But I think Hillary's voters are easily reachable for Obama -- by taking them seriously. I cast my mind back, you know, to the time when Hillary was 20-30 points up, and the Huffington Post was fully of commenters opining that, if Obama, or Edwards, but especially Obama -- that if Hillary won, they'd vote for McCain, or some "other Republican."

I, a male Hillary supporter, saw the craziness pretty clearly. Hillary derided by Jesse Jackson, Jr., for "intentional crying," I think he said, to "play the female card." How about her emotions got a little quavery? Some of the Obama Democrats simply embraced every single lie that the Republicans had put there about Bill and Hillary. Well, they invested tens of millions in those lies, but then I saw them start up again, from people who should know better. The press, particularly NBC's "Lost Boys," as Somerby puts it, put up their psycho sexual mojo against all things Clinton. I think some Obama people just relaxed their minds a bit, thinking, well, it helps our guy.

The thing that cut the deepest were the phony charges of racism. That was cheap and undeserved, and, if a South Carolina organizer's "memo" is to be believed, quite deliberate. Like the charge by Drudge, for God's sake, that the Obama-in-Muslim-garb photo was the fault of Hillary, passed on by Obama officials as if Drudge is to be believed. Or by the end, the simple word from the Obama campaign that Hillary's mention of Bobby Kennedy's late campaigning was somehow villainous, and the disgusting embrace of that ridiculous charge by so much of the so-called "left." I'll never watch Olbermann again, and anybody who compares him to Edward R. Murrow I'll punch in the face.

I think Hillary ran a great campaign for 1998 or 2000. She would have won in a walk back then. By 2008, there was the Iraq vote, there was the Internet, and there was Barack Obama himself. I don't see him, ironically, as the big, "number one liberal" at all. He's quite conservative, kiddies, and he's already started triangulating, you notice. He's got you. He needs to get some evangelicals, some middle west conservatives, and so on. He could win in a landslide. Smart politician and a great speaker. I still don't quite believe him.

I sincerely hope that he's not a black continuance of that nasty influence on the Democratic Party (wait for the brickbats), Senator Moynihan, who sired the horrible man, Tim Russert, and his noxious effects on journalism.

I'll be cheering for Obama by the conventions, but I'm still not 100% convinced.

There's a method for this. He managed to pass Clinton on the right while appearing to his supporters as more of a leftist. Now he's running away from one thing: the stereotype of him as "an angry black man," "another Jesse Jackson." (Remember? That was the comparison that was derided as "racist." It wasn't. It was that the comparison, which Bill never made in any exhaustive way, that was verboten. It was radioactive politically.)

What's the first policy speech, on Father's Day? Repeat the Sister Souljah moment. Now, just tut-tutting about FISA, no vote against. Then make nice with the fundies, establish himself as just to the left of Dobson.

Know what you call this? Politics. Others call it "triangulation." Oh, but that's another radioactive observation. He's got you, former Edwards supporters, former Kucinich people and "anybody but Clinton" people. He's after the independents and a few of the evangelicals and a moderate Republican or two. He's thinking landslide. Smart politics. Not smart movement politics, but then, he never was that.

Well, Bob Schieffer, for one. When Clark made his polite and careful criticism of McCain -- strictly factual, in that he was saying that McCain has never had executive power over military decisions -- and Clark, for one, has -- Schieffer reacted as though Clark had pulled the plug on his breathing apparatus. It's pathological, folks. The media will stand together with McCain, will publish the sneakiest lies about Obama without comment, and will do its best to throw this election to McCain. Get ready for a fight.

At least, until you start thinking about it, and realize that his definition of "white" is "lefty." Where's the hilarious takeoff on that white person, Jesse Helms? That's really the definition of "whiteness." George W. Bush is the chief White Man today, not some bicycle geek from Seattle, or the admittedly

Definition of the fake left: they never say nasty things about the opposition. They love making fun of anybody who has stuck their nose out. Next, if you really try, writer of "Stupid White People," is the post that Maureen Dowd will soon vacate: chief snark who only makes fun of what she purports to be.

What you ridicule is often true, White Guy.com. Don't call it "white" or "progressive." Unless, of course, you're just secretly making fun of lefties, but you don't want to be called a "red baiter." That, of course, is what a lot of White People love to do.

I'm a former Hillary guy, and I've got to completely surrender to the guy. I watched a lot of the speech, and found my eyes streaming with tears a lot of the time. He made me proud and hopeful, and there's not much more a speech can do, is there?

And you are hereby forbidden to listen to MSNBC hacks like Alter and Mitchell, particularly the latter. I didn't like them when they were dining on Hillary, and I sure as hell don't think any better of them now. Hacks. Fools. It has to be said.