By L.C. Johnson (bio/blog)

What's wrong with this picture?  Barack Obama runs as the "outsider" fighting against the "special" interests.  Barack claims:

"I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists -- and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not get a job in my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president."

-- Barack Obama, Speech in Des Moines, IA, November 10, 2007

Okay.  Then if he is the candidate of change fighting Washington, why did a majority of the Washington, DC and the government employees in the surrounding suburbs and those pesky lobbyists and their spouses and employees, vote for Barack?  You see, I believe that people act in their own interest.  So, when the folks who live inside the beltway, vote in large measure for Barack, then maybe he is not what he claims to be.

The Obama cult is a phenomenom.  A weird phenomenom.  People are enthralled with the idea of Obama and know nothing about his past, his performance, and the scandals that will bring him down.  And, smack dab in the middle of the enablers, are most of the TV and print journalists.  Very few are writing or reporting the kind of tough stories they unleash on Hillary on a regular basis.