First up, sex ed in Kindergarten:

Sex Ed for Kindergarteners ‘Right Thing to Do,’ Says Obama

ABC News’ Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is “age-appropriate,” is “the right thing to do.”

“I remember Alan Keyes . . . I remember him using this in his campaign against me,” Obama said in reference to the conservative firebrand who ran against him for the U.S. Senate in 2004. Sex education for kindergarteners had become an issue in his race against Keyes because of Obama’s work on the issue as chairman of the health committee in the Illinois state Senate.

“‘Barack Obama supports teaching sex education to kindergarteners,’” said Obama mimicking Keyes’ distinctive style of speech. “Which — I didn’t know what to tell him (laughter).”

“But it’s the right thing to do,” Obama continued, “to provide age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in schools.”

I don’t have the foggiest notion what age appropriate sex ed for a 5 year old is.  Obama is an idiot.

But that aside, he knows who his biggest threat is (barring the Goracle’s last minute entry):

Obama Tries to Peel Away Clinton Backers

Barack Obama says people are sure to love him once they get to know him.

For now, though, Democrats seem to love Hillary Rodham Clinton more, so Obama is trying to turn heads with select jabs at his chief rival.

Among his criticisms in recent weeks, Obama has:

_Rejected the notion that she’s more prepared for the job. “The only person who would probably be prepared to be our president on Day One would be Bill Clinton—not Hillary Clinton,” he said.

_Repeatedly reminded voters that she supported the Iraq war resolution, trying to cut off any credit she might get for trying to repeal the authorization now. “There are no do-overs on an issue as important as war,” he said, and called her approach “convoluted.”

That’s the implications of his wife’s latest media pimping.  He would be nothing in this campaign without her.

First comes this video add, where she lauds his unbelievable toughness:

A lot of that is probably referring to his being a lawyer, and all the lawsuits he brought.  Toughness and fighting for others made him a very wealthy man.

But she also noted his being a better candidate for women:

The Salon Interview: Elizabeth Edwards

Another famous spouse has been in the headlines in recent days, of course. But while former President Bill Clinton was busy telling Iowa and New Hampshire audiences that his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, has the experience to be president, Elizabeth Edwards’ pitch seems to be that her husband has the guts to make the radical changes a president should be ready to make in 2009, after eight years of the Bush debacle. On Saturday night, at the end of a long day of campaigning, she curled up in light-blue pajamas made of environmentally friendly bamboo for an hourlong interview in her hotel room. She hit Hillary Clinton particularly hard, arguing that John Edwards is, in fact, the better candidate for women: “She’s just not as vocal a women’s advocate as I want to see. John is.”

Do you ever have twinges about, well, you’re supporting this great guy, your husband, but against the first credible woman candidate and the first credible African-American candidate in the race?

No, I don’t. I wind up talking about this a lot. My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them. What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn’t value a white man because he’s a white man, but also doesn’t value a woman because she’s a woman, or a black because he’s a black. So it bothers me that the pitch is made, as it is, that there’s an obligation of people to give support. When I was a lawyer, I was the first female lawyer many people had ever seen. I had an obligation to my client to do the work right, but I thought constantly about my obligation to the women who came after me. If I didn’t do a good job, they wouldn’t get a chance to sit where I’m sitting. I think one of the things that make me so completely comfortable with this is that keeping that door open to women is actually more a policy of John’s than Hillary’s.