Hillary Clinton provides historical context for staying in the race.
On second thought, maybe using the “A” word wasn’t such a good idea.
Archive for May, 2008
John McCain’s Rev. Wright — Rev. Hagee — withdraws his support of McCain and McCain rejects the support of the Rev. It’s getting to the point that it’ll be safer to get elected as an agnostic or warlock. The Young Turks said it had to happen:
The problem with picking people as wallpaper behind you when you give speeches is that sometimes it stars peeling. Obama had the three A&F guys behind him recently. And Jimmy Kimmel found two amusing fellow behind Clinton this week.
The people-pundits are using YouTube to debate choices for vice-president. Brandon, an Obama voter, says he can’t believe he’d push for Hillary Clinton for anything but he wants her for veep:
That’s in response to this prognistication that winners never choose losers:
Ellen Degeneres is getting hitched this summer and she asks John McCain what he thinks about gay marriage.
Barack Obama says “we all have a piece of each other” and that Americans have to get past their differences in order to move ahead. He says his “mixed-up background” shows that “everyone is in this together.”
Sound Bite: “When you get my family together, I mean, you’ve got people who look like Margaret Thatcher. You’ve got people who look like Bernie Mac . . . My sister, she looks like Selma Hayek.”
Non-Hispanic white voters don’t much like the two Democratic candidates says a recent Gallup poll (May 1 - 18). John McCain beats Hillary Clinton 51% to 42% within this demographic and whomps Barack Obama 53% to 38%.
Hillary says “Thank you, Kentucky.” (Especially you lower-income white folks and seniors.)
Barack Obama goes back to Iowa, where it all began, to celebrate winning the majority of Democratic pledged delegates.
Fox News has a field day with Obama saying we can’t drive our SUVs. I think it’s more troubling that he says we can’t eat as much as we want.
Chris Matthews — who has been downright spiteful in his coverage of Hillary Clinton — reports that she is attacking back. But David Shuster, the correspondent, explains it all away: “Attacking the media is not new. Presidents and politicians have been doing it for a long time, usually to deflect their own problems, often to tap into a perceived voter hostility towards journalists. The problem for Hillary Clinton is that her charges may reinforce concerns about her credibility.” His illogic: Clinton says that some in the media want her to quit. Shuster says that though they have declared her campaign over, nobody asked for her to quit. He then goes on to declare himself, “She will not win.”
James Kotecki and David McMillan wonder whether Obama has gone from being not black enough to being too black.
Denny Crane for President!
Obama explains the sudden appearance of that darned flag pin on his lapel.
Hillary explains how she’s winning.
Sound bite: “More people have voted for me than have voted for my opponent. More people have voted for me than for anybody ever running for president before.”
Sound bite: “We have to figure is who will win 270 electoral votes.”
Obama’s campaign brags about its largest rally yet: 75,000 people — plus boats — in Portland, OR.
