and so, the NY POST calls him O'Bama, and sez he has the luck o' the Irish -- and he may have Irish blood in those lines at that!

I buy it! Because he out-Clintoned the Clintons.

He has my vote. I am a DEM again because I am simply f * * * ing amazed by the AUDACITY OF CHANGE.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03212008/news/columnists/o_what_a_lucky_break_this_fellow__is_get_102904.htm

Fate takes a hand and this is what we are getting. And it's good.

March 21, 2008 -- WASHINGTON - Call him Barack O'Bama - for he's got the luck of the Irish.
The very week he faces his toughest obstacle ever - one that may still derail his candidacy - Obama gets a near-game-ending pot of gold.
It now appears certain that Hillary Rodham Clinton's efforts to rewrite party rules in a desperate search for a lifeline have failed.
Her absurd proposal of counting her "wins" in Michigan and Florida - long after everyone agreed they wouldn't count - has been laughed off the table.
And now, it appears, there won't even be any revotes.
While revotes are the only way to resolve the matter justly, they would have been problematic for Obama ever since his insane preacher - who makes the Black Panthers seem docile - became a household name.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright would have terrified elderly Democrats in Florida and blue-collar whites in Michigan.
But Obama's luck doesn't end there. The timing of this whole mess couldn't have been better, because it competed for airtime with Eliot Spitzer's sexcapades.
The tapes have been around for years but came out only after Obama established himself as a solid front-runner.
And when they finally got widespread attention, it was during the longest spell of the campaign without any contests.
The next primary is still more than four weeks away in Pennsylvania, where Obama was going to lose anyway.
But luck is never just luck, and Obama works very hard.
The Wright scandal has been Obama's Gennifer Flowers moment.
And just as Bill Clinton handled that first great bimbo eruption, Obama handled this quite deftly.
In his Philadelphia speech on race this week, Obama laid bare his soul.
By blaming both whites and blacks for racial tensions, he triangulated the problem.
And, of course, he changed the subject from his Pastor Eruption.
He out-Clintoned even the Clintons and somewhere, Bill Clinton is marveling over how he backed the wrong horse in this race.
churt@nypost.com

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