So I know I'm older than many on this board, but as Obama's swipe at Hillary Clinton sunk in:

“She knows better. She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen. She, how she values the Second Amendment, she’s talking like she is Annie Oakley. Hillary Clinton is out there like she’s out in the duck blind every Sunday. She’s packing a six shooter. Come on. She knows better.

I began to think about that famous 1950s musical about the relationship of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. I don't know if Obama is this savvy or maybe it's one of his staff people, but once again, he's subtly nailed Hillary's personality.

There's a fascinating entry just posted on the L.A. Times blog quoting Barack Obama's view of the O.J. trial.  As I'm sure many of you noted during his speech on race on Tuesday, Obama referred to the way in which the country handled race as "spectacle" during the O.J. trial. Obama elaborated on his perspective during his follow-up interview on Nightline Tuesday night.

Frank Rich has much to say in today's NYT about the take-no-prisoners approach to campaigning of the Clinton team. (You can read the whole article here). I'm sure the article will be praised as supremely insightful by Obama supporters and condemned as a piece of crap by folks in the Clinton camp.

In passing Rich comments on a profoundly damaging and racially divisive theme about the relationship between Blacks and Hispanics  that should be condemned by all of us regardless of which candidate we support

Last month a Hispanic pollster employed by the Clinton campaign pitted the two groups against each other by telling The New Yorker that Hispanic voters have “not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates.” Mrs. Clinton then seconded the motion by telling Tim Russert in a debate that her pollster was “making a historical statement.”

It wasn’t an accurate statement, historical or otherwise. It was a lie, and a bigoted lie at that, given that it branded Hispanics, a group as heterogeneous as any other, as monolithic racists.

I was reading Adam Nagourney's interesting article about HRC's campaign efforts in Iowa. (The article can be found here Feeling Heat Clinton Tries Iowa Up Close) I ran across the following quote from Hillary:

“I always thought that Iowa would be a challenge,” she said, “and I’m personally really pleased with how far I’ve come, never having done this with Bill. I’ve really been working to understand what was necessary to run a competitive campaign.”

When she says "never having done this with Bill" what she means is that Bill Clinton never contested the Iowa caucus so Hillary never had experience working on his campaign there.

This reminded me of an important but little commented-upon similarity between HRC's political experience and GWB's.

I'm thinking that many Daily Kos subscribers do not regularly read the Chronicle of Higher Education so I wanted to point out this wonderful detailed article about John Edward's higher education initiatives. The entire article can be found here:

Edwards Taps His Working-Class Childhood to Focus on Issues of Opportunity . . . but unfortunately  you need a subscription to access it online.

I sent the following letter to the NYT this morning:

I don't know about the rest of you, but I think this idea that Bush has a divine right to rule this country is profoundly disturbing. I would love it if the press actually reported on this . . .

Does Bush actually think he is Christ?
Or do his minions simply manipulate fundamentalist voters with messianic themes?

Either way, this should be a huge campaign issue. I wish we had the power to make it one.

I have a question that I think the folks on this blog can answer. Like a lot of you, I've made many more and much larger contributions this political season than I ever could have imagined. It all started with Howard Dean - to whom I contributed close to $1,000 all told (I really can't believe that, but it's true). Since then I have given sums to John Kerry, the DNC,  various of the KOS congressional picks, as well as Move-On.org.

So here's the question - we have three weeks left. I can probably cough up about $200 more (without my wife going absolutely ballistic). Where do you suggest I put this money to get maximum impact? Should I just send it to the DNC? Or perhaps Move-On for one of their ad campaigns? Who is the most effective and efficient deployer of policial contributions? All suggestions will be greatly appreciated.