This is not a joke!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102301882.html?hpid=moreheadlines Elrick Williams?s As Campaigns Chafe at Limits, Donors Might Be in Diapers

Elrick Williams's toddler niece Carlyn may be one of the youngest contributors to this year's presidential campaign. The 2-year-old gave $2,300 to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

So did her sister and brother, Imara, 13, and Ishmael, 9, and her cousins Chan and Alexis, both 13. Altogether, according to newly released campaign finance reports, the extended family of Williams, a wealthy Chicago financier, handed over nearly a dozen checks in March for the maximum allowed under federal law to Obama.

Paula Madison, a Los Angeles entertainment executive who is one of Elrick Williams's sisters (he referred calls to her), said Williams had not been regularly involved in political fundraising but got excited about the notion of seeing an African American elected president. He talked to every member of the family about his desire to help Obama. One relative served as a trustee for a fund set up for Williams's children, nieces and nephews, Madison said.

They believed that because a trustee was legally responsible for handling the children's money, that trustee could make the donations on their behalf.

Lawrence Noble, a former FEC general counsel, said the involvement of a trustee can help prove that the child used his or her own money -- which is important -- but does not, on its own, make the contribution legal.

This is the second time in two months that the Obama campaign has returned contributions from young children. The first involved donations from Maryland developer Aris Mardirossian's two children, Matthew, 8, and Karis, 7; each contributed $2,300 to Obama's primary campaign and $2,300 more for a possible general-election contest.

This is even better,

"My children are very engaged in politics, Mardirossian said. "The whole family is engaged. Every Sunday we get together, all the cousins, everybody comes and talks about politics. The children sit down and listen to the debates and everything."

yup, we know those toddlers in diapers really enjoy watching Obama on 'Meet the Press' every Sunday Morning...

Lesson to Obama and his supporters: when you live in a glass house, stop throwing stones...

Obama is also showing no signs of backing away from controversial anti-gay singer McClurkin. The influencial HRC will soon jump in and we'll keep a close eye on his antics of using on group to demonize another group.

http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2007/10 23/obama-takes-heat-from-gays-on-gospel -tour

And now we hear, via MSNBC, that Obama's staff think they've weathered the storm, that the crisis has now passed, and it won't damage them much at all.

However, the Obama campaign showed no signs of backing away from McClurkin's inclusion on the 3-day concert tour through South Carolina.

Meanwhile, Dodd takes a brilliant swipe at Edwards's expensive haircuts...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/
Dodd and Edwards

I didn't catch this on the first listen to Chris Dodd's new ad, but as his barbershop scene fades at the very end, he asks the barber, "How much are these haircuts?"

It's an obvious shot at John Edwards, and seems to be part of a broader move by Dodd to attempt to occupy what had been, specifically, Edwards' place in the race: As the hero of the online Left and the voice of confrontation, rather than compromise, with the administration.

Watch Dodd's ad yourself!