Here is a priceless moment. The moment Barack Obama met reality. He has coasted along with the almost universal adulation of an adoring press corps to this point. But yesterday, March 4, the press corps with him in San Antonio, Texas decided to ask him some hard questions about what his campaign aides told Canada about NAFTA, and about his dealings with Tony Rezko, a man on trial in Chicago. As you will see in the video clip below, answering hard questions is not on Obama's "hopeful" agenda. He just decided to walk away, to the protests of the press corp.

Below the video, you will find part of a Washington Post account of the fireworks:

The day before primaries in Ohio and Texas that could effectively seal the Democratic presidential nomination for him, a smiling Obama strode out to a news conference at a veterans facility here. But the grin was quickly replaced by the surprised look of a man bitten by his own dog.  read more »