Lastly, I should admit that there is a piece of my childhood history that may predispose me to admiring Obama, though no less Clinton, and the topic of this thread thus piqued my curiosity.  I was raised by a single mom, though she did remarry in my teens.  For what it's worth, I still think of myself as being a single mom's son; and, moreover, I'm certain that this fact informs most of my political views as an adult.  Like Obama, I too stayed with my maternal grandparents for a few years while my mom returned to finish her degree.  I am not sure how I would respond to someone if, during the course of a conversation, they grilled me on the exact number of years my mother was single while I was in her care.  "Is it really fair for you to say you were raised by a single mother?--After all, when she was single, you were in her care a mere 4.7 years!"

By the way, I loved HIllary's speech...it sounded to me like Obama copied several themes of hers.  This is a media driven Obama...because he doesn't have the popular votes on his side....These wins are designed to push up his poll numbers by making it appear he is a big winner...even though the numbers are small and the caucuses are not representative of the real popular numbers.(polling in La. should be of particular concern to Democrats...only 30% whites voted Obama)This is for the low information voter...who has no idea that these caucuses do a terrible job of picking a nominee...and only a very small percentage of party loyalists or organized gamers participate.  

While I realize JFK had almost 20 years in Washington, I think the comparison is still apt. Obama is being told he is not ready because he's not experienced enough with Washington, but in fact he has more years of elective service than Hillary.

That's really beside the point. The point is his judgment is better, and he's been more willing to take hard stances than she has.

The war, of course, to start with (let me say the start of the war to negate the "but he voted like her since!!" line), plus his belief that we should directly engage Raul once Fidel is gone, and his support for banning cluster bombs. Hillary is opposite on all that. Those are SUBSTANTIVE, not PERFORMATIVE, so PLEASE stop the focus on his superiority in presentation. He's really saying something here.

Obama was born in Honolulu to a black Kenyan father and a white American mother. He lived most of his early life in the U.S. state of Hawaii. From ages six to ten, he lived in Jakarta, Indonesia with his mother and Indonesian stepfather.

His parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. So it looks like a couple of years. Then his mother remarried.

He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade until his graduation in 1979

My mother and father seperated when I was two.  I never knew my dad.  We lived with my grandmother for a while, on our own for a while and she remarried when I was eight.  My stepfather happened to be a really good man I now call dad.

"The Democratic Party must be about change. Not change as a slogan, not change as a bumper sticker, but change we can believe in."

We're the party of a man who overcame his own disability to tell us that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself; who faced down fascism and liberated a continent from tyranny.

And we're the party of a young President who asked what we could do for our country, and the challenged us to do it.

is a reference first to FDR, then to JFK.
The other very oblique reference to JFK I don't think really counts:

I am only here today because somebody, somewhere, gave my father a ticket to come study in America.

That's an allusion to the story Obama told during the Ted Kennedy endorsement, about then Senator JFK establishing a fund for Kenyans to travel to the US for education.