Something about Obama's reaction to Wright last week has recently struck me as odd and disconcerting.

During his praised Philadelphia speech on race, Obama stated, "I can no more disown [Rev. Wright] than I could my white grandmother..." Well, last week it seems that he disowned him.

Does this mean his white grandmother will be next to be thrown under the bus in order for him to pursue his political ambitions?

One of my favorite features of this site is the pollwatchers on the upper corners of the page. I don't think I'm alone in attentively waiting for one of our candidates to hit the 270 mark. Well, it's finally happened.

I think that event is an occasion for all of us to reflect on who really is the more electable candidate!!

Barack Obama just undercut the entire Democratic Party's line of attack for the general election in one fell swoop. In talking about facing voters in this primary cycle and the general election, Obama explained that in electing any of the candidates the policies of the Bush years will be behind us.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/4/20/ 162058/776

Thus, anyone designing ads featuring the McSame line of attack should get back to the drawing board.

I was never fully convinced that tying McCain to the Bush Administration would be the most effective route, but I guess because of Obama I will never find out.

Clinton said she'd seen in the media that "my opponent said that the people of Pennsylvania who faced hard times are bitter."

"Well, that's not my experience," she continued. "As I travel around Pennsylvania, I meet people who are resilient, who are optimistic, who are positive, who are rolling up their sleeves. They're working hard every day for a better future for themseves and their children."

"Pennsylvanians don't need a president who looks down on them. They need a president who stands up for them, who fights for them, who works hard for your futures, your jobs, and your families," she said, implicitly casting Obama as an elitist.

Enough said!!!
Hillary Rocks

If this doesn't convince the superdelegates that this man is unelectable, I think we have to abolish the superdelegate system for their blatant inability to understand the political realties of our country.

There's no way he can win Missouri, Ohio or Pennsylvania in the general election.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0 408/Obama_on_smalltown_PA_Clinging_relig ion_guns_xenophobia.html

It seems that the sad series of cases where Obama says one thing and does another is far from over. After promising to strengthen the prospect of the federal public financing system, suddenly Obama is having second thoughts.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/ 2008/04/obama-prepares.html

Apparently, since he's rolling in the dough he can through his principles to the wind - how shockingly rare for a person with access to mounds of wealth.

Can we really afford to have the credibility of the Democratic Party take a hit by making this guy our nominee?

Despite the beautiful speech the night of his South Carolina victory where he proclaimed that he "didn't see a black South Carolina or a white South Carolina." Well apparently since times are getting rough in Pennsylvania, his campaign have put on glasses that allow him to see the tint of people's skin color more clearly.

Here's the link:http://www.thetartan.org/2008/4/7/news/o bama

But the pertinent part is as follows:

While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obama's event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama. The Tartan's correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, "Get me more white people, we need more white people." To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, "We're moving you, sorry. It's going to look so pretty, though."

"I didn't know they would say, `We need a white person here,' " said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. "I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn't know it would be so outright."

Some may consider the title to this diary to be excessive, however I think it perfectly summarizes the fraud that he is perpetrating on the American electorate since the beginning of his presidential campaign.

The latest and most notable offense includes his recent television ad airing in Pennsylvania that centers around his claim, "I don't take money from oil companies..." Well, that is great, but he conveniently leaves out the fact that no one running for president does because it is ILLEGAL. Thus, are we to be left with the conclusion that his "new politics" consists simply of following the law? I don't know if that's progress - indeed, I know it isn't - but there doesn't seem to be anything audacious about it.

Sadly, the deceit doesn't stop there. Despite Obama impassioned assertion that he is free of the influence that comes with the money from oil companies, the truth is that he has relied on bundlers who I suppose "moonlight" as the executives of major oil companies to finance his campaign.

Obama had his chance to prove his stamina and willingness to stand up to the special interests in Washington when called to vote on the Energy bill in 2005 and he capitulated. Moreover, one of the principal beneficiaries of that bill, Exelon, is a major Obama contributor.

So I end this diary pondering whether the change Obama promises as President will be anything like the change he brought about in Senate. There is no reason to think that it won't because he is asking us to look at his record as indicative of what he will do in the White House.

Perhaps Obama's problem of gaining a grasp on the truth is due to the fact that his hands are slippery from digging deep into the coffers of the oil companies.

For more on the fact check see: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080331/ap_o n_el_pr/obama_fact_check