Great points. Sometimes we get lost in the weeds when historical moments are happening right before our eyes. It will be interesting to see how the events of the past year are documented in movies and books a decade from now. There are quite a few people that I reckon will be deeply regretting their actions.

Thanks guys,

But I'm sure it'll be lost in the throes of the new Clinton/Wright issue.

Thanks for the support!

This a great post, and you're on the money about what he's accomplished. It's unbelieveable. And, shows what a truly special candidate he is.

This is why I'm not worried about Obama vs McCain...

if he can handle the Clintons, Fox news, etc. he should have no trouble handling McCain solo.

My only fear is that the increasingly negative campaign could turn off Hillary supporters from voting for Obama in the General.

Obama will go down as a political Giant killer. I did not even give him much chance against the almighty Clintons. I now believe that for every Goliath, there is a David. Thanks for the post

neoprufrok: Let's hope not! I find it appalling she would start this all over again, she's getting very difficult to forgive. I know it is for distraction, but we can hope Chuck Todd is correct that the super deligates are going to start dripping slowly to Barack. He said on David Gregory's show today. It will not be all together, but in a significant pattern, to more or less begin a trend. Hope he had a good source.

The "liberal" media's making up for their previous Obama "free ride" now: by playing Wright's footage over and over, by totally missing the point of Obama's race speech, by letting Hillary get away with "misspeaking" about sniper fire four separate times, by letting McCain be the war expert confusing shiites and sunnis, and worst of all by acting like this is still a horse rase that can be won by either horse.

Ugh.

As an Barack supporter, I have to admit a bias--no, it is not amazing that he has come this far. What is AMAZING is that in this first Tenth of the 21 Century we still think it's amazing that a man of his character, drive, knowledge, experience, and passion is an "amazing" candidate. You fill in the rest.

Great post! I was just saying this very same thing to someone tonight. Anyone who thinks that he will be a weak general election candidate needs to realize that, as of right now, he is beating Bill Clinton. I've never seen anyone do that.

Well... I guess I am turning into the lone stranger regarding Barack Hussein Obama.

I guess I see to much of a used car salesman.

Everyone thinks that he is the greatest... he learned at an early age... HIGH SCHOOL how to talk people into his way of thinking.. he learned to debate and persuade others to do as he wished.

He has refined his speech making skills over the years. I listen to all his speeches on TV live and find it so hard to believe that the American Voter is so naive. But then the American People put God Bush into office the Second Time.

He has demonstrated NOTHING NEW in the area of policy, he has not served in the ARMED FORCES.. he has spent his life in PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND IVY LEAGUE COLLEGES.

He hides behind half-truths of totally avoids issues. You want to give him credit for a letter sent in MARCH OF LAST YEAR. Me I would have to see a stamped copy that it was received and a signature on the stamp.

As a matter of fact he was AWARE IN MARCH OF last year about Wright MIGHT become an issue in his campaign. BUT the DNC, main stream media, and OBAMA did not make it public UNTIL AFTER he was clearly in the LEAD.

Because of his lies, his to good to be true and his firey attitude when confronted in the Virgin
Islands this week... I question... if he will KEEP HIS PROMISES TO his loyal followers... Only taking care of those key in his campaign and forgeting
the American People..

BEWARE THE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING.

To all Obama cult members, read this:
PJB: A Brief for Whitey
posted by Linda
By Patrick J. Buchanan

How would he pull it off? I wondered.

How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people?

How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about “the U.S. of K.K.K. America,” and howled, “God damn America!”

My hunch was right. Barack would turn the tables.

Yes, Barack agreed, Wright’s statements were “controversial,” and “divisive,” and “racially charged,” reflecting a “distorted view of America.”

But we must understand the man in full and the black experience out of which the Rev. Wright came: 350 years of slavery and segregation.

Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what white America must do to close the racial divide and heal the country.

The “white community,” said Barack, must start “acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination — and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past — are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds … .”

And what deeds must we perform to heal ourselves and our country?

The “white community” must invest more money in black schools and communities, enforce civil rights laws, ensure fairness in the criminal justice system and provide this generation of blacks with “ladders of opportunity” that were “unavailable” to Barack’s and the Rev. Wright’s generations.

What is wrong with Barack’s prognosis and Barack’s cure?

Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, “everybody but the rioters themselves.”

Was “white racism” really responsible for those black men looting auto dealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, as Otto Kerner said — that liberal icon until the feds put him away for bribery.

Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.

Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.

This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ’60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.

Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks — with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas — to advance black applicants over white applicants.

Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?

Barack talks about new “ladders of opportunity” for blacks.

Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for “deserving” white kids.

Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America’s fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?

Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

he'll win them back, if this bloodletting were to stop soon. But if the party wasn't going to get his back after the speech, I think they are the cowards I've been afraid they are. Except for Bill Richardson -- thanks, Bill.

If he had the spring and summer, he would concentrate on winning back Hillary supporters and do a good job of it. Hillary doesn't give a damn about the half of Democrats who are now reviled by her, and that includes 80% of the black vote and many people like me. She'll figure it doesn't matter -- we'll vote for her anyway. Yeah, that's "tough" but it's also cold, mean-spirited, and again shows -- this is important -- her total disdain for Democrats. Bill sold out Democratic principles left and right. Hillary will be worse. Much worse.

The spectacle of her sitting yesterday with RICHARD MELLON SCAIFE -- who funded the Arkansas Project to destroy the Clintons in the 90's -- and this is where she sets out to destroy another Democrat. In some twisted way, she gave Scaife a better win against her than if he had destroyed her: he's turned her into everything he is, and turned her against anything good that ever existed in her.

Obama's achievements are astronomical. But for the sociopathic ambitions of the Clintons, America would be on its way back to greatness.

Good job, Hillary.

"A talking head on Hardball last week commented that Obama was the *Jackie Robinson* of presidential politics."

And unfortunately Hillary Clinton isn't and can't be a "Jackie Robinson" for us women. Beyond all else, it requires class, integrity and strength of one's own character and self-awareness to fulfill that role.

where will the black vote go when hillary wins without them?

Elizabeth2, you wrote: "And unfortunately Hillary Clinton isn't and can't be a "Jackie Robinson" for us women. Beyond all else, it requires class, integrity and strength of one's own character and self-awareness to fulfill that role."

The original reference made those points but went one step further. Those traits wouldn't have mattered if Jackie Robinson weren't also an extremely capable baseball player. Obama is showing just that capability this election season.