Chicago Daily Observer

The Sun-Times headline on their web site Obama index page (there is no Clinton or McCain index, by the way) has Sen Obama’s resounding defeat in Puerto Rico titled

Then, clicking through gets us to a more measured headline

Which upon further reading, “showed Clinton with 261,916 votes, or 68 percent, to Obama’s 120,929, or 32 percent” which is a massive defeat, in a State where some predicted Obama to win.

There were probably 100 ways to read the Clinton landslide in Puerto Rico. The Sun-Times took a partisan viewpoint, threw out the 99 obvious ways of looking at the results, and chose the one which fits their one-sided political leaning.

We offer a full round of applause to such a throwback to a more deliberate time when journalists and editors ... Read More...

Sen. Hillary Clinton has won Puerto Rico’s Democratic primary by a wide margin, CNN projects, giving her the larger share of the territory’s 55 delegates. She swept Sen. Barack Obama in every major demographic group, including groups he generally does well in, such as younger voters and higher income voters, exit polls suggest.

Barack Obama’s pastor buddies don’t frighten me as much as his church-going brethren.

You have to expect that the bizarre likes of Michael Pfleger and Jeremiah Wright would ooze to the surface in any number of organizations or institutions—right or left, Republican or Democratic. But the multitude gathered in what is supposed to be a temple of God, cheering on the racist slobbering of the two “reverends’” is scary.

Cheering is too mild a word. Look at the video of Pfleger’s rant against Hilary Clinton; notice the guys in the background. They’re on their feet, clapping, laughing and cheering. One is nearly doubled over in laughter. Broader shots of the crowds show that while some people are sitting quietly—in disapproval, I hope—there also was widespread affirmation of both Pfleger’s and Wright’s “sermons.”

They were eating it up.

God damn America. White people think they’re entitled to everything. They won’t tolerate ... Read More...

Carol Marin weepily tells us in the Sun-Times that the worst part of Fr. Pfleger’s spiteful rant at Trinity United Church was that it might hurt Obama’s campaign. Not that he is generally wrong, or vile, or speaks hatefully from the Pulpit. The real problem is that people may not vote for Obama.

Mark Brown, also in the Sun-Times, makes a more valid point stating that: