Yeah, but DannyC, a lot of us are quite weary of Obama the Victim Candidate too.

He is the "victim" of Clintons being mean/unfair.

Welcome to Politics 101--if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

He is the "victim" of race baiting.

Welcome to Politics 102--if you can't beat the politicos, pundits, media whores, and right wing hate machine, we don't want you as the "first" president of anything.

Now he is "victim" of Bush/Cheney/Rove dirty tricks.

Welcome back to Politics 101--and we're sorry you flunked 102, and had to take 101 over again. This shit has been going on forever--if you think it is bad now, you should have seen what it was like when J. Edgar was at FBI & Nixon had the White House--this is tame by comparison.

And finally, even though one of Obama's main campaign themes is that he isn't about "politics as usual", some of us have noticed Obama & his campaign staffers playing politics as usual vis a vis Clinton especially.

Like that punch in the nose he gave Geraldine Ferraro & his grandma--both functioned as subtle, substitute for Clinton white women punching bags for Obama in that uplifting, but kinda sexist speech he gave the other day...