Are these photo-shopped? I don't think so. Nothing like gas prices to make politicians act silly. Still got his back, but this is a little embarrassing.

Quoted: Obama is such a snob about motorcars that he didn't know the car had to BE THERE for him to fill it up. He has never driven a car in his life. He rides a velvet-seated flying pineapple that runs on Dom Perignon champagne fuel.

We know him too! Congrats, John. They did a very nice job with this.

Quoted: Hard at work in the national campaign headquarters of Barack Obama, John Zwier '05 still believes God is not a Republican—or a Democrat.

Let's hope Pennsylvania is close and that Hillary withdraws with grace. If she does, she might just end up on the ticket after all.

Quoted: Fifty-one percent negatives among white voters, no cash — and now a lead in Pennsylvania that has dwindled to five points: They don’t come any more stalwart than Hillary Clinton, but the next three weeks are going to be one long death march.

The good news:
Quoted: [S]trictly by the book, Obama is ahead on all convention-bound delegates awarded thus far in primaries and caucuses.

But:
Quoted: Simple delegate-counting is for pathetic nerds.

When it looked like Obama was pulling away, some friend and adviser of Hillary's commented forlornly that an easy win for Obama would be bad for the party. What she was really hinting at was that Obama might have some [white-lady] skeletons in his closet that the Republicans would find if he cruised in the primary. Sinister stuff that apparently worked.

But hopefully she's right that this hard-fought campaign will steel the nominee for the general election. It's certainly not over.

Nah.

Quoted: Barack Obama is improving rapidly as a presidential candidate. His showing at the Service Employees International Union's spring health-care forum was so bad, an Obama adviser labeled it a "searing experience." But he was dazzling at an SEIU forum on Monday.

Quoted: "We fall madly in love with him, now we have to find his clay feet," said Susan Rasky, a senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at University of California at Berkeley. "It's part of the campaign process: Enthusiasm at the front end, ripping apart at the back end - and hopefully in between there will be some decent analysis."

Do you see any downside to this, John - or anyone else? Jaded and cynical yet? I prefer this form of "bandwagon hopping" to a lot of its other forms, e.g., on the issues.

Quoted: Barack Obama looks to be diving into this whole "Web 2.0" thing head first.

I'd been waiting for this profile, and it doesn't disappoint.

Might be fun to compare to my dot last week on Bush's days at the Harvard Business School.

Quoted: Barack Obama arrived at Harvard as an unknown; by the time he left, he had become a political sensation.

Quoted: People had a way of hearing what they wanted in Mr. Obama’s words.

Fascinating.

Quoted: CHICAGO -- Looking around at the overwhelmingly white audience that was applauding Sen. Barack Obama's luncheon speech on Iraq at a downtown hotel recently, the Rev. B. Herbert Martin expressed both satisfaction and concern.