...Bill and Hillary have fully renounced their racist ways, allowing Obama to accept their white-assed support.

I don't think that is the question.

Why is Obama moving to the center?

Is the question.

At this point I don't know if anyone knows what the hell anyone is talking about when the term "experience" comes up.

In the real world, that is, the one outside of the permanent LSD induced state of politics, experience is easy to understand.

Would you want a mechanic who was experienced with Hondas working on your Honda, or one who wasn't. Would you want to give someone with some experience with Fords, a chance to "learn" on your brand new Honda?

My guess is that for most people the answer is no. But in politics, we elect someone like Bush to the highest office of the land based on his barely being able to manage being a governor in a state where the governor does not even have that much power.

This must be my facination with politics - it's absurdist nature.

Obama self-acknowledged it was a stupid logo and a stupid idea. So the apologist crowd can go find something else to be Obama apologist about. The bottom line is the Obama campaign farted up a stinker.

The question is will this be a long term marker identifying Obamas arrogance (kind of like Gores I invented the internet) or will it be lost in the $100s of millions of campaign funded political detritus.

So is it a choice between the guy with a beautiful date, a martini, and a cigarette or the fat cat in a back room with a cigar, brandy, and a bunch other fat guys like Rove?

I like cigars but not if a room full of fat guys comes with it, so I'll go with the babe, the cig, and the martini. Thanks Karl for helping me clarify that in my head.

Being in a city called Unity is cute also, but also notable for Obamas first humiliating defeat.

This saccarin slogan reminds me of how the word change is going thru an Orwellian ringer. After Obamas campaign is complete, the word change in dictionaries will be newly defined as "same old, same old".

I supported Move-ons Betrayus ad, because I did not like watching a soldier turning into a political hack. But regardless of Kristol being an unprecendented hack himself, the move-on Alex ad was mis-leading, stupid, and based on fear mongering.

We in fact never will elect a president who is not willing to spill the blood of our young people. That will never happen. Every young person since the birth of this nation has been expected to potentially sacrifice their blood as needed by the nation. Don't see that changing anytime soon and Obama has already begun to sell his cability to engage in war in his movement toward the center.

Overall this ad gives no reason to give any credence to the politics of hope trope.

like the princess who can still feel a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds.

The responses to Salon from Obamites could not be worse if Salon published articles proclaiming Obama as a baby killing, soldier hating, Muslim terrorist with ties to flesh eating cults, and beats up homeless people, and has at least 24 illegitimate children a year.

This level of blind obedience and loyalty to all Obama reminds me of right wing authoritarian structure with left wing idealogy.

It's about who can spend the most money, not who has the better ideas, principals, character, or policies.

...the pin can work both ways.

Imagine a hip-hop artist wearing the same pin. I think it would work. Wouldn't surprised to see it happen. Make a great picture - a white guy with a buzz-cut and a suit standing next to a hip-hop guy in full gear both wearing the same button.

Keep the same video but instead lip-sync a new voice that compains about how liberals would allow the murder of precious babies like Alex and voila you have a pro-life commercial on the cheap.

Move-on jumped the shark when they promoted Obama in the primaries further fragmenting democrats, stupid move. But they do keep their hard-core base fed with this junk but annoy and disappoint everyone else.

What are they supposed to mean. Is it like when Ebert gives a thumbs up for a movie, I am supposed to go out and watch it? Or if I am thinking about watching a movie I'll decide after seeing if Ebert "endorses" it?

I read Ebert and other critics only to get some feedback and information about a film and what it's about. I could give a rats ass if they like it or not. If I vote for Obama, it won't be because Gore or anyone else endorses him.

At the same time I realize the great graphic novel Vendetta hits it on the head; the masses are more than willing to give up responsiblty for their lives and their decisions to an authority figure like a politician or government.