No wonder HRC was silent. There is a picture of  Rev. Jeremiah Wright and President Bill Clinton in September 11, 1998!!

You can see it here=
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0 308/Jeremiah_Wright_was_White_House_gues t.html#comments

How ironic that the HRC Campaign as reported today by the Nytimes were pushing the Wright issue to SD's to weaken Obama. When they invited him into the White House. This guy must have been respected in his religious circles for them to invite him. So Obama's story checks out again. Team Obama should milk this picture for what it is worth.

Putting aside the latest Gallup poll on the 'Percieved Honesty Gap'.
Which Obama and McCain both scored high polls on. While HRC trails significantly.
See it here- http://www.gallup.com/poll/105097/Percei ved-Honesty-Gap-Clinton-Versus-Obama-McC ain.aspx

I wanted to explore further and I found this poll today that explains factors beneath the surface such as emptahy, vision, partianship, getting things done. strong and decisive etc.

On Most Dimensions, Obama is Stronger Than McCain

Obama is most likely to best McCain on measures of empathy, such as "cares about people like you," or understands problems Americans face in their daily lives." He also does very well on being "someone you would be proud to have as President." McCain's weakest dimension is "generally agrees with you on the issues" and both Obama and Clinton have a clear advantage over McCain here.
Obama does less well on items related to experience, such as "is a strong and decisive leader" and "has the right experience to be President." However, despite these disadvantages, more items from both surveys are seen as describing Obama than McCain.

Obama Is Also Stronger Than Clinton

In both surveys, Obama is described by more traits than is Clinton. Once again, his strengths are on empathy, but he also exceeds Clinton on "would work with both parties to get things done." Obama trails Clinton on experience and decisiveness, as he trailed McCain, but it's important to note that Clinton also trails McCain on these measures (although by not nearly as much).
McCain is strongest on "honest and trustworthy," and Obama is close to even with him on that measure. But it is Clinton's weakest dimension on the USA Today/Gallup poll (it wasn't asked in the CNN/OR poll). In fact, Gallup has tracking that shows Clinton to be the weakest she's ever been on this measure since 1994.
The Obama campaign has had a difficult few weeks (pre-speech); no doubt the fluctuation in the horserace reflects those events and missteps. But beneath the surface, a more complex picture of Obama's strength emerges. Just as economic indicators (like home foreclosures) can reveal more about the economy than the Dow, horserace numbers are necessary, but not sufficient, to understand the Presidential race.

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/obama_v_mc cain_and_v_clinton_b.php

Bear in mind this poll was on 3/14. Pre-Wright.
But it does show a clear trend that favours Obama on likeability and the 'share the beer' factor.

This shows that on the major fundamentals that Obama stacks up pretty well. Remember, McCain is a kinda likeable person on the surface. While privately, people say he is a 'total jerk'. People never say that of Obama. I think this is important, because people vote on their gut emotion. And this factor although not the main point prehaps, does help you on the way. For Hillary, I would say that on the upside, all her negatives are known. So you either like her or totally hate her.

Barack Obama 'Philadelphia' speech is the most watched speech ever and currently the most popular video in the world.

It has already been seen by over 2million people on Youtube.

You can see it here.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU

This is amazing and a true testament of the deep love and respect people have for Barack Obama.

The Nation writes:

OBAMA'S SPEECH MAKES YOUTUBE HISTORY... Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech is the most popular video in the world today, drawing an unusual 1.2 million full views in its first 24 hours on YouTube - double the views of the next most popular clips. YouTube only counts visitors who watch an entire video, so hundreds of thousands of additional visitors probably watched part of the 37-minute address.
While commentators and Democratic leaders predict that "A More Perfect Union" will ultimately be seen as a historic contribution to American race relations, it is already making history in YouTube politics. At this pace, it will be the most watched contemporary political speech in Internet history. In about a day, it is already the second most viewed item on Obama's innovative YouTube channel, which boasts 810 videos and 13 million channel views. (For comparison, that is nine times the views of Clinton's channel and 21 times the views for the McCain channel.)

Obama's all-time top video, a 4-minute response to President Bush's State of the Union recorded exclusively for YouTube, ultimately drew 1.3 million views. An Obama aide tells The Nation that video took about two weeks to reach one million views -- this longer Philadelphia address broke one million views in a single day, with visitors voting it the top rated and most "favorited" video on YouTube. And over at MSNBC.com, an excerpt of Obama's speech was also the most popular clip, drawing over 360,000 views.

