Good. The rank and file military love Obama and I wouldn't be surprised if that didn't spread to their families.

NC is full of military families.

well, those are nice ads, but i think this will help obama more:

http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2008/04/dueling_endorsements_in_the_ta.php

thohillary clinton, just another troll. Why are these people allowed out of the mental ward is beyond me. Can some one page the doctor, we have one that flew over the cuckoo's nest wondering the blogs again.

I support Clinton, but there is no doubt in my mind that Obama will rebound in NC to a big lead. Everyone was just as scared when Wright story first broke. This, too, will pass, unless Wright refuses to go away until the primary.

"Sharpton blasts Obama:
'He's grandstanding in front of white people' :

Barack Obama made a call for nonviolence in the aftermath of the Sean Bell verdict - infuriating the Rev. Al Sharpton, who accused the presidential candidate of trying to "grandstand in front of white people," sources told The Post"

I guess they will pile on now.

Do we still want to discuss race?

Geez.

As an BO supporter, I am sooo bumbed out right now!!!! The PA loss, even though it was expected, and Rev JW little press tour has taken the wind out of my sails a bit...The only bright spot is that i prefer this stuff to come out now as opposed to coming out in September or October...

:(

Based on Barack’s triple back flip today, if you are part of the “black community” or Barack’s white granny you got to be nervous. Please reconcile Barack’s statement today to the press with what he said in Philadelphia about Jeremiah Wright: "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe". Yes he can and yes he did.
Politics of change?
I think we have always had politicians as sleazy as Obama. Politics as usual.

Off topic but does Bill Clinton every sleep? He seems to have about 4 times more events then either Obama or Hillary.

Gatalife, you gotta love that Reverend Wright call it correctly the other day. He indicated that Barack is the kind of guy who will say politically what needs to be said regardless of what he believes. Well, Barack proved him right. Two months ago he had never heard Wright say anything objectionable in 20 years. Now, apparently, in the last eight weeks, aliens have taken over the body and mind of Wright and he is saying things he has never said before.

"Mrs. Clinton said the tax on the oil companies, which have been reporting record profits as oil prices soar, would cover all of the lost revenue from the federal tax on gasoline and diesel fuel. She also said no highway projects would suffer."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/us/politics/29campaign.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1209488889-ezW0nzooAsTl6HD0yGcN8A&oref=slogin

Try reading something people. The gas tax is a small part of her plan.

Obama is wrong on this one.

Don't forget to buy Wright's new book,"Obama tossed me under the bus."

The gas tax suspension makes no sense. The oil companies will charge what the market will bear; and they already know they can get at least $3.60. Thus, some portion of the tax reduction will flow out of our pockets and into their's. When the tax in reinstated after the election and everybody starts screaming at the instant 18.4-cents increase (24.3 for diesel), Big Oil will be blamed. But to paraphrase Dick Cheney, "So what?". In the meantime, watch the potholes multiply.

I can't believe I'm saying this - but I'm trying to figure something out about the gravatar. I tried a new one tonight but Lis,b couldn't see it - all she saw was a big red X. So I changed it back.

So I'm wondering what you mean - did it change here?

pay no attention to goatlife, he isn't saying anything worth discussing.

As far as the ads go, I think they are great and well-done, and I am feeling a whole lot better about Obama keeping on a positive tack.

These ads are out of place. Obama has absolutely no credibility discussing "hard work, community, keeping your word," He's outed as a liar by his own pastor, friend, spiritual advisor, and mentor of over 20 years. Even today, he demonstrated an air of entitlement and arrogance by criticizing Wright for hogging the airwaves during the past several years as if they were his by right.

I am glad that Wright has exposed himself for his hate, racism, and plain offensive thinking. His ideas set integration back 50 years. That Obama has 20 years of very close association leaves no credibility in his continue claims he didn't know Wright.

Obama is full of lies, clearly doesn't keep his word, and really has no history to suggest he has any understanding of hard work. He is pathetic and these ads will not help cover this up at this late date.

Matthew
http://www.TheIndependentView.com

Reading this thread, I see more sane folks than the crazies.

I can only hope that that's true nationwide.

Run a clean race and may the better person win. Don't run a clean race and all we get is crazies.

Great ads.

Greg, you've got a mistake in the transcript: It's "As CIC, my job 'will be' to keep you safe." Not "is", which sounds like he's being presumptuous, or else prescient.

A "millary" is a way of describing HRC's hawkish outlook, ie "obliterate" the middle east.

JennOfArk,

You are rediculous and offensive to suggest 'sin of being Black'. Obama, Wright, and continuing supporters are challenged with being hate-filled and racist, even if only by condoning and facilitating racism and hate. Look at many of the responses here on TPM, folks not only defend or excuse hate and racism, but often pile on with their own, with derogatory insults, and simply confirm what I and many, many others are pointing out about Obama.

I realize that I am likely quite a bit older than you and others here, but it really saddens me to see how little progress we've made in removing racism and hate from public discourse. Further, it is equally troubling to see the lack of respect shared and expressed by Obama supporters in general. If this is the state of liberalism today, it is morally bankrupt. Definitely there is nothing 'progressive' about this beyond being a new label for being ignorant, boorish, and out-of-step with the rest of America.

Matthew
http://www.TheIndependentView.com

eh, for AAs, getting on Harvard Law Review is not based on grades, as it is for everyone else. So no, I am not impressed. And "Professor" Obama has no published scholarship at all to boast of. So, yes, he's an empty suit, and you're another dumb bunny : )

From what I have been able to get from numerous articles, the affirmative action preference on the HLR may have come into affect after Obama's time. I was at law school at UVa in the same general time period and those issues were a hot topic at the time, and I know that faculty diversity was a hot topic at Harvard Law during the time Obama was there.

In any event, however, Obama graduated MAGNA CUM LAUDE at Harvard, so he undoubtedly had the grades to qualify.

Furthermore, I think it's silly to minimize the fact that he was elected by the editorship of the HLR to become its president.

Everything I've read about the impression that Obama made on his classmates at Harvard Law fits with the approach and attitude that Obama says he wants to bring to the White House.