Throwing Stones from a glass house…

Workout notes 2000 yard swim; 500 free, then 5 x (100 paddle, 100 IM, 100 free); last “IM” was fly with fins. Then 12.5 miles on the bike (45 minutes) then 3 mile run. Mile 1 was on the ‘mill and done slowly; I needed some water. Then 2 more miles on the track; the last being 8:55 (I know, laughably slow) for 19:17.

Politics
One reason Obama is not catching up as rapidly as I would like: I think that this video makes a good case for Obama. But I doubt that it would convince a majority of Democratic primary voters:

But it shows how many Obama supporters see it.

Clinton’s tactics against Obama: will they backfire? Hat tip to Travis Stark at the Daily Kos.

Politics, as Bill Clinton said Tuesday in South Carolina, is “a contact sport.” And while Barack Obama is trying hard to shed his professorial and all-too-Stevensonian air, he’s just not a good enough eye-gouger at the line of scrimmage, especially with two people teaming up against him.

Obama’s best hope is that Democratic voters aren’t as dumb as Hillary and Bill Clinton think they are. The outcome of the primaries depends on whether, amid their busy lives, voters can get a general fix on who is more often telling the truth about the barrage of charges and countercharges. [...]

This is ironic, because the way Bill Clinton survived impeachment was by betting on the intelligence of the American public. Now he’s betting against it.

In South Carolina, Hillary is airing a radio ad that goes back to a theme she pushed in the debate there Monday night: that Obama liked Republican ideas. As Obama pointed out in his response ad, this is “demonstrably false,” as referees from ABC News to the Washington Post to factcheck.org have established. (The Obama response ad ends with a new tag line that Hillary will “say anything and change nothing.”)

The Republican story goes back to an interview Obama did with a Nevada newspaper in which he praised the way Ronald Reagan communicated with the public and changed “the trajectory of American politics.” He added that, unfortunately, the Republicans had some fresher ideas than the Democrats in recent decades.

These are completely ordinary comments. In fact, as Obama pointed out in the Myrtle Beach debate, Hillary is considerably more effusive about Reagan in Tom Brokaw’s new book, “Boom.” Bill has also made many statements over the years that were much more complimentary toward Reagan. Nobody paying attention thinks either Obama or the Clintons likes Reagan’s right-wing politics. [...]
I’m all for aggressive, even negative, campaigning, but I’m not so sure this patronizing approach will work for Hillary down the stretch. Let’s take the battle in New Jersey, a delegate-rich state that votes on Feb. 5. Hillary will almost certainly win there, in her backyard, but the question is by how much. New Jersey delegates are awarded proportionally, which means that if Obama can come within five or ten points, he’s ahead of the game in the national delegate hunt.

As the Reagan ad aired in South Carolina, Hillary was campaigning in New Jersey. That gave the Obama campaign an excuse to assemble a rapid response team to create a little backlash in the Garden State.

Cory Booker, the inspiring mayor of Newark, is especially popular with white liberals in the suburbs. Here’s what he said about the Clinton ads, beyond calling them “outrageous” and “dishonest”[...]

Throwing Stones But living in a Glass House

Remember the debate and Clinton throwing mud at Obama over his alleged relationship to Rezko? (Note Clinton’s -smear- lie about Obama “liking Republican ideas”, and note how she misleads about Obama agreeing with Bush; he didn’t but..)

Well this photo showed up in today’s morning news show:

That is Rezko with the Clintons.

About Obama and Rezko, Obama has been fully vetted by the Illinois press.

Hat tip to aaraujo at the Daily Kos.