Today is the day that the RBC (the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee) will settle once and for all the status of the Michigan and Florida delegates. Clinton is pushing for seating all of them as they currently are (including the Stalin-style election in Michigan where hers was the only name on the ballot), and […]
Thomas Friedman, five years ago today on Charlie Rose:
Ugh.
Marc Ambinder did a poll of his readers today and asked them whether a possible pledge by McCain to serve only one term would:
A) “make him look strong and selfless”
…Or…
B) “turn him into an instant lame duck”
I tend to side with the former point of view, but apparently 73% of Marc’s readers felt it […]
Bush said to McClellan on the day he left the White House, “One of these days he and I are going to be rocking on chairs in Texas, talking about the good old days and his time as the Press Secretary… And I can assure you I will feel the same way then that I […]
Pulitzer-prize winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was on Meet The Press Sunday and she smacked down Hillary’s false historical parallels between the current Democratic presidential primary and the ones in 1992 and 1968. Watch:
Earlier
RFK assassination? 1992 campaign? Hillary doesn’t know her history
Tom Toles is one clever man.
If you’ll recall, the Clinton campaign not too long ago was touting its February 5th win in California saying that it was a “big state” (one with a lot of electoral college votes) and one that a Democrat would have to win to win the general election.
Since Obama didn’t win it in the primary (Clinton […]
Hillary Clinton on why she won’t drop out of the race even though it’s almost June:
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it.”
Okay, a couple […]
I got a very interesting email from YouTube today.
As long time readers may recall (although they probably don’t), my old YouTube account was suspended in September 2007 for hosting copyrighted videos– mostly videos about political stuff from television (check out my new YouTube channel here). At the time, YouTube operated on a three-strike basis for […]
This website is way too subtle, I just can’t figure out what it’s trying to say:
www.isbarackobamamuslim.com
Ugh:
Hillary Clinton compared her effort to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to epic American struggles, including those to free the slaves and win the right to vote for blacks and women.
[…]
Clinton, at times sounding like a modern history professor, praised the abolitionists, suffragettes and civil rights pioneers and talked about her own efforts to fight […]
Yawn. So Clinton wins Kentucky as expected and Obama wins Oregon as expected, and Obama wins the majority of the pledged delegates at stake without Michigan and Florida. He said tonight the nomination is “within reach.” Not quite a declaration of victory, and Clinton is hinting that she will stay in the race until June.
Here […]
Warren Buffet backs Obama
Ben Smith writes:
The Charleston Gazette reports an endorsement deep with symbolism: West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd is endorsing Barack Obama.
“Barack Obama is a noble-hearted patriot and humble Christian, and he has my full faith and support,” Byrd says.
He said he has “no intention of involving myself in the Democratic campaign for President in the midst […]
Obama drew the largest crowd for a political event in years in Portland, Oregon yesterday.
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