During the primary campaign Wright was mentioned briefly, however the media quickly buried any stories so that Barack could be nominated.

Do you feel dirty for lying so much? Just askin'.

The Rev. Wright subject has not been brought up yet. You’ll know when it has.

During the primary campaign Wright was mentioned briefly, however the media quickly buried any stories so that Barack could be nominated.

At this moment, money is pouring into the McCain campaign and more importantly, the independent 527 organizations. Obama still has decent fundraising, but his incoming cash flow peaked some time ago. For each dollar of negative advertising that the 527’s put out about Wright, Obama will need 8 to 10 in defense.

McCain will legitimately have no part of the Wright ads and will most likely condemn them. Of course, that will have no effect on the 527s.

The only variable now is how far the convention bump, the anger over liberal smears and the media backlash will go to increase the poll numbers. New state by state polls are just coming in, so wait until the end of the week to check the electoral map.

. Deference is not due anyone who is running for the nation's highest office, just basic fairness.

Calm down people.

Here is the strategy people: Barack Obama is questioning the sincerity of McCain's AND Palin's reform credentials. The ad released yesterday is exactly the tone of the rest of the campaign. Nothing about Palin's family.

They are tying Palin, McCain and Bush together as three corrupt politicians who talk a big game of reform but never deliver on it. Every day that Palin continues to lie about opposing the Bridge to Nowhere is a day the Obama campaign pounces on the cynicism of McCain-Palin and the non-reform nature of their ticket.

I am confident that Barack Obama knows what he is doing right now. The next big question will be whether or not Palin supports Ted Stevens' Democratic opponent in the Senate race. A negative answer is only further proof that she is no real reformer.

Or in other words, do we want to replace the most secretive and totally unaccountable VP in history with another one just like him?

As opposed to their little more than worship of Obama…

But we expected that uneven treatment all along — it was predictable.

And if the media descends as low as lefty bloggers, there will be a public backlash AT THE POLLS.

Yes, the Palin selection has already proven to be a good one and there will be a permanent boost for McCain (getting little more attention these days than Biden is getting, or for that matter, Obama), but we need to wait another week at least to see how the two teams really compare against each other. (After another week or so, by definition, the people rushing to change to McCain will have completed their rush to change to McCain.)

I honestly view Obama-Biden still as the leader currently, but obviously it is a real contest now — it's a bigger effect on the race this year than Gore's loss to Bush in the 2000 debates suddenly shocked the nation into realizing Bush had a chance to win, after all. McCain with Palin is that kind of shock, but noticeably stronger.

But let's wait and see.

What I think is absolutely ridiculous is the way the media has backed off of Palin, as if her insincere (and mostly unfounded) cries of sexism means they can't ask her pointed questions about her policies and her record. If she wants to play in the big boys' league, she needs to suck it up and deal with the criticisms and questions. That's just part of public life. It is the news media's job to find out who she is and what she stands for and report that to the American people. They are being far too complacent for fear of evoking the “liberal media bias” meme from the GOP.

The Republican operatives have belittled and berated Barack Obama as just speeches, however, Barack has over 20 years of experience in public service, plus a Natural Talent to organize and get things done, as evidenced by the successful running of his Campaign. Barack Obama has an innate judgment as evidenced by his speaking out against the Iraq war when it was not popular because he had the intelligence and common sense to know that the real was was in Afghanistan not Iraq. Bin Ladin did and does not live in Iraq. Barack Obama has the ability to inspire people to unite in a common cause to bring about the Necessary Changes we need today. Because if we do not unite for change, for true democracy, together we will all go down with the ship and be united anyway but in a negative way and not a positive way.

We definitely need a change in the way our politicians campaign which as to date, tears down one’s opponent through lies and dishonesty which only tears the country down and puts a bad taste in our mouths, though each candidate has the right to point out true policy differences. We should demand honesty and integrity from our politicians and stop letting them lead us down a yellow brick road of illusion, misstatements, lies and dirty political maneuvering!

Barack Obama’s message has been throughout that all children are Everybody’s Children, and that we must change the “mindset” for going into wars. He tells us that in order for us to make it as a society and solve our problems, that we must stop being divisive: gays against straight, Muslims, Jews, Palestinians, Christians must unite and respect one another’s religions. That will be his greatest gift to humanity at this time — the ability to see each other as ourselves — or together we can go down with the ship. Everyday he risks his life. He is not running because he has a thirst for power. He offers up his life for his love of humanity and to its next stage of evolution. We should embrace this gift and offer up our prayers that he can finish his mission, his high calling. We must stopped being fooled by politicians who only has the best interest of their pocketbooks and big corporations and not the pocket books of everyday average citizens. It should not take 10 years for the minimum wage to be increased, there is no justification for that. That should tell you there that politicians who vote no for an increase care nothing about your day to day struggles. And you have to ask yourself “What has the GOP done for me lately”? The years when the American Dream was thriving, they were years when there was Democratic Presidents and Congress. That is the true party of the people. If we are to get back to the American dream again we must put in office that party who has always been inclusive and the people’s champion. That party is the Democratic Party.

And lastly we must not listen to those who refuse to understand the changing of the old order, and the awakening of humanity to the new possibilities. We need a complete purification of the political and economical arenas which would be of the greatest value in bringing back Americas greatness and strength.