Intriguing: As the primary season nears a merciful end, the Clinton-Obama conflict is giving way to Obama-Clinton conjecture. Many in the Democratic Party support a so-called dream ticket of both, with Barack Obama at the top. They believe Hillary Clinton has earned the No. 2 spot through her feisty, never-say-die campaign, and they worry that her supporters will stay home … Read More
Obama Has Majority of Pledged Delegates
Barack Obama is perhaps 70-90 delegates away from hitting the magic number of 2,026. NBC News and CNN report that Obama has now clinched a majority of the pledged delegates, surpassing the 1,627 mark. Assuming Obama is able to secure 30 delegates out of Oregon (which seems likely at this juncture given the spread in the state), Obama will have … Read More
John McCain And Jesus — Yeah, I Get Them Confused
Hmmmm: Georgia Republican Party chairwoman Sue Everhart said Saturday that the party’s presumed presidential nominee has a lot in common with Jesus Christ. "John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross," Everhart said as she began the second day of the state GOP convention. "He never denounced God, either." Everhart was praising McCain for never denouncing the … Read More
Shut The Hell Up!
Olbermann laid into Bush last night about the "no golfing while we’re in Iraq" sacrifice that Bush is making. Full transcript below the fold.
House Republicans In Turmoil
Lot of stories covering this, but this one spells it out nicely: They said the first was an outlier. The second, a fluke. But after losing their third seat this year in a special election, House Republicans faced the possibility on Wednesday that if they don’t repair their image with voters, they could be in for another rough November. A … Read More
Sweeeeet – Edwards Endorses Obama
NYT: At a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday evening, John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama, who was on the stage with him, to be the Democratic nominee for president. Sounding a theme of a nation divided into parts by walls, Mr. Edwards said, “The reason I am here tonight is that Democratic voters in America have made their choice … Read More
Bush Makes Ultimate Sacrifice For The War
President Bush finally admitted today that he has been touched by the true cost of war: For the first time, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families: He has given up golf. "I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in … Read More
Pinin’ For The Fjords
Monty Python meets Hillary Clinton Here’s the sad part: 2:57 p.m., Yeager Airport, Charleston, W.Va.: A steep descent brings Clinton’s plane to Charleston’s hilltop airport. After an appropriate wait, she steps from the plane and pretends to wave to a crowd of supporters; in fact, she is waving to 10 photographers underneath the airplane’s wing. She pretends to spot an … Read More
The West Wing and This Election Cycle (Life Imitates Art Imitating Life)
Hmmmm. The Jimmy Smits character on The West Wing, who ran for president against a moderate Republican, was based on a then-unknown young charismatic minority soon-to-be Senator from Illinois named…. Barack Obama: Devotees of the West Wing have been talking about it for weeks: the uncanny similarity between the fictional presidential contest that dominated the final seasons of the acclaimed … Read More
Hillary Knows The End Is Nigh
Here’s why: Speaking to voters in the Appalachian state, she said: “All the kitchen table issues that everybody talks to me about are ones that the next president can actually do something about, if he actually cares about it.” Realising her faux pas, she added: “More likely if she cares about it!”
The Republicans And Depression
The GOP has unveiled a new slogan. They are branding their party can candidates as offering "THE CHANGE YOU DESERVE". Nice going, morons. Your campaign slogan is already copyrighted as an advertisement for an anti-depressant: What the GOP doesn’t seem to realize, because they are idiots, is that "the change you deserve" is the registered advertising slogan of Effexor XR, … Read More
Obama Takes Superdelegate Lead
From First Read: Barack Obama has overtaken Hillary Clinton in the NBC NEWS superdelegate count with the endorsement of Hawaii’s Dolly Strazar. This is his second of the day and puts him now officially over the top, 277-276.5. Obama has now picked up 21 superdelegates since last Tuesday’s contests in North Carolina and Indiana. Clinton has picked up 1.5 The … Read More
Things Younger Than John McCain
Bugs Bunny The Polio Vaccine Both of Obama’s Parents Mount Rushmore McDonalds Alaska From thingsyoungerthanmccain.com UPDATE:
Trouble For The GOP
The Hillary-Obama feud is, in my opinion, overplayed. Hillary will drop out, and the party will unite. Most think McCain has has a gift by not having opposition all this time. But there are clouds on the horizon. Ron Paul Supporters Plan To Disrupt McCain’s GOP Nominating Convention Coronation Is Arizona Senator John McCain facing an opposition-free Republican convention where … Read More
Obama Picks Up 4 Supers; Hillary Loses One
First Read: The Obama campaign announced three superdelegates — Jeanette Council (NC); Jerry Meek (NC) and Inola Henry (CA) — have pledged support. AP is reporting one more, a switch from Clinton in Virginia, Jennifer McClellan. (We’re working to confirm that and will update.) The Delegate Counts:PLEDGED: Obama 1,588-1,422SUPERDELEGATES: Clinton 273.5-259OVERALL: 1,847-1.695.5 * Obama is 178 from the Magic Number … Read More