the outpouring of sympathy to senator kennedy is expected, and shared by me.

however, the lubricating bodily fluids being exuded, well, the contrast to the comments and behavior of the strongly obama favoring liberal blogoshpere as opposed to the venom and vileness directed at the clintons, and in part to those of us who supported hillary, it is striking.

ted kennedy was and is a lion for liberal causes...he is representative of an elite family....ok, fine....God bless him.

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IMO, street money may have caused Sen. Obama to lose the PA primary by double digits. In a comment in one of the dairies, I posited that when new politics meet old politics there need to be a compromise. Philly is an old machine town with ward leaders who will ferociously assist their candidate to get out the votes, but they need what is called "street money" to help defray costs for lunch, gas and other incidental expenses.

While watching the Chris Matthews show, which I do very infrequently these days, there were two radio talk show hosts, one black and one white who agreed that street money could have helped Sen. Obama win the primary or at least held Hillary's win to a smaller margin. My sense is that Sen. Clinton paid "street money" although it was not explicitly stated.

Sen. Obama refused to pay street money in South Carolina and it did not hurt him there, but Philly is a different city. Obama earned 65% of the vote in the city, but although turnout was good there, it was not a record. The pundits said Obama needed at least 70% of the black vote, plus he needed to win the Philly suburbs, but he also failed to do that.

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