That would be Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL): I cried all night. I’m going to be crying for the next four years. So maybe Barack Obama will be bringing people from both sides together.  But wait: The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance. Oops! I think he just lost those New Agers who worship him as a Lightworker. 

Having watched the video briefing from Rick Davis yesterday, I think “strategery” is the correct term, as it was fairly long on spin and fairly implicit on strategy.  Marc Ambinder — who has some screencaps for those who don’t want to sit through the clip — charitably notes that the info is “arranged in a way that might provide some comfort to those who believe that the campaign is listing.”

I denounce myself for having missed this tidbit from Barck Obama’s address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee: Obama, who has been criticized for sometimes not wearing an American-flag pin, wore a pin of both Old Glory and the Star of David on his lapel. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who also addressed the Washington convention, did not. Good thing the folks at MyBO missed this also, as they generally seem

TPM’s Greg Sargent inadvertently blurts out the truth: Now that the Dem primary is officially over, it’s safe for the Obama campaign to let economics adviser Austan Goolsbee (remember NAFTA-gate?) start publicly making the case for Obama’s economic policies. And so, today on a conference call today with reporters, Goolsbee was front and center as a chief surrogate for Obama, who’s battling it out with John McCain today over their

The Wall Street Journal has a piece (nicely paraphrased at the New York Sun for non-subscribers to the WSJ ) on the ties between a prominent adviser to Barack Obama and the CEO of Countrywide Financial Corp., a company at the center of the subprime lending debacle: James Johnson, one of three people tapped by Mr. Obama recently to oversee the search for his running mate, took at least five

The Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt renders a valuable service by wading through last week’s Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report which ostensibly flogs the “Bush Lied” theme, but in fact reports that Pres. Bush’s statements on Iraq’s nuclear weapons program, chemical weapons, biological weapons, production capability and mobile laboratories, weapons of mass destruction overall, ballistic missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, support for terrorist groups other than al-Qaeda were all substantiated by the

Veteran political analyst Stuart Rothenberg agrees with my prior assessments that this year’s electoral map is unlikely to vary much from those of 2000 and 2004, but also notes the danger to Barack Obama of potential defections by downscale, older white voters: Even minimal defections from this group should cause concern among Democratic strategists, since the party has been able to count on this constituency in the past. In 2000,

The meteoric rise of Barack Obama will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.  And it has people trying to better understand The Chicago Way. It brought Andrew Ferguson to explore Hyde Park, which Obama called home for most of adult life (before investing in a property in the Kenwood neighborhood with Tony Rezko). Although Ferguson paints an accurate picture of how isolated Hyde Park