Okay, enough smart-assery. Look, apparently nobody told you, but I'll let you in on a little secret: being non-white doesn't shield you from critcism; it lets you in for more criticism. Hence the old "joke" "What do you call a black man with a JD from Harvard?" "A nigger."

Do you really think that if Senator Obama were Senator O'Hara who had come out of *nowhere* to unseat a front-running candidate with international name-recognition in one of the two political families that had ruled a nation for the past twenty years; who was ahead in the popular vote; ahead in pledged delegates; had won more primaries and caucuses; had gotten over a MILLION Americans to send him their hard-earned money; had inspired a nation so much that the freakin' Grateful Dead came back together and did a reunion concert on his behalf; do you think ANYONE would be questioning that guy's right to the nomination?

If he were Sen. O'Hara, you might not have gone for the head-fake, for example, and known or looked up the fact that he'd been speaking out against this war consistently since President Bush first began floating it as a possibility. He was right and our involvement there DOES distract us from going after al Qaeda operatives who're holed up in Pakistan where the Pakistani government seems not to be able to reach them. (And, oh, didn't we send some airstrikes in there just a couple of weeks ago and kill al Qaeda's number three guy?)

I don't know why you haven't heard what you didn't hear. Maybe you weren't paying attention.