"As always with Obama, it's a question of who the rubes really are. It's the power of glamour.

You got a problem with Rube Goldberg? Heh, indeed.

There's nothing the matter with Kansas as far as Barack Obama is concerned.

Ad.

"Some of those states in the middle."

Kaus es asustado él estará en el medio de México.

Mickey Kaus is a Marxist and a snob like Obama.

Kaus es como Che, solamente más feo.

Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd get around to the subject of the Clinton-Obama debate.

On the substance, it is hard for me to tell where Prof. Althouse is criticizing Obama and where she is critiquing Rich and Dowd in their defense of Obama.

"The Monongahela River, which runs cleaner than when they were young (not a good sign)..."

Obama visits Pennsylvania.

Prof. Althouse asks: "Why don't environmentalists celebrate economic recessions?" I answer: "For the same reason anti-abortionists don't celebrate single mothers working two jobs and still facing obstacles that appear to be insurmountable. It is tough to sell people on the hard work that is going to take place because of the hard decisions that are to be made. Much easier to sell them on pretty pictures."

Not Bittergate.

Bitterness build up.

A sentence about French President Nicolas Sarkozy and American presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Wherein Prof. Althouse uncovers the NYTimes plot to undermine the Obama candidacy by furthering a negative Obama narrative.

"She was admitted to the private San Francisco fund-raiser as an activist blogger and then functioned as a journalist."

Bloggers should know their place.

"He has the unique skills to try to lower the temperature and foster a sense of common ground."

Casey at the bat for Obama.

"Well, he's not running for sociologist in chief, he's running for president."

When Shrum and Carville are your defenders, you are screwed.

The "Compassion Forum."

A twofer: bland and tired.

"So Indiana may end up being the tiebreaker."

Is Obama a leftist or just inexperienced? Prof. Althouse puzzles through this question with the help of the balanced panel of John Hinderacker, Ed Morissey, Glenn Reynolds and Mickey Kaus (whose piece she particularly likes).