>http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/02/has_obama_been.html
>
>and better:
>
>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17388372/
>and
>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/26/politics/uwire/main3881166.shtml
>
>Is anyone the same 21 year old idealist they once were?


Not to be missed? Some guy who apparently has a direct connection from his brain stem to his blog thinking out loud with no clear point. My favorite parts of the blog were ones like these --

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And the grand finale to this tightly written, thought provoking, not-to-be-missed piece --

"Is David Axelrod the man behind Obama's curtain?"

Yawn....

I don't mind reading criticism of Obama. He deserves some for the quote about Pennsylvania voters being "bitter," which did come across as elitist and may cause him some lasting problems. I just like the criticism to be a little more coherent.

The MSNBC link is another yawn for me. Who cares what might have been in Hillary Rodham's thesis at Wellesley? That was 40 years ago. The CBS "News" story about Michelle Obama's undergrad work at Princeton is even more irrelevant. She isn't even running. When stuff like this is considered news, it's a sure sign the campaign is too long. Let's just call a vote for a few weeks from now, the way the English do it, and be done with it.