From the Chicago Sun Times - http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/1 124667,CST-NWS-dem25.article

Last night, I was called an 'Uncle Tom' by Emil Jones in the lobby of the hotel, right in front of [Ald.] Freddrenna Lyle and [Ald.] Leslie Hairston and [Ald.] Latasha Thomas," said Cobb, a member of Clinton's Illinois Steering Committee. "I walked over to him and asked him, 'What did you just call me?' "

Cobb has been a high-profile Clinton supporter, and she said she is still paying the price in the African-American community.

"If people are still making digs at the Hillary Clinton people because we supported her, that is not going to bring us on board. It makes us feel as though we're outsiders, and we're Democrats," Cobb said. "The litmus test for being black is [seen as] supporting Barack."

Check this link

In an unusual move, Hillary Clinton's staff is creating a 40-member "whip team" at the Denver Democratic convention to ensure that her supporters don't engage in embarrassing anti-Obama demonstrations during the floor vote on her nomination, according to people familiar with the planning.

The VP announcement is going to be happening before the convention. If Clinton was going to be the VP pick, then there is no way this whip team to control protestors would have been created.

This diary is meant mainly for the low information voters. Others can ignore.

Many low info voters think that majority of Obama's campaign money comes from small donors. This is a clever piece of work by this campaign.
Majority of his donors are small donors, but majority of his money doesn't come from small donors. His campaign says 90% of his donors are small donors. This is true. But 90% of his money doesn't come from small donors. Something like 50% does.

What this means - lets see with an example.
Say he has 10 donations totalling to 3600$.
This may be something like
200$,200$,200$,200$,200$,200$,200$,200$, 200$,1800$

So 90% of his donors donated 200$ or below.
But only 50% of the money is from these small donors

    I want to take this opportunity to speak directly to those of you who oppose my decision to support the Abortion compromise.

   Democracy cannot exist without strong differences. And going forward, some of you may decide that my women's reproductive rights position is a deal breaker. That's ok.  But I think it is worth pointing out that our agreement on the vast majority of issues that matter outweighs the differences we may have on a few issues like the constitution, warrantless wiretapping, telecom immunity, abortion rights, gun rights, separation of church & state, refining the Iraq policy and the death penalty. After all, the choice in this election could not be clearer. You have no option but to vote for me. Ha Ha.

   So I appreciate the feedback through my.barackobama.com, and I look forward to continuing the conversation in the months and years to come. Together, we have a lot of work to do. The work is to make me Supreme Commander, so that I no longer have to pretend to notice your existence & reply to your online petitions & stuff.

Obama's Last Two weeks tracked by Greenwald.

- Supported a Bush Dog over a progressive challenger.

• Announced support for the FISA bill, reversing his original position.
  
• sided with the Scalia/Thomas faction in two highly charged Supreme Court decisions;
  
• Threw Wes Clark under the bus
  
• Threw Moveon.Org under the bus
  
• defended his own patriotism by impugning the patriotism of others.
  
• unveiled plans "to expand President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and -- in a move sure to cause controversy . . . letting religious charities that receive federal funding consider religion in employment decisions,"

This is not a nimble dash to the center. This is a sprint to the right.

Here is the article - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/opinio n/29dowd.html?ref=opinion

She writes

It's hard to fathom why Obama should be mau-maued into paying off the debt that Hillary and Bill accrued attacking and undermining him

What a stupid statement!!
The short answer is another question - "Why should Hillary help Obama get votes from all her supporters who were alienated by Obama & his campaign attacking Hillary & Bill?"

Current diary in question is this - Kudos to Clinton supporters who stayed, with grace.
The premise of the dairy is itself broken - the underlying comment here being that except for a couple of HRC supporters, the other supporters on dailyKos, who either remained behind or left did so - did so disgracefully.
What a bloody patronising diary. Couldn't have been more patronizing if it had been written by Laura Ingraham, instead of MsLaura.

Obama's statement about his now convicted friend, Rezko.
Link here

"This isn't the Tony Rezko I knew," he said, adding that the charges against Rezko "once again shine a spotlight on the need for reform."

That's not the Rev Wright, I knew.
That's not the Pfleger, I knew.
That's not the Auchi, I once toasted to.
That's not the Ayers, I knew.