Just up on the UK's Daily Telegraph. Toby Harnden, the Telegraph's US Editor, has just reported on his blog that Obama is in negotiations with Hillary, and the talk is of retiring her campaign debt.

As an historian, I find today's so-called scandal about D. A. Pennebaker's film "The War Room" interesting, to say the least. I have no interest in pursuing this in regards to the Obama or Clinton campaign that is going on right now. I am interested, however, in the whatever truth there is in regards to the actual film clip, and the response to it at the time of its release back in 1993.

Here's a great tribute song to Barack Obama by Jamaican reggae artist Cocoa Tea. The 7" vinyl single came out about a week ago and sold out almost immediately.

Caution: This is a very catchy tune and it will get stuck in your head.

Happy Monday to everyone!

Josh Marshall posted this over at Talking Points Memo a few minutes ago. It bears repeating until this blatant smear gets shut down.

"I think pretty much everyone knows now that that picture of Barack Obama with his hands at his sides that's been making the rounds of the right wing sites actually wasn't taking during a recitation of the pledge of allegiance. So why does Tim Russert repeat this canard on national TV?"

I just got back from the town hall meeting with Obama in Erie, Pennsylvania, held at the Penn-State Behrend Campus sports arena. Tickets were sold out early yesterday (they were free of course, but limited to the arena capacity).

Once again Obama's patriotism is being questioned because he doesn't always wear a flag lapel pin. It's frustrating to have to watch this non-issue be brought up over and over again. Do you ever find yourself having ideas, but not the skills to make them real? I'm kinda new to this diary thing, so my apologies if I'm off-base here. Any YouTube wizards out there?

Barack Obama is holding a Town Hall Meeting in Erie, PA, on Friday, April 18th at 10:30am.

Gotta love those Kentucky good ol' boys! As has been pointed out elsewhere today, Northern Kentucky's 4th Congressional District Lincoln Day Dinner, that was held on Saturday night, was full of pot-shots taken at Hillary and Obama.

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Maybe there aren't many Bubbas driving around in pickup trucks with the classic bumper sticker "God, Guns and Guts Made America Free"  where Obama's detractors live, but here in rural Pennsylvania that line may as well replace "e pluribus unum" as the motto on the national currency.