Update: A reader left this comment worth posting: "Hillary is a political succubus. She will suck the energy and will from this party until we are broken and defeated. ... Even if one does not consider the supposedly inflammatory nature of the Wright sermons, she took an opportunity to promote healing or at least thought provoking discussion, and instead parroted a line that even the conservative nominee and the man he defeated has abandoned. ... I have no doubt Hillary would have left her church and the place that introduced her to Jesus because it is abundantly clear that there is no belief, no ethic, no moral, or important relationship she would not gladly sacrifice in order to further her own naked ambition."

Hillary Clinton has gone blind.

Update: See also Obammunists.

While still beaming from the historic win, Wisconsin Obama voters may not know that Joe McCarthy is alive and well in the National Review Online, and digging up Obama dirt (he's not fooling anyone).

Obama's parents of different ethnicities fell in love in the late 1950's, so they must be communist and, gasp!!, Jewish, argues lisa.msm [at] gmail [dot] com.

Right. No wonder Obama did so well at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with all those Jews and communists there (though this does not explain how he took Fond du Lac county).

'Setting the stage, poised for a knockout ... a fading, faltering, broken Hillary Clinton campaign': Everyone has read the ledes reporting on Barack Obama’s landslide win in Wisconsin Tuesday.

One aspect has been overlooked: In a critical dimension, it’s not Clinton or Obama who won or lost.

The people spoke and thus won. And one fact that bears noting is that Hillary Clinton supporters are more idealistic than she is.

In speaking to Clinton supporters the last week, the take-away is that Hillary has the requisite mettle and wisdom to successfully lead this country to social justice.

But Hillary did not speak for these people in her relentlessly negative (and false) ads and mailers that sought merely to stave off the 17-point defeat that she suffered here.

Hillary found out just how repugnant the politics of fear and distortion is among voters, including many of her supporters, who see the democratic process as a means of their deciding their government's policies.

Does Hillary believe that her supporters wish her campaign to assassinate Obama’s character, abilities and commitment? Noone I know was consulted.

Facing days of attacks made by Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign, voters in Wisconsin today are poised to deliver a rebuke to the politics of negativity and distortion, in favor of Sen. Barack Obama’s politics of hope and change.

Gov. Jim Doyle said that Clinton has engaged in “"fear mongering," and for days had nothing on the air except negative ads.

Hillary is desperate, as Wisconsin can send her campaign reeling into Texas and Ohio with an apparently broken message.

So rather than speak about her vision and position, her campaign dumps everything on her opponent from sleazy innuendo to outright lies.

At the same time Clinton seeks to change the rules of the Democratic primary in the middle of the game that she is losing.

As America has learned from experience this last seven years, a campaign that functions with such disdain for the people and the democratic process, governs even worse.

Here's a reassuring bit of news. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that US Atty Stephen Biskupic stands ready to investigate any cases arising from casting votes in tommorow's presidential primary, if someone complains and the Milwaukee Co DA begs out from investigating.

Writes John Diedrich:

U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic said his prosecutors and the FBI will be available to investigate cases if citizens are dissatisfied with the response they get from the city Election Commission, police or local prosecutors.

Bottom line: Clinton bought Bush's war talk, Obama didn't.

Anyone in Wisconsin against the Iraq War?

Prediction is Obama by six to eight points; likely garnering a double figure pledged delegate win.

That's assuming that Obama’s people stay motivated and hit the field hard, a fair assumption.

Good analysis on Kos by Ben Masel.

Update III: Polls: Obama Holds Edge In Wisconsin, Madison-Milwaukee Turn-out Decisive

Update II: TNR: WI, Ohio, Texas Polls Underreporting Obama Strength

Update: Woman flies from LA to Madison to make history and support Obama

Update: CQ Politics’ Four Questions About Wisconsin’s Feb. 19 Primaries

The House of Representatives issued contempt citations for White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers Friday, eliciting howls from House Republicans intent of protecting Bush corruption.

After months of stonewalling the House Judiciary Committee, the White House refused to testify under oath and produce documents about myriad DoJ and White House scandals, essentially flipping off Congress and the American people, bringing about the contempt citations.

Writes Scott Horton at Harper’s Magazine:

(T)he White House took the position that the scope of examination would be narrowly tailored so as to exclude precisely the subject matter of the inquiry: Did White House staffers interfere with prosecutors for partisan political reasons?

Much of what one hears in campaigns is anecdotal.

After hearing something over and over, a pattern emerges. Such is Obama’s appeal to the white male demographic, especially here in Wisconsin.

A source said that two male “red necks” listened to Obama at a Janesville GM plant on Wednesday, and walked away vowing to vote for him. This cross-over appeal looks to deliver a victory to Obama here on Tuesday.

Should that victory be something near 10 points, the talk of a Clinton campaign near death will amplify across the nation.

"If Obama is able to win by double digits, a significant win, it could be a very serious blow to her chances in other states," Feingold said in an interview. "If she keeps it close or by some chance wins, it could be a platform for another revival and be a real boost." (Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Hillary Attacks

Facing a rebuke from Wisconsin voters next Tuesday and the unknown from Texas and Ohio on March 4, Hillary Clinton is desperate and seeking inspiration from Karl Rove to rig a Democratic presidential primary.

“Easy answers elude Mich., Fla. Delegates,” reads a headline this morning, referring to the ongoing flap arising because the DNC and Michigan and Florida last year could not agree on the timing of the states' presidential elections.

Ridiculous. The easy answer is: Don't change the rules in the middle of the game.

As AP writer, Nedra Pickler, explains:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton desperately wants meaningless wins in Florida and Michigan to turn into votes she can count on. It won't be easy with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) rules standing in her way.