Today is a huge day for Barack Obama.

If his expected strong showing in the New Hampshire primary materializes, the first-term U.S. Senator from Illinois could be crowned the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee by nightfall.

While rival Hillary Clinton's campaign has tried to paint Obama as a lightweight, blogger Lerone Wilson, writing on the tongue-in-cheek Blackline, quips that Obama's surprising recent surge was assisted by the candidate's emulation of the in-your-face glare displayed by Tiger Woods on EA Sports' Tiger Woods PGA Tour 05:

In the cover of the 2005 version of his video game... Tiger broke out the now famous “Tiger Stare”, in which a serious faced Woods looked directly into the camera, and pointed his finger into the face of whomever had guts to so much as look at the game...

We all thought that the Tiger Stare was buried in 2005. Tiger went back to winning while smiling, and we considered the intimidation and sheer dominance of the event a once in a lifetime occurrence. Nevertheless, last week Barack Obama turned to an AP photographer at a political rally, and singlehandedly revived the Tiger Stare.

“He turned, looked over, and it was like time had stopped. All of his charisma and friendliness melted away for a moment, and all that existed was sheer intimidation,” said an observer to the event. “The look pierced my soul, and I just had to sit there and repent for everything I had done wrong throughout my entire life.”

GP: Of his blog, a new one to us, Wilson writes:

Blackline hopes to build on that solid foundation of bad comedy. Perhaps the greatest obstacle in our national dialogue on race, is the inherent fear we have of discussing it. Blackline addresses this problem head on, serving as the opening joke to the nation’s ongoing racial discourse...