANS EVERY MOVE, DOWN TO HER "SO-CALLED TEARS,' why is she down in the polls? Why doesn't she have friends in MySpace? I think it's because her younger detractors listened to the Starr witchhunt, heard the garbage that Joe Conason so rightly demolished in his book, "The Hunting of the President," and were either too lefty to trust a centrist who got elected twice at all, or too young to spot a witchhunt when they saw it. And who can't spot the lynch mob they're perpetuating.

Hint: after enough time accretes to a politician on the national stage as it is now, there will be a lot of crud attached to them. SOME of it might even have some truth to it, but the majority will be the buzzwords and perceptions attached to a politician who wants what the right wing doesn't. Doesn't mean it's true. Most of it isn't.

None of which is to say you MUST vote Hillary. There are lots of good reasons to prefer Obama, and a lot of good reasons to prefer Hillary. But with all this demonization going on, I haven't heard about the good that Obama wants to do very much recently. Just about how that witch is ruining it all.

The Wright thing is, by any measure, a bad thing for the Obama campaign. Here's the thing: no candidate, of whatever party, is ever going to win an election based on the slogan, "God damn America." Obama should be brutal, and throw the brother under the bus. He's already been cold-blooded in certain ways: the selective race-baiting, usually just in time for a primary or caucus where blacks are numerous, by deconstructing Bill's or Hillary's words to solidify the black vote and to get Hillary's negatives up. (Psst, that's called the "old politics," and "negative campaigning."

Another thing to watch is the Sean Bell shooting in New York. Watch how far Obama stays from something like that.

you can bet that mobs of people would be saying, "They didn't tell us about 3G! We want our money back!"

I think this prediction is completely obvious. iPhone 2.0 -- with 3rd party applications, Exchange server compatibility, and all the rest -- is coming in June. Look at the front page of apple dot com. The software part, that is. AT&T is building out its high-speed network. There's been low-power chips developed. I think they're going with it.