Once again Obama’s supporters and surrogates are colluding with neoconservative men, namely Bob Novak, the man who exposed Valerie Plame’s identity. I quote:

Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama.

The Democratic front-runner’s wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party’s nomination, but she has been sniping at Clinton since last summer. According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility.

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And I won’t have it! It’s just so mean and so unfair! LOOK at these blog posts, will you????!!!! I’m dividing these posts into the “Ahhhhhhhhhhhh” (Leave him alone, he tired boy!”) and the “Cackling with glee” posts. (I’m collecting so if you spot any, please, please share below in the comments!)

IN THE AHHHHHHHHHHHHH, LEAVE HIM ALONE department:

MARC AMBINDER — he writes for the “let’s be mature and ‘across the aisle’ about this” for latte elites my-magazine’s-way-older-than-your-magazine Atlantic Monthly — and he’s the head of the “YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED FOR LAUGHING” DEPARTMENT:

From The “If McCain Did This” Files Obama, below, is tired, nothing more. … But if John McCain did this — if he mistakenly said he’d visited 57 states — the media would be all up in his grill, accusing him of a senior moment. Just saying….

FROM THE CACKLING WITH JOY DEPARTMENT — NO MATTER HOW YOU SLICE IT OR DICE IT, JUST PLAIN MEAN DEPARTMENT:

CAN HE SPELL “POTATO?” — [OHHHHHH that’s brutal!]

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They are using race by:

• either propelling African Americans to feel that they must vote for him or be accused of betraying their own race
• or playing on white guilt to force well-meaning but naive Democrats into feeling they must vote for him to expiate their ancestors’ past sins.

Now Barack Company Inc. is attacking John McCain by using his age against him, and the McCain campaign is calling him out on it — and in so doing, EXPOSED what the Obama Inc. strategy is ALL ABOUT. GOOD for you, Mark Salter and John McCain:

To: Interested Parties
From: Mark Salter, Senior Advisor
Date: May 8, 2008
Re: Senator Obama’s Attack Today

First, let us be clear about the nature of Senator Obama’s attack today: He used the words ‘losing his bearings’ intentionally, a not particularly clever way of raising John McCain’s age as an issue. This is typical of the Obama style of campaigning.

We have all become familiar with Senator Obama’s new brand of politics. First, you demand civility from your opponent, then you attack him, distort his record and send out surrogates to question his integrity. It is called hypocrisy, and it is the oldest kind of politics there is. …

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