His opening speech before the RBC met addressed the topic, but he balanced it with the racist claims and tried to make it look like it was equal and balanced on both sides.

He's weak. The DNC should not be moving to Chicago before Obama is guaranteed the nomination. Even if he gets it, if he loses the election he won't be the head of the party, will he.

As Clinton prepared to formally endorse his candidacy on Saturday, Obama said the Democratic National Committee would no longer accept donations from federal lobbyists or political action committees. He said he would keep Howard Dean as the national chairman, but was deploying his own advisers to oversee party operations.

6 months ago I was firmly in the "anybody but a Republican" camp. I never imagined that I would get angry enough to switch to independent. I wonder how many other women feel the same way? I'm betting Dean knows exactly how many.

With some differences, of course.

And I tried so hard, too. I really wanted to believe it would and could work. But I was wrong.

So I'm right back where I started from, believing it really has nothing to do with me - it's only about the power brokers and the big shots and the like, the ones who can buy or scream or bully or shamelessly maneuver their way to the top with no regrets whatsoever.

I have no idea what I'll do, come November. I know I won't vote McCain. But whether I'll vote for Obama is pretty questionable.

But the idea that he was unaware of all the places where it took place -- the web, MSM and the campaign itself is laughable.

These are pols.  They have agencies and staff who do nothing but moniter the media for them day and night and summarize coverage.  The idea that this campaign, where the pro-Obama message was so tightly tied between the DNC, the media and blogs could somehow be ignorant of what was going on is ridiculous.

Seriously, over 20 years ago I had a summer internship in a minor state office where my entire job was summarizing news clips about my boss.

So where is Richardson now? He says, slightly incoherently, "I was a conservative Democrat who became a progressive Democrat who's now a moderate." Huh? Ryan Lizza, who wrote a definitive profile exploring how Richardson's resume overshadowed his candidacy (which has now vanished down the TNR memory hole), concluded, "Richardson, despite his years on the world stage, has never developed any fixed foreign policy ideology." Lizza went on to tally up some of Richardson's bad calls: In 1985 he supported aid to the Contras, then flipped after Iran-Contra broke. In 1991, he voted against going to war in Iraq, then later flipped and said he'd made a mistake. He ran the whip operation for NAFTA -- actually setting up a joint operation with Gingrich's staff -- but says he now regrets aspects of that vote. "I guess you'd call me more of a fair-trader now."

And this sort of incoherence goes across the board. Asked who his favorite Supreme Court Justice was, he chose Byron "Whizzer" White, a Kennedy appointee who opposed Roe. He later apologized, and admitted he hadn't thought it through. Asked about whether he'd vote for the Iraq Funding Supplemental in March of 2007, he said he didn't know, then contradicted his own position and said he'd cut troop funding.

Hillary would have turned right around and asked Obama.

I actually had to take a car service today for the first time in ages. The only other time I can remember taking a car in the last year was a late night taxi. I'm going to be in a rude wallet awakening next year when I will have to drive. Ugh.