Jay Rosen. Public Editor to Bill Keller: “You Haven’t Got it.” Clark Hoyt’s verdict: wrong to run. Mine: “Times editors are extremely smart people prevented by their own codes from thinking politically. Yet those same codes permit intrusions into politics, like the Vicki Iseman story, that require them to think politically or risk terrible missteps.”  The article turns out not to be as bad as all that, though: Jeff [Jarvis]

ABC’s Jake Tapper reports: Appealing to union voters in a dry wall manufacturing plant in this crucial primary state, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Sunday afternoon said that even though he has repeatedly said the passage of NAFTA was bad for the country, he would not try to repeal it. *** He argued arguing that because the trade deal had been passed more than a decade ago, it was entrenched in the

Oh, for crying out loud.  Now the NYT is amplifying the Obama assassination watch meme.  Fine. Embrace the macabre: I am announcing the Obama Murder Pool.  When Obama’s assassinated, who will turn out to have killed him?

Unless you’re CNN, in which case you throw up one of those unscientific online polls on the issue. Meanwhile, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion’s founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father: “A black man with a white mother became a savior to us,” he told the crowd of mostly followers. “A black man with a white mother could turn

and your opportunity to express, in fewer than 500 words, why you don’t care.

So doth the Astronomer looke upon the starres, and by that he seeth set downe what order nature hath taken therein. So doth the Geometritian & Arithmetitian, in their divers sorts of quantities. So doth the Musitians intimes tel you, which by nature agree, which not. The natural Philosopher thereon hath his name, and the morall Philosopher standeth uppon the naturall vertues, vices, or passions of man: and follow nature

The video is at the HuffPo, along with a whole lot of horrified Obamaniacs. Not a bad start, though she might want to crib from the faux ads that have run on Rush Limbaugh’s program.

From William Kern at The Moderate Voice:  One of the most disturbing questions that Barack Obama’s candidacy raises is this: What if he were murdered? If Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination and was gunned down before November, what effect would this have on the presidential race? In this uncomfortable op-ed from Mexico’s Excelsior newspaper, Francisco Martín Moreno outlines what he sees as the danger to the United States and the rest

Dan Gerstein, a Democratic strategist supporting Barack Obama for president, submits a bizzare column to the Politico: Over the last few weeks, the euphoria Democrats felt over the embarrassment of riches we have for presidential candidates has given way to befuddlement over the embarrassment of a process we have for nominating one of them. Can’t tell the difference between (or the rationales for) a caucus and a primary? No worries: Just

Beneath the surface of Barack Obama’s 10-0 run of primary and caucus victories over Hillary Clinton, a counter-current to the tide of Obama-mania has been developing.  It goes back as least as far as Dahlia Lithwick’s “letter from a young, hip, cynical former Obamaniac” in Slate, followed the next day by John Dickerson asking: Isn’t the generation that Obama has so successfully courted usually the first to toss overhyped products, even the overhyped