Obama has staked his campaign on the premise that we cannot solve the country's problems through the old, broken model of divisive politics and scandal-driven, never-ending media battles. From improving race relations to ending the war responsibly, he is offering voters honest and nuanced ideas over soundbites. And a record-breaking number of people continue to embrace this unusual political proposal -- often routing around the media filter to hear from Obama directly.

Update: In traditional media, big speeches are largely treated as a menu for ordering a few appetizing soundbites. That's why Joe Klein understandably worries that:

Most people will never hear the elegant complexity of Obama's speech in full...though they certainly should. As others have already said, it was the best speech about race I've ever heard delivered by an American politician.
Yet as this video goes viral, tapping many months of the campaign's decentralized organizing, literally millions of people will see the speech in full. An Obama Campaign email urged supporters to send it to everyone they know, while MoveOn and ColorofChange called on their large membership base to circulate it as well. YouTube stats indicate that many viewers are finding the clip from links on Obama's site, in addition to general interest news sites like the Huffington Post and Crooks & Liars.

                             -------------BREAKING------------- ---

Andrew Sullivan at Atlantic Online has called it.

The Swiftboating of Barack Obama has started.

Apparently the guy behind it is Lee Habeeb.

I have done some checking on him and he is a arab christian connected to right wing talk shows.

I'm listing a link to Andrew Sullivan's blog that references who has started it today:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/th e_daily_dish/2008/03/the-swift-boati.htm l

Rather the incendiary video -- which also includes footage of Malcolm X, the U.S. Olympians who raised their hand in the black power salute and the song "Fight the Power" -- is in part the amateur work of Lee Habeeb.
A co-founder and former producer of the Laura Ingraham Show, Habeeb is the director of strategic content at Salem Radio Network, the conservative talk radio powerhouse that airs programs hosted by figures such as Bill Bennett and Hugh Hewitt.

As Democrats we must strongly unite in this moment to defeat the swiftboat of one of our own.

Action Required-

Send this link to everyone you know.

Do research on the people concerned.

If you have information on them, then post it here.

I would like to understand this whole Wright thing.

I would like to understand it, as if from the perspective of a campaign dynamic.

Not that I think anything bad, but the 'why's of it.

Why did the campaign not denounce Wright last year when it launched the campaign.

Why didn't Obama make a statement of it on record. So everyone knew where he stood on it.

There is not a shadow on mind, Obama knew what Wright was saying and getting upto. So therefor, how could he have let him anywhere near his campaign.

Why does he feel he owes to this man.

What was the internal dynamics on this. Why did someone as seasoned as David Axelrod is and trained on the Chicago ''school of politics'' let this issue go.

Do you think he took it to Obama or Michelle and that they over-ruled him?

We heard a lot on Barack and Wright. What about Michelle. What has been her role?

Out of so many staff members and 'strategists' why did no one foresee the coming trainwreck that is Wright.

Did they really expect that no-one would notice or would ignore it.

I'm partisan towards Obama. So my diary maybe tilted towards that.
Please give reasoned response and not shrill ones as otherwise it serves no purpose.

Well first of all she is a insult to women.
Because she never would be here today if she wasn't married to the President.
She is where she is today due to his coattails.
Secondly, she bargained with Bill. Instead of leaving him after the Lewisnsky she sought his 100% attention to grab a senate seat in a state she had no ties too. Using that as nothing but a springboard to being president. She is not a self made women.

No dear.

I'm not alone in my assessment.

Feminist Icons wade in:

Germaine Greer (Author of the landmark book The Female Enuch) on Hillary-

"I can't see that Hillary would appeal to feminists because, why is she there? She is there because she is Bill's wife, and it's a bit useless to pretend, `Oh, it's because of her wonderful job as a senator,'"

On her achievment's-

"I just don't think it's true. When she had a big job in government, she blew it," said the British-based Greer, referring to Hillary Clinton's work on health issues during her husband's administration.

Lastly she ends:

The pair (Bill & Hillary Clinton) enjoyed a "confederacy" or business partnership, rather than an emotional relationship.

"They give me the creeps, from that point of view,"

Camilia Paglia on Hillary-

''Hillary's feckless, loutish brothers (who are kept at arm's length by her operation) took the brunt of Hugh Rodham's abuse in their genteel but claustrophobic home. Hillary is the barracuda who fought for dominance at their expense. Flashes of that ruthless old family drama have come out repeatedly in this campaign, as when Hillary could barely conceal her sneers at her fellow debaters onstage -- the wimpy, cringing brothers at the dinner table''.

Her hatred of men:

''Hillary's willingness to tolerate Bill's compulsive philandering is a function of her general contempt for men. She distrusts them and feels morally superior to them''.

