Regarding Senator Obama's speech, and travails for the last two weeks:
1. Because the News Media went crazy on the Rev. Wright issue, everybody now knows he is a Christian and the "Muslim whisper campaign" has been stopped or at the very least muted.

2. The Media coverage of his REv. Wright issue and his speech has given him the national attention that he could never have afforded to buy, if the speech works out for him, it could marginalize Senator Clinton's campaign, and score a serious blow to McCain's. If it doesn't work out he will be back to where he was pre Rev. Wright support.

3. The Media has now themselves been muted on their endless loop of Rev. Wright clips, whenever they try to run it they will need to refer to Senator Obama's speech, which is an Obama plus.

4. The Obama narrative has been changed from Senator Obama being associated with and condoning an anti-American racist, to Senator Obama giving the second greatest speech on race behind MLK.

5. Pennsylvania is very unimportant to the race, as it would not change anything, present polls has Obama at 44% of the vote, and that would be all he needs to not lose. What they both need are Super-Delegates.

IMHO, Senator Obama has now "Ferraro luckily" established himself as the acknowledged leader/front-runner and future Democratic Nominee, (Out of adversity comes opportunity)and as such will more attractive to the Super-Delegates, thus destroying the only possibility Senator Clinton had of gaining the nomination.

i wish i had your optimism TT. various media outlets have reported BO has dropped in polls.

watching the comedy team of Carville and Matalin on Leno last night, it seems that many in the media are determined to spin BO's speech in an unfavorable light. Carville said the most asinine thing last night, insinuating that BO's speech was all about him and people have more important things to worry about like their war wounded.

ugh!

here's hoping you're right, though.

at the same debate where HC said she would make her schedule available, she said she would make her and Bill's tax returns available.

has that happened? noooooo.

tax return wasn't an issue for me until she started obfuscating when asked about it. make no mistake: the chick has balls.

Soul, Those media houses are spinning, the facts are,there are no new polls since his speech:
1. Obama is still four percentage points above Clinton among Democrats.
2. He has fallen be below Clinton as the person able to beat McCain, but still two percentage points ahead of McCain.
3. the lastest Rasmussen polls states that 56% of all likely voters (Dems and Repubs) would hesitate to vote for him because of Rev. Wright, so there is still the 44% of all (Dems and Repubs) who would vote for him. (just to point out the silliness of these polls)

all of the above polls were taken during the Rev. Wright endless media loop, we have to wait until after this weekend when Americans digest the Obama speech and then read those polls.