“Let’s be clear - “Brutha” Barry O is light-skinned, and is therefore preferred by the blue-eyed devils whose blood infects him.”

I am so envious. Sepoy at Chapati Mystery simply attracts a higher class of nutjob than the average bloke.

(via Larison)

http://tinyurl.com/67vmwa

It should be noted of course that Obama personally called both women to apologize.

“We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception,” Obama said to the Apostolic Church of God church in Chicago, “What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child – any fool can have a child, that doesn’t make you a father – it’s the courage to raise one that makes you a father.”

The Illinois senator said that too many fathers in the African American community are MIA in their families – acting like boys rather than men – and the foundations of the family and the community has suffered. Obama – himself a father of two – laid out three areas where fathers must parent better: by setting high expectations for their children, instilling the value of empathy, and passing on the value of hope.

However, Tariq Nelson is skeptical, pointing out that there’s not much apart from speeches that Obama can actually do personally about the problem of absentee fathers. Still, I think it is worth something that he is using the immensely powerful bully pulpit that he has, to make the case. A young African American male, growing up without positive male role models at home, might just hear what Obama is saying and take it to heart. Even a few words, if spoken early enough, can move mountains.

[Bill Clinton] boiled with resentment that a candidate with as little experience as [Barack] Obama was given what he considered a free pass by the news media. Yet his tone struck some as dismissive. When Mr. Clinton referred publicly to Mr. Obama as a “kid,” Representative James E. Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina, recalled in an interview that a fellow black congressman said, “I don’t know why he didn’t just call him ‘boy’ and get it over with.”

http://tinyurl.com/4rqyp5

TIME’s Middle East blog, which unlike RCP is a serious policy analysis outlet, has much more detail on the respective positions of McCain and Obama towards Israel and Iran.

http://tinyurl.com/5652xz

Luttwak should have no credibility left to speak on such matters.

(Via AE.)

Now Obama must contend with an endorsement from Fidel.

That’s Florida ruled out, right?

http://tinyurl.com/6apfxw

Democracy Now has an hour-long interview with Yee as well. (via Open Left)

Carmen Silliman has collected a sheaf of poisonous e-mails that have flowed into her in-box. “We do not need a Muslim to lead the good ole USA,” reads one. Obama is, in fact, a Christian.

Neil Gillies, an Obama supporter who runs a local environmental nonprofit group, glumly recounted the gibes that his wife, a schoolteacher, hears regularly from her students. “They’re convinced [Obama] is a Muslim, a terrorist, a guy who’s coming to take away their guns,” Gillies said. “It’s just sad.”

via Larison.

A disturbing anecdote from the campaign trail in Indiana:

In a restaurant in Greenwood on Tuesday, Obama approached an older white guy who waved him off, muttering afterwards to a reporter: “I can’t stand him. He’s a Muslim. He’s not even pro-American as far as I’m concerned.”

http://tinyurl.com/4zocqs