So Barack Obama believes that “ballot maneuvers” are legitimate when you are trying to win. I bet he won’t feel that way if the nomination is going to be decided in Denver. Nor does he currently feel that ballot maneuvers should count when you remove yourself from the ballot willingly as a political strategy (hello Michigan!)

His “new politics” meme is becoming the height of hypocrisy. Where in the world is the national press? This is a total embarrassment for the press. First, they “miss” the jeremiah wright story. then, they “miss” bill ayers. now they are ignoring the ugly, hardball tactics that obama used to get himself elected to the IL state senate. Hillary may not be some kind of angel when it comes to politics, but Obama is more than disengenous when he says that he doesn’t take money from oil companies (which is against the law anyway) and that he doesn’t take money from PAC’s (but he does take money directly from corporate execs directly — these are the same people who fund their company PAC’s), and he says that he doesn’t take money from washington lobbyists while he does take money from their spouses and from lobbyists who aren’t in washington. I ask again, “where is the national press”??? Obama is going to get slammed on all these issues if he should be the dem nominee. You know that the national press will pick up all of these issues as soon as the republicans start asking these questions. It’s disgraceful really…