Obama's campaign

Barack Obama's victory in Mississippi really didn't get much attention. Yesterday morning I went to the New York Times webpage and had to search for the article on the election. The main story on the page was about photos of John Lennon from his "lost weekend" in the mid 1970s, which I found interesting but not really a burning hot news story. Of course, stories about the Spitzer scandal is dominating everything else. Barack can still lock things up with a victory in Pennsylvania. It will be extremely tough but with six weeks to go it's not impossible. He needs to get tough on Clinton. I think pushing for her to release her tax returns is a good way to go. After all he's released his so it seems perfectly reasonable to me. At least, he's never stooped to the sleazy depths of the Clinton campaign. The flap over Geraldine Ferraro is a good contrast between the two campaigns. Her comment that he wouldn't be where he is if he were white is debatable. Given his talent as a politician I think it is conceivable that he would have become a presidential contender regardless of his race. What is clear however is that an even stronger argument could be made that Hillary Clinton is where she is solely due to her gender and to her husbands success. She became partner in a law firm based in a state where her husband was governor. She was first lady due to her husband. Clearly her role as first lady led to her senate senate. The one thing she was put in charge of, healthcare reform, was a total fiasco. It is a testament to the classiness of the Obama campaign that no one closely associated with it has made these obvious points. The two candidates may be relatively close in delegates but one is way ahead in common decency.