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That it was an Obama campaign staffer who asked Marc Ambinder when the press was going to start covering Bill Clinton's sex life.

That it was Obama who recycled the false smear that Hillary had a 20-year plan to power.

And if you criticize Obama on a blog say TPM or PuffObama you are attacked. As I noted earlier on a thread, a friend of mine and professor of history at Wake Forest observed:

Obama supporters have a personal relationship with their candidate. It is akin to a religious experience. He's taken on faith. Christianity too promises hope of eternal life. Obama promises hope in the here and now. And since neither Christianity nor Obama can deliver on their promises, the disappointment that inevitably will come will be brutal. They will turn on Obama.

Two years before the house purcase  Rezko's problems started to reach the newspapers.  As someone who has worked in the field, by the time it go to the papers, I would say one year before Rezko started being in default and in violation of regulatory agreements with the various government loans and programs.  The Law firm, that represented the non profit and Rezko was the same law firm, Obama's,  I lay my life on it he was getting the letters from the City showing the violations.

1.  He did not know or 2, he did not care to know.  Either is despicable.  

Some critics say that given Mr. Obama's longtime emphasis on ethics, it is puzzling that he would have been so involved with the Rezkos on the house and lot deals after questions had begun to crop up about Mr. Rezko's political and business activities.
For at least two years before the property purchases, news articles had raised questions about Mr. Rezko's influence over state appointments and contracts. There had also been reports that the F.B.I. was investigating accusations of a shakedown scheme involving a state hospital board to which Mr. Rezko had suggested appointments.

Also, Chicago officials had announced that they were investigating whether a company partly owned by Mr. Rezko had won public contracts by posing as a minority business.

Obama's rally in Beaumont today was the highest-energy of this Texas swing, with a crowd that was about three-quarters black cheering at almost every turn.

An interesting moment came when he was asked a question about LGBT rights and delivered an answer that seemed to suit the questioner, listing the various attributes ? race, gender, etc. ? that shouldn't trigger discrimination, to successive cheers. When he came to saying that gays and lesbians deserve equality, though, the crowd fell silent.

So he took a different tack:

"Now I?m a Christian, and I praise Jesus every Sunday," he said, to a sudden wave of noisy applause and cheers.

"I hear people saying things that I don?t think are very Christian with respect to people who are gay and lesbian," he said, and the crowd seemed to come along with him this time.

I have had it with Obama. I intend to attack him without mercy, here, there and everywhere. Every misstep will be noted, every stupid comment published, every hypocrisy exposes. He lies like no one else in the race. His campaign denied meeting with Canadian officials after CTV aired their story. No meeting every took place they said. Well then what about the minutes from the meeting that the AP has now found. The Obama campaign told Canadian officials that they planned to make NAFTA an issue but not to worry about it, it was just politics.

Beaumont Texas today.

And you kindly tell me why you lied last week:

The denials were sweeping when Senator Barack Obama's campaign mobilized last week to refute a report that a senior official had given back-channel reassurances to Canada soft-pedaling Mr. Obama's tough talk on Nafta.

While campaigning in Ohio, Mr. Obama has harshly criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement, which many Ohioans blame for an exodus of jobs. He agreed last week at a debate with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton that the United States should consider leaving the pact if it could not be renegotiated.

On Monday, a memorandum surfaced, obtained by The Associated Press, showing that Austan D. Goolsbee, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago who is Mr. Obama's senior economic policy adviser, met officials last month at the Canadian consulate in Chicago.

 Senator Clinton has taken the same position as Senator Obama on NAFTA, albeit a bit later.  It was a political fumble on his part, but that is about it.  The Canadian envoy invited his economic analyst to an informal meeting and the Canadian government has indicated that the content of the meeting was in essence what his campaign said it was.  

 With Rezko, they appear to be on a treasure hunting expedition that isn't really leading anywhere.  Where are the allegations of impropriety?  As far as I can tell, failure to disclose the number of fundraisers he hosted for him.  I also cannot help but notice there were multiple emails sent by Senator Clinton's campaigners to the press suggesting they go on the attack on this pretty lame story.

And then this crossed the wires. A report on a rally in Beaumont, Texas:

Obama's rally in Beaumont today was the highest-energy of this Texas swing, with a crowd that was about three-quarters black cheering at almost every turn.

An interesting moment came when he was asked a question about LGBT rights and delivered an answer that seemed to suit the questioner, listing the various attributes -- race, gender, etc. -- that shouldn't trigger discrimination, to successive cheers. When he came to saying that gays and lesbians deserve equality, though, the crowd fell silent.

So he took a different tack:

"Now I'm a Christian, and I praise Jesus every Sunday," he said, to a sudden wave of noisy applause and cheers.

"I hear people saying things that I don't think are very Christian with respect to people who are gay and lesbian," he said, and the crowd seemed to come along with him this time.

The most complete video I've been able to find is unfortunately on a Fox blog.  

I don't think Obama does a terrible job, but he's clearly not used to dealing with hostile press.  He seems put out by having to do it and I'm not sure that's the more beneficial attitude to have with a press corps.

"The fact pattern remains unchanged."