This past week saw Hillary come to her senses and (susp)end her campaign, the Lakers get beat senseless, and a sense of dread descend on those hoping that Obama would take a different approach to the US’s role in the Arab-Israeli peace process.

I’ve already blogged ad nauseum about Obama’s role with the Middle East peace process.  Scroll down for more.  Suffice to say, it’s the first time the international reaction (outside of Israel) has been anything less than exuberant about the possibility of an Obama presidency.   Various analyses of his speech at AIPAC say it was still fairly light on the pandering, but it did not come off that way.

It’s speeches like the above, that the Obama campaign posted, that really solidify his image as the most earnest politician in this lifetime.  Cynicism is so tempting toward anything related to a campaign, but the man somehow manages to transcend that.   I think how he runs his organization is about a good an indicator of how he’ll be as president as we have.

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Apple will likely make a few sense cents with the much ballyhooed 3G version of the iPhone, unveiled today.  In laymen’s terms, “3G” simply means a third generation wireless network.  The biggest complaint against the first iPhone was that is used a 2.5G network when a wifi signal was not available.  Download speeds and internet surfing were apparently painfully slow.  They managed to get the 3G chipset to their liking in terms of battery power consumption (the major reason it was withheld from the first generation) and are going to offer an 8GB model for just $199 (with a two year service plan).

3G will apparently allow data speeds as fast as your broadband home connection.  Along with the opening of the Application Store, which will offer iPhone applications developed by Apple-approved third party software developers, the potential of the little handheld that could should be truly unlocked.  Apple also introduced full Microsoft Exchange compatibilty, along with a revamping of their own .Mac service (now Me.com and MobileMe) that includes push email service.  All of that adds up to trouble for Crackberry maker RIM.

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Media blogger Eric Deggans is pretty straight-up.  I have his RSS feed in my Netvibes page and check it often for on-point media critique and some light-hearted fun.  He, like many people who have all of their senses in tact, find Bill O’Reilly to be an assault on all that is decent in journalism.  Deggans was part of a media conference over the weekend, at which he was ambushed by producers from the O’Reilly Factor attempting to do a smear job on the conference.

The HuffPost has also reported on the affair, widening the scope of the O’Reilly Factor’s shenanigans.  That guy is seriously pathetic.  I say this rarely, but I despise him and everything he stands for.