politburo diktat 2.0

Maybe the McCain girls will be swayed by this dramatic video of Hillary under fire in Tuzla:

Did Bill Clinton Call Obama Unpatriotic?
Screw this. Let’s get to the Finals where the champion patriotism-impugners of the GOP get in the game. How much longer will we have to let Bill Clinton do McCain’s Obama-bashing for him, anyway?
Later on, maybe Bill can get a gig at HotAir.

Now blogging at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey picks up on Chris Wallace calling out his Fox News colleagues for their excessive Obama-bashing.
Ed concurs. “Yes, yes … this was over the top .. too much Obama-bashing.”
I counted 22 Obama-bashing posts in the last 72 hours at Hot Air, which is their privilege. (A shout-out to my […]

Story behind the story: The Clinton myth - Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen - Politico.com
One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning.
Her own campaign acknowledges there is no way that she will finish ahead in pledged delegates. That […]

Am I the first one to demand that Hillary Clinton release her bracket? Like Obama has?
So far, nothing from Camp Clinton, typical of her secrecy, paranoia, and deceitfulness. What about her alleged commitment to transparency? I bet she picks Pittsburgh to go all the way.
Release the bracket now!

What I Got Wrong About the Iraq War - By Andrew Sullivan
Slate asked me to reflect on my own failings of judgment on the fifth year of the war. Maybe the day we Christans are called to atonement is a good day for publishing it. It’s cross-posted here.
I think I committed four cardinal sins.
Not exactly […]

John White is the black guy from Miller Place, Long Island, who shot and killed the teenager (Cicciaro) who came to White’s house one night regarding a dispute with White’s son.
Interesting headline from Newsday: Family outraged over sentence in Miller Place slaying
John White was sentenced to 2 to 4 years in prison Wednesday for killing […]

McCain misspeaks on Iraq
Mr. McCain said several times in his visit to Jordan — in a news conference and in a radio interview — that he was concerned that Iran was training Al Qaeda in Iraq. The United States believes that Iran, a Shiite country, has been training and financing Shiite extremists in Iraq, but […]

We watched the speech tonight on C-Span. As expected, it was powerful and compelling.
One theme caught my attention. Here’s an excerpt:
Marc Ambinder (March 18, 2008) - Obama’s Speech: The Text
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds […]

A whole dinosaur, with fossilized skin & soft tissue, a paleontologist’s Holy Grail:
Workers Uncovering Mummified Dinosaur
Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big greenish-black rock in the basement of North Dakota’s state museum are meticulously uncovering something amazing: a nearly complete dinosaur, skin and all.
Unlike almost every other dinosaur fossil ever found, the […]

Ben Smith on Obama’s Speech
He’ll be in Philadelphia [this] morning delivering a speech titled, “Race, Politics, and Unifying our Country.”
VandeHarris write:
The inflammatory rhetoric of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has confronted Obama with the most severe test of his presidential campaign and, quite likely, of his public career.
He […]

As my regular readers know, I periodically blog ordinary, high-profile news, or then go off on obsessive tears on obscure subjects of little interest, and then have not much to say about anything for a while. That’s where I am now.
So in lieu of reading two dozen inconsequential blog posts of mine for the past […]

Clinton strategist says Obama ‘can’t win the general election’
Though the campaign later argued that he hadn’t said it, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s chief campaign strategist told reporters this morning that Sen. Barack Obama “can’t win the general election.”
Follow the link. USAToday has audio files of him saying it, … in context. The best part […]

Olbermann Slams Clinton in Special Comment: “You Are Campaigning As If Barack Obama Were The Democrat And You Were The Republican”
Tonight, as promised, Keith Olbermann attacked Senator Hillary Clinton in a ten-minute “Special Comment,” saying that he was not endorsing Barack Obama but that “events insist” that he speak and stand against her “tepid response” […]

Ben Smiths Blog - Politico.com
“If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldnt be in the race,” she said.
Really. The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story byline: Howard Kurtz, available only on Nexis. Here’s the full context:
Placid of demeanor but pointed in his rhetoric, Jackson struck out repeatedly today […]