Don't watch the speech, just read my summary!  Or if you must, here you go....

"What we need now is not a leader to assure us of our greatness, but one who will challenge us to reassert it."  That is the pull quote on the cover of Esquire Magazine for June's issue, along with a photograph of our man Barack.  Follow me below the fold to see a cynical man's take on the aching need in our country for Obama's leadership.

This is a leading headline on Yahoo.com right now:   Economists slam McCain and Clinton's gas tax holiday proposal.

Follow me below the fold for choice excerpts....

The Colbert Report is going on the road, this time to Philadelphia to cover the Democratic Primary. Whenever Colbert goes on the road, he does a fundraiser to help the local community.  See me on the flip to learn how you can help bring funds to PA schools and positive spin to Obama, all at the same time!

Not much of a substantive diary, but it looks like we're getting a do-over in Michigan, on June 3rd.

Will this help Hillary?  or Obama?  Will the whole thing (oh please God please please please) be wrapped up by then, such that their delegates won't matter that much anyway?

I would say that The Daily Show holds the title of MVP in the game of shining a light on the seedy underbelly of crazy wingnuttery.  Here's Jon and the gang's latest, from the December 12th edition of TDS:

Ahhh, we're finally getting closer to the real reasons underlying the Republican assault on women's rights and contraception:  it's that abortion prevents the birth of cheap labor!

But that's not all!  By not having babies, we women are causing the decline and fall of western civilization!

More on the flip...

These thoughts have been swirling around my head for the past several months.

This is not an entry into the current "is DailyKos a sexist environment or not?" flamewar, but rather, a summary of reasons why we Democrats really need to focus on the women's vote, if we are to succeed both in national and state-wide contests in the future.

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John Gibson is an idiot, AND an asshole.

Here's the money quote:  

More fabulous lunacy after the jump:

Check it out:

SpeakSpeak.org story

Nashua Advocate has the whole story

The net-net?  It's Brent Bozell's Cybercast News Service that will be the GOPUSA's preferred news source.  And furthermore, they've been accused of google-bombing in order to keep their version of the GG story in prominent play.

Here's what was in my daily e-mail from the producers at Nightline:

IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM, BLOG 'EM
March 8, 2005    

Got something to say? Got access to the Internet? You're one step away from being a blogger. And these days, bloggers are having an affect on politics, news, on everything, really. And blogs are changing the way we do news. There's no doubt about it.

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I'm sure all of us on DKos feel that one of the greatest things about our country is the freedom we have to express ourselves--in print, on the "internets," by screaming at a protest march, whatever.  Freedom of speech is one of the most sacred rights we hold.  Unfortunately, this freedom is under serious attack, especially on our college campuses.  Here's three examples of attempts to quash academic freedom; it's hard to believe these are occurring right here in the good old U. S. of A.

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Ohio Senate Bill 24 should be called Ohio Senate Bill 1984, because the thought police are coming to your campus, and they're going to interfere with your teaching and learning, unless we stop them.

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