An Obama Meltdown

Welcome to the big leagues, Obama. The Hillary campaign pushed to get questions asked and they were asked:

Much of the back and forth, though, between reporters and Obama was about his relationship with Tony Rezko, with reporters demanding to know why new details were emerging from the case though Obama and his staff had claimed they had been forthright with all the details.

Obama and Carol Marin, political editor at NBC5 in Chicago and columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, tangled over how up front Obama had been about Rezko. Obama cut off her line of questioning, saying that Marin's questions were personally motivated.

"Carol, can I just say I have to really dispute this,” Obama said. “It is true that you wanted an individual sit down, but I don't think that's fair to speak for the entire Chicago press corps because on this -- Let me finish," he interjected as she tried to interrupt.

“Before you were reporting on these issues I had an avail,” Obama said, pointing to members of the Chicago press corps who were present, “where I literally stood there and took every question people could think of."

It's a new race now folks, Hillary has gained and the momentum may just be shifting.

It's a about time the media actually got around to asking pertinent question about Rezko and maybe even about his policy proposals.

Cap'n Ed juxtaposes the Obama response to the Rezko question with the McCain response to the NY Times smear piece and find Obama lacking.

It's always interesting to see a politician respond when first exposed to probing questions. Hillary faced that last year for the first time and Obama is facing it now. It seems they've both failed.

Perhaps years of liberal bias by the media has made the GOP tougher as shown by Maverick. Perhaps the one who will gain immensely from this is not Hillary but McCain. Sure, it helps Shillary but all it's going to do is lead to a prtracted internecine battle in the Democratic party that will leave it bruised and battered.

Scoreboard McCain.