I've been watching the Obama campaign and I think I've nailed down the 10-point strategy he is using to get the nomination.

In a recent Diary called "The View From Ferraro's District," the author writes with some sensitivity about the people in Geraldine Ferraro's district.  We are told that it is a "middle class Italian, Irish and Jewish-American community;" the people there are at least  40% "white, Italians" but there are also "Filipinos..., Hispanics, West Indians, Polish, Irish, and Arab...and one pro-Clinton African-American family."  They are "good people... anti-war, pro-choice, homosexuality doesn't bother us," and they don't like Bush.  The author observes that "there is excitement for Hillary Clinton, or no one at all. Obama didn't even crack 30% here."

And then, the point of that Diary:  After Ferraro's comments "the whole community seemed to rise up and scream 'Thank you Congresswoman, at least somebody had the gall to say it!'"   The author concludes that these people are racists, not "blatant racist," but "much more the feeling that minorities get special treatment because of other people's racism."  I respectfully disagree.  I think the author is looking down on those people, patronizing them, as if their feelings are not valid.  But their grievances are real and so is their pain, and I do not think they are racists, blatant or any other kind.

Many "liberals" have fallen into the habit of assuming that all statements about race are racist.  This is why allegations of "political correctness" have teeth.  People can see with their own eyes that it ain't so, and it makes them distrust the whole liberal agenda.

Daily KOS has posted a story accusing the Clintons of making Obama's face look darker!  See http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3 /5/14345/50395/126/469746.  One of Obama's top aides, a Samantha Power, has called Hillary a "monster."   While all decent American are justifiably shocked at this latest horrific act by Horrible Hillary, it is only the last in a stream of unsurpassed evil by this woman.  Let's look at the record:

The truth is finally starting to come out, no thanks to American "journalism."  Canadian TV just ran a big story about Obama lying to Ohio on NAFTA. The Obama campaign secretly contacted the The truth is finally starting to come out, no thanks to American "journalism."  Canadian TV just ran a big story about Obama lying to Ohio on NAFTA. The Obama campaign secretly contacted the Canadian ambassador and told him not to worry about what he says on NAFTA in Ohio.  "Don't worry, it's just campaign rhetoric..."  See it here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAJYMgX4J uU

Also, David Gergen backed HRC's version from the debate saying that she was never a fan of NAFTA.  See the video here:  http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/2/27/ 234248/348#74

And here is the whole story on who really did the race-baiting, from Sean Wilentz in The New Republic, 2/27/08, "Race Man:  How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton":  
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?i d=aa0cd21b-0ff2-4329-88a1-69c6c268b304  

In 40 years of voting, I don't think I have ever voted for a Republican, and yet I do not know what I will do in November.  But I do know now that I will not vote for Obama. That is a position I have come to gradually.  His is the rare case where the more I learn about a person, the less I like him.  After the first bunch of primaries I still would have supported Obama, even though I found his campaign tactics troubling.  A great rousing speech is a wonderful and cathartic thing, but I was troubled by the lack of substance and the almost total reliance on emotional rhetoric, urging vast audiences of worshipful followers to simply "Believe."  I felt uneasy about the rote repetition of "Change You Can Believe In" without any indication of how or what he would do to bring it about (other than televising it on C-Span).  I found the relentless appeal to unthinking emotionalism and the campaign videos empty of content reminiscent of an earlier era, one that we should not want to emulate.  That was the beginning.