The article I'm referring to has already been diaried by MikeMinCT  

The purpose of this diary is to highlight the fact that three Kossacks have now been immortalized in this epitome of magazines, The New Yorker.

Keep your eyes and ears open, friends.  There's been a heavy influx of trolls today, and it's gonna get worse.  Remember back (before the "strike"), all those disruptive comments made by Hillary supporters, solely to be disruptive?

Well, we ain't seen nothin' yet.

I'm talking about his Iraq troop-levels gaffe yesterday.  But that isn't really the mistake he's made that may send his campaign in the same direction as Hillary Clinton's.

Join me below the demarcation line.

UPDATE:  And in answer to all those who (rightfully) say to "move on", a little Obama clip.

Repeat after me.................I AM OBAMA!!!!


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What happened between September 1, 2007 and May 21st, 2008 to change your mind about fighting to seat the Florida and Michigan delegates?

Simple question.  Not so simple to answer, for Hillary.

Please, no.  Don't do it.  Hillary dumped her for a reason.  She was

I-N-C-O-M-P-E-T-E-N-T

Why on earth would the Obama camp even be thinking of hiring Patti Solis Doyle??

Remember her?

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I'm certainly not anywhere near the wisest amongst us.  I've been very deep into this battle against the Clintons, myself (check my comments for proof).  As much as I came to admire and respect Barack Obama, I came to loathe the Clintons.  And the reasons, I feel, are valid.

But if, like we say, "the nomination is his" why then are we still so obsessed with everything Hillary?  We claim to be above the Clinton drama, and yet each day there are still three or four anti-Clinton diaries on the Rec'd list.

File this under "Did she REALLY say that?!?!"

Caught this at TPM.  What a lovely thing to see!

New Gallup numbers shed some light on the question of whether Wright is really going to turn out to be a major liability for Obama in the general election.

Amusingly, the poll finds that McCain's association with George W. Bush is more damaging than Obama's association with Wright.

Number of likely voters who say Bush makes them less likely to vote for McCain: Thirty-eight percent.

Number of likely voters who say Wright makes them less likely to vote for Obama: Thirty-three percent.

And 64% say Wright won't affect their vote at all.  Look for that number to DECREASE, not increase, as McCain and his surrogates try to beat THAT dead horse all the way up until November.

....can she run the White House?"

Didn't see this diaried yet.  It's a story in McClatchy that talks about what Obama himself has mentioned as a good criteria for judging his "Executive experience"

Obama has said, from early on in the campaign, to "watch how he runs his campaign" if you want to see the kind of manager he is.  And, conversely, to watch how Ms. "Ready-on-day-one" Clinton runs hers.

So, Hillary puts out an ad on the final day before PA, that resurrects bin Laden, and most of the catastrophes of the last 50 years, to scare PA voters to her side.

Since she was at +6 to 8 on Monday, and won by over 9, it may well have worked.  We should expect much more of this in the last days before the Indiana vote.

There's a very readable inside account of Hillary's campaign out at The New Republic.  Most of it describes exactly what we thought about Mark Penn.  That he is tyrannical, and uses his ever-present polling as a weapon against rivals in the campaign.

It's called "Voices In Her Head"

But the surprise here is that not only is Bill "off the reservation" in so many remarks he's made to hurt the campaign, but that he's actually muscled in his own people to try and "save" it after Iowa.  

The American Postal Workers Union today UNANIMOUSLY endorsed Barack Obama for President!

I'm quoting the endorsement in its entirety, because it is a press release:

UPDATE:  original title claimed he had joined the race.  He is putting together an exploratory committee.

Fred Thompson Freepers must be beside themselves with glee, that they won't HAVE to vote for John McCain in November.

They now have their candidate.

UPDATE: - Will update with link, as soon as one shows up.

Here it is:  

The Times now has up their own write-up of the results, which paints a more mixed picture for Obama. Here's the Times pdf of the poll internals. Here's the one from CBS.

UPDATE II:  From TPM -

Overall, though, in most of the key measures that people are now watching, the internals pretty much all look good for Obama and he appears to have been damaged very little by March. But, again, take a look at the internals and let me know your thoughts.

....and Josh is no softy for Obama, so no grain of salt needed!

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This is the funniest thing I've read all year, so far.  But it's shaping up to be a long year.  

Josh at TPM has a great story up this morning about how the Hillary supporters are not just moving the goalposts, but changing the sport altogether.

Hi, just a short, totally unrecommendable diary to pass the time.  I was just talking with Mrs. Karamazov about when we both started supporting Obama.  I was originally for Dodd.  Didn't even know about Obama then.  And Dodd would have been an excellent president.  I hope he gets a place in Obama's admin.

In a stunning turnaround, the former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay said Thursday he would be a defense witness for the driver of Osama bin Laden.

Air Force Col. Morris Davis, who resigned in October over alleged political interference in the U.S. military tribunals, told The Associated Press he will appear at a hearing for Salim Ahmed Hamdan.

"I expect to be called as a witness ... I'm more than happy to testify," Davis said in a telephone interview from Washington. He called it "an opportunity to tell the truth."

Washington Post has a much more compelling version of the story.  

I need sleep, so will post only a few quotes, without analysis: