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Barack Obama, a month ago: Democratic Party savior. Cool, smart, black, great personal story. Barack Obama, this week: All flash, no substance. Fast and loose with facts, Hillary will pummel him. After a Las Vegas health care forum last week, Obama was deemed a disappointment by a national magazine writer, and the theme multiplied: Los Angeles Times, The Politico, the Associated Press, CNN. The chattering herd loves a narrative, and this year, just as in past presidential years, the media are moving like a pack, hunting for their beloved conventional wisdom. The names are unfamiliar to most Americans - Klein,...

Presidential Hopeful Says an 'Independent Inquiry Is Needed' into Durham, N.C., District Attorney Mike Nifong's Conduct By LARA SETRAKIAN ABC News Law & Justice Unit March 25, 2007 — - Another voice has joined the call for a federal investigation into the handling of the Duke Lacrosse case -- this one with the punch of presidential politics. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in a written response to a constituent, said that an "independent inquiry is needed" into the conduct of Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong. Nifong prosecuted and led the investigation into the alleged sexual assault of an exotic dancer at...

RUSH: There's a fascinating story in the LA Times today. Get this headline. Who wrote this? David Ehrenstein is his name. He's LA-based, and "writes about Hollywood and politics." The headline of his column: "Obama, the 'Magic Negro.'" ...But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination -- the 'Magic Negro.' The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. 'He has no past, he...

Barack Attack Chicago Democrats, Cranked by Money, Daley Machine, Seem to Be Weirdly United in Getting Obama Going: ‘It’s a Contact Sport, and He Understands How to Play’By: Jason HorowitzDate: 3/26/2007 Page: 1 CHICAGO—The field-operations office for Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign is cramped into a small corner room overlooking downtown Chicago and the river that is dyed green for St. Patrick’s Day. The walls are papered in maps and yellow strips of oversized legal pads, one of which listed more than 20 states.   “All these states are thinking of moving up early,” said Temo Figueroa, the campaign’s national...

AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. It's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — "Magic Negro." The Magic Negro, a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. "He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist," reads the description on Wikipedia http://en.-wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro . He's there to assuage white...