Larry King plays candidate-association with comic Lewis Black.
John McCain: He marvels that people could have voted for John McCain in 2000 “when he was sane.”
Hillary: How could she want it that much?
Barack Obama: “I don’t like hope, OK?” Larry says, “You don’t like hope?” Lewis responds, “Both of us, we’re too old for hope…. Don’t give me hope, not after this president.”
In a recent speech Hillary Clinton said that during a 1996 trip to Bosnia she faced sniper fire when her plane landed. Or maybe not. She was assaulted, however, by a young girl who read her a poem at the tarmac greeting ceremony. More from the Washington Post here and here.
LATER: The Clinton campaign says the Senator “misspoke” in relating the event.
Casey Knowles, the sleeping little girl in the Hillary Clinton 3:00 AM phone call ad, makes an ad of her own. Like many young voters, she’s into hope and change and all that good stuff.
TechPresident reports that a McCain staffer was fired for Twittering a link to the Obama Wright video below.
Says TechPresident:
Twitter has claimed it’s first political victim. Conservative blogger and John McCain aide Soren Dayton was suspended from the campaign yesterday for posting a link to the “Is Obama Wright” video on Twitter. Yup, that’s it. The campaign saw the act as a violation of McCain’s own decree to stay away from personal attacks on Obama. While the move makes sense from the campaign’s point of view, we kinda feel bad for Dayton, who had been a perceptive follower of the race before joining the McCain campaign. Townhall’s Matt Lewis is less diplomatic, accusing the McCain campaign of throwing Dayton under the bus.
At a rally in Salem, OR, Barack Obama explains why Democrats should vote for him instead of Hillary Clinton. While “the differences on issues are not immense” in domestic policy, says Obama, “Senator Clinton all too often over the last five years in foreign policy debates has calibrated her responses based on politics instead of good judgment.”
But the biggest difference, he says, is that Senator Clinton “doesn’t believe in transparency . . . She doesn’t believe, I think, in bottom-up democracy. And if you don’t believe in that then you’re not going to change Washington.”
Bill Richardson lays it on thick for Barack Obama. (Will Richardson lose the beard if he gets the VP spot?)
Sound Bite: “Your candidacy . . . is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our nation and you are a once-in-a-lifetime leader.”
Sound Bite: “It is time for Democrats to stop fighting amongst ourselves and prepare for the tough fight we will have against John McCain in the fall.”
In his speech earlier this week Barack Obama called for a dialogue on race. On The Daily Show Jon Stewart and “Senior Black Correspondent” Larry Wilmore demonstrate how smoothly that discussion will go.
In an appearance on The Tonight Show last night, John Edwards tells Jay Leno he’s been clearing brush with his tractor, home-schooling his kids and playing basketball with Barack. Is he going to endorse either Obama or Clinton? Not yet.
Here’s Barack Obama’s speech on the five-year anniversary of the Iraq War and its costs, on people, on strategy, and on the economy: “The price of oil is four times what it was before this war. You’re paying the price for this war.”
Pastor Otis Moss III of Trinity United Church of Christ says Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the church itself have been “tranished and vilified” and “reduced to a sound bite . . . and a bite of anything is not good nutrition. You need a full meal.” He goes on to enumerate the church’s good works.
Trinity United Church has a YouTube channel and over the past few days they have posted numerous clips from Reverend Wright. (No ranting and raving about politics here - strictly old time religion.)
Reverend Wright: “He Will”
Meanwhile in Harlem, Pastor James Manning of Atlah World Missionary Church says Barack Obama is a “long-legged mack daddy ” — among other things.
Hillary Clinton uses a BBC interview with former Obama foreign policy advisor Samantha (“Hillary’s a monster!”) Power to suggest that Obama’s stated position on withdrawing troops from Iraq is somewhat fluid — as opposed to her plan, which is apparently set in stone. (Hmmm, do you think that position might undergo some tinkering if she’s the nominee?)
