TPM's Greg Sargent noted the following confident predictions by former DNC chair and Obama supporter yesterday.

Joe Andrew, the former DNC chair who gave Obama a big boost by switching to him, just pumped up expectations for Obama to the popping point by predicting on Fox that he'd win both Indiana and North Carolina.

Regardless of one's views on free-trade, whether they be as protectionistic and tribal as those of Lou Dobbs or liberal as those of Paul Krugman, the importance of a candidate's statements and deeds on the subject is indisputably of significance in the upcoming primaries. Hitherto pro-outsourcing Hillary has found herself in the lamentable situation of relying on the most labor-concerned states as her primary election firewall, leading to the now notorious distortions to Ohio voters of her past positions on NAFTA.  However, a less discussed subject of controversy for Hillary is outsourcing and H-1B visas.

Oliver Willis poses this question which is fleshed out by Barron's.  The facts are not flattering to our former Fed Chief, whose policies we increasingly regret.  This story about the dissertation that is not there is well worth the read.

I do not know if this has been addressed here at Kos, so do forgive if there has already been a diary on the subject.

From Rovian tactics in campaigning to Roger Stone's Republican mob in Dade county, the Hillary campaign shows itself once again to have well learned from the Republican rulebook.

Via Politico, we find the following Hillary campaign letter:

As a native of Maracaibo in Venezuela, close to the border with Colombia, I watched in much distress as tanks and the threat of war showed their face in our peace-loving land.  I will avoid the politics behind it all.  My interest is sharing my joy at what happened after the war machinery rolled away, and a heeeeoooooge concert for peace took place, starred by some of the greatest in Ibero-American music.

MIL GRACIAS A JUANES, RICARDO MONTANER, JUAN FERNANDO VELAZCO, CARLOS VIVES, JUAN LUIS GUERRA, ALEJANDRO SANZ Y MIGUEL BOSE

Blessed by the peacemakers.

I hope you enjoy this as I did.

A posting by Gerald Posner at the HuffPo just an hour ago does not even appear on the Huffpo frontpage, yet it is one of the top items in Google News right now.

Posner claims to be an Obama supporter but raises questions about Rev. Wright's incendiary statements following 911, the likelyhood that Obama would not have heard them.

Fellow Americans,

At this stage in our history we are presented with a unique opportunity.
It is a choice we must make today, not in four years.
It is the buck we cannot pass on to a future generation
For to posterity we must secure the blessing
Of a nation of many united as one.

Unlike those of just about every other Latin American nation, Venezuela's governments have always been left leaning and populist, perhaps even guilty of demagoguery, but corruption was their downfall, and the current regime is no different.