Looks like Clinton has been Hanging With the Hard Working White Folk in Oregon. Here a little something from the shallow end of the gene pool:

“I think it’s just great that she’s staying in,” Frisby told me. He isn’t a big fan of Obama. He’s heard Obama won’t sing the national anthem, that he considers it a war song. “How good an American could he be if that’s his way of thinking?” Frisby asked. “His patriotism goes one way—that’s his way.”

How did Frisby hear about Obama’s dislike of the national anthem? You guess it: By email.

And these people are Democrats.

John Cole, ruminating about the potential disaster awaiting the GOP this November found this gem in his comment section:

The GOP let Alfred E. Neumann sit behind the wheel of their bus and drive it off a cliff. The fuckin’ thing is falling, Alfred’s grinning mug is turned to them asking “Hows that fellas?” and somewhere from the back of the bus a genius removes his tongue from the window and mumbles “Pssst, I think we have a message problem.”

Now if we can just get Danziger or Oliphant to draw the cartoon.

Obama is now the presumptive nominee. Its time to get to work on winning the GE. This Saturday the Obama campaign kicks off its 50-state Voter Registration drive. I urge all of you to spend just one day during this election season registering new voters. Clinton and Obama brought millions of new voters into the process and we want that momentum to continue.  Here's a snippet of the email I got from the campaign a few days ago:

The Barack Obama campaign is launching its new 50-state voter registration and mobilization drive on May 10th at locations across the nation. In Albuquerque, Obama supporters will meet at the IBEW Union Hall at 4921 Alexander Blvd. NE (map) on Saturday, May 10, at 9:00 AM to kick off the Vote for Change effort in New Mexico.

Arrive a little before 9:00 AM for free coffee, juice, donuts, etc., and there will be voter registration training for those new to the process. Participants will fan out to do voter registration throughout the county. Anyone interested in participating may contact Ana Canales at alcanales@comcast.net or 515-9662, or click to RSVP for the event online.

Similar events will continue through the November election in all 50 states, including New Mexico. Recent voter registration drives organized by the Obama campaign have helped in gaining more than 200,000 new Democratic registrations in Pennsylvania, more than 165,000 new Democrats in North Carolina, and more than 150,000 new Democrats in Indiana.

It will also be necessary for the Obama campaign to define McCain. If you have any doubts that McCain is a "reasonable" guy I suggest you read this:

John McCain sought to burnish his conservative credentials Tuesday with a broadside against "the common and systematic abuse of our federal courts by the people we entrust with judicial power" and a promise of "better judges" in the mold of Supreme Court Justices John G. Roberts and Samuel Alito. (my emphasis added)

Its time to train our fire on the Senator from Arizona. America can't afford a third Bush term. It really is that simple. One way we (TPM diarists) can effect this narrative is to write about McCain and search out stories that effectively paint McCain for what he is: BUSH III.

For those of you who have been out working for your candidate (Clinton, Obama, et. al.) I salute your service and I hope you will all continue to support our likely nominee. For those of you who have never been involved in a campaign please help us take back our country from this awful administration.  Write to your local paper, blog, donate cash, get involved in Obama's 50-state voter registration campaign. We have a lot of work to do and now is the time to set aside our differences and work for all Democratic candidates at all levels of government.

So troops: strap on your Birkenstocks, fasten your flag lapel pin firmly in place, take a last sip of that latte, hop in your Volvo/Saab/Prius and get to work. We've got some McCain ass to kick!

Chicago Tribune endorsed Barack Obama ... again.

At times, the historic contest between the first viable female presidential candidate and the first viable African-American has threatened to devolve into just another ugly race between ordinary pols whose positions on the issues are largely the same. But in recent weeks, Obama's personal and political mettle have been sorely tested— and have been proven.

This seems to me to be the most salient point made in the new endorsement.

But Wright's rants only escalated. Obama was forced to publicly denounce the man who presided at his wedding, baptized his daughters and supplied the title for his book, "The Audacity of Hope."

By putting him in this difficult position, Wright may have unwittingly done Obama a favor. Moved to passionate restatement of his beliefs, Obama reminded a lot of people of what they found so appealing in him in the first place.

Its about integrity, stupid.