New Republic-- The Message Keeper:
How David Axelrod learned to conquer race

"... The self-described "keeper of the message" for Obama's presidential bid has taken the lessons he learned from his mayoral and gubernatorial campaigns and made them cohere into something that approaches a unified theory of how to elect a black candidate--emphasizing biography, using third-party authentication, attacking with an unconventional sideways approach, letting voters connect to the candidate by speaking to them directly in ads, and telling voters that supporting the black candidate puts them on the right side of history. ..."

Shorter version of this post - You can't.

You can't live blog this man - Superman couldn't live blog this man - this man lies faster than a bullet speeds.

I'm sitting here listening to the President's press conference, being broadcast in full, on cable and NPR, from Chicago.

Every word I am hearing come from his mouth is a lie, and that includes, as Mary McCarthy once famously said, the "ands," the "thes," and the "buts."

And I came in when it had already begun.