In Wikipedia on the article ''HillaryLand'' which I read. I found this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillaryland

Only one of her 14 closet advisors are men. All are women.

Camilia Paglia on this intersection again-

''It's no coincidence that Hillary's staff has always consisted mostly of adoring women, with nerdy or geeky guys forming an adjunct brain trust. Hillary's rumored hostility to uniformed military men and some Secret Service agents early in the first Clinton presidency probably belongs to this pattern''.

She savages her here:

''But Hillary herself, with her thin, spotty record, tangled psychological baggage, and maundering blowhard of a husband, is also a mighty big roll of the dice. She is a brittle, relentless manipulator with few stable core values who shuffles through useful personalities like a card shark ("Cue the tears!"). Forget all her little gold crosses: Hillary's real god is political expediency. Do Americans truly want this hard-bitten Machiavellian back in the White House? Day one will just be more of the same''.

Hillary you don't fool me. I made it own my own. Not you.

So where her 'experience' comes from; if she was never at the White House during key moments.

Here is a excerpt of a piece in the The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar /19/hillaryclinton.uselections20081

On the day that dozens of US cruise missiles rained down on Serbia in an attempt to punish Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for the country's onslaught against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo, first lady Hillary Clinton was far from the White House war room: instead she was touring ancient Egyptian ruins, including King Tut's tomb and the temple of Hatshepsut. And on the day before the signing of the Good Friday agreement in Belfast she was at an event called "Hats on for Bella" in Washington.

In her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton has touted her experience in the Clinton White House as preparation to lead the nation in a time of crisis. "Ready on day one" has been her slogan.

But an initial reading of some of the more than 11,000 pages of Clinton's schedules from her days as first lady, released today by the National Archives and the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library, shows that she was often far from the site of decision-making during some of the most pivotal events of Bill Clinton's presidency.

Clinton, who was an accomplished attorney and first lady of Arkansas before moving to the White House, frequently claims more than 30 years experience in public life, contrasting herself with Barack Obama's slimmer resume - he served several years in the Illinois legislature and was elected to the US Senate in 2004.

The Clinton campaign claimed on Wednesday that the release of the papers would show Clinton to have been an influential advocate at home and around the world on behalf of the US. But the documents from her office in the White House threaten to undermine her claim to have played a major role in Clinton's foreign policy decisions.

For instance, Clinton has said she helped negotiate the April 1998 Good Friday agreement between warring factions in Northern Ireland. But while Catholic and Protestant figures hashed out last-minute details of a power-sharing agreement in Belfast, Clinton was at the National Press Club in Washington at a party honouring Bella Abzug, a congresswoman from New York City who had died recently. While President Clinton phoned major participants in the peace talks, she met with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and joined a farewell party for Democratic operative Karen Finney. On the day the agreement was actually signed, she met with Philippine first lady Amelita Ramos.

When Nato launched air strikes against Serbia in an attempt to punish Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for the country's onslaught against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo, Clinton toured ancient Egyptian ruins, including King Tut's tomb and the temple of Hatshepsut. She dined at the Temple of Luxor, and stayed overnight at the Sofitel Winter Palace Hotel there.

There are other key foreign policy dates when the record is not so clear: on the day the presidents of three Balkan states signed a peace agreement in Dayton, Ohio, in November 1995, ending years of ethnic violence in the former Yugoslavia, Clinton's file lists no public schedule for that day, but indicates she was in Washington.

The documents' release on Wednesday came in response to a conservative organisation's freedom of information request and subsequent lawsuit. The records include schedules from nearly 3,000 days Clinton was in the White House, and detail meetings, trips, speaking engagements and social activities.

Bruce Lindsey, a Little Rock attorney and long time Clinton confidant, vetted the pages prior their release. He and national archives staff checked the documents for information sensitive to national security and law enforcement matters.

Nearly a third of the pages have redactions, most of which the archives said were made to protect the privacy of Clinton's associates. The redacted material includes home addresses, telephone numbers and social security numbers, the archives said.

Christopher Farrell, director of investigations and research with Judicial Watch, the organisation behind the two-year-long legal effort to win the documents' release, said he doesn't anticipate finding any "smoking gun" within the reams of pages.

He said Lindsey "has enormous discretion" to redact information potentially damaging to Clinton's White House bid. "My expectations are quite low."

Hillary Clinton was present in the White House, however, for at least one significant event of the Clinton presidency. On November 15 1995, when President Clinton is said to have begun his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, she was in the White House, according to her schedule.