Yesterday's Obama News

Not that was a LOT of Obama news yesterday. But I was in Indianapolis almost all of yesterday and did not get this posted. I did not get back till well after the debate started and so saw very little of that. What I did see did not change my mind but convinced even more that Obama is about something more than selling a laundry list of specific proposals. It came during the health care issue with Clinton rattling off her list of specifics as if she were hawking a new car. I imagined how that would play next year - unless we change the broader dialog as Obama suggests, it will be mired in politicians trying to score soundbites. Yeah, I think the guy has a whole more substance than what we have been told but I think it is there to see in how he has organized his campaign compared with Clinton's organization.

Now for yesterday's news today!

Obama wins Teamsters endorsement; Clinton losing edge among women :

"Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign received more good news Wednesday with the endorsement by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters a day after his decisive victories over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Wisconsin primary and Hawaii caucuses."

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The Teamsters were the fifth national union to endorse Obama and the third major union in a week. Last week, he was endorsed by the Service Employees International Union and the United Food and Commercial Workers union representing supermarket and food processing employees.

The Change to Win federation of unions, which includes the Teamsters and other two unions, also may endorse Obama as soon as Thursday.

That shift in union sentiments was evident in the Wisconsin primary, where Obama won among union households by 53 percent to 44 percent.

In Playing the 'Fair' Card, does George Will really compare Obama to Lincoln? More importantly, does not Mr. Will compare George W. Bush to James Buchanan?

The president who came to office with the most glittering array of experiences had served 10 years in the House of Representatives, then became minister to Russia, then served 10 years in the Senate, then four years as secretary of state (during a war that enlarged the nation by 33 percent), then was minister to Britain. Then, in 1856, James Buchanan was elected president and in just one term secured a strong claim to being ranked as America's worst president. Abraham Lincoln, the inexperienced former one-term congressman, had an easy act to follow.