careful what you wish for

In the back and forth game of Democratic primary politics, this has been a week for Obama. There was the speech on race earlier in the week which has gone platinum viral on the net. Then there were the decisions from both Michigan and Florida that there will be no do-over from the primaries that weren't. Thank goodness the plans to privately fund public elections didn't move forth; this an idea that ought to scare the hell out of folks.

Then today, there was Governor Bill Richardson's endorsement of Barack Obama, calling him a "candidate of a lifetime." And finally, there was the release of photos of President Bill Clinton with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright at a breakfast on Sept. 11, 1998 in which he, Clinton, admitted for the first time in public, that he had sinned with Monica Lewinsky.

HRC will need more appearances on SNL to get right again with the voters.