“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

Not this one.

An Omaha man struggling to breathe used a steak knife to perform an at-home tracheotomy. Steve Wilder said he thought he was going to die when he awoke one night last week and couldn’t breath.

Wilder said he didn’t call 911 because he didn’t think help would arrive in time. So, the 55-year-old says, he got a steak knife from the kitchen and made a small hole in his throat, allowing air to gush in.

McCain just said the United States should set up a missile defense system in Czechoslovakia. Should we assume he meant the Czech Republic?

Czechoslovakia hasn’t existed for 15 years. Perhaps McSame wants to look into basing them in the Free City of Danzig, too.

The Democratic nomination battle is over. John looks forward.

And don’t get me wrong- I am not for Obama because of what I am against. I am for Obama because he is a decent man, a break from the past, and really a once in a lifetime opportunity. He has treated us like adults throughout this primary, and it is time to act like adults. There will be times we feel he lets us all down, but we are not electing a diety. We are electing a leader, and Obama is that leader. It is time to get past the bullshit of the last 20 years, the battles I am really tired of fighting, and time to turn our attention to the really important issues of the day- the economy, the budget, our international presence, our crumbling infrastructure, our military, medicare and medicaid and social security, and on and on and on.

Tragedy struck the first filly in the Kentucky Derby since 1999, as Eight Belles went down on the track after her second-place finish today, broke two ankles, and was euthanized.

Showing a sisterhood with the female horse, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., during a trip to Louisville this week had said she was going to bet on Eight Belles to win, place, and show.

ABC News’ Karen Travers reports that Clinton told supporters in Jeffersonville, Ind., earlier this week, “I hope that everybody will go to the derby on Saturday and place just a little money on the filly for me. I won’t be able to be there this year — my daughter is going to be there and so she has strict instructions to bet on Eight Belles.”

The horse Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., picked to show — Big Brown — won the Derby.

Mark Penn, in a phone call with sports reporters, said that Eight Belles had been leading for 3 lengths of the race, “you know, the really important lengths,” and that she wasn’t really dead anyway, and that he believed that the horse he called “The Comeback Filly” would be declared the winner.

Two thunderous blasts set off by suicide bombers ripped through a crowded shopping street in the town of Balad Ruz in Diyala Province on Thursday, killing at least 35 people and wounding at least 62 others, many of them seriously. An American soldier secured an area of Baghdad on Thursday after a car bombing killed a soldier and nine Iraqis. An American patrol seemed to be the target. The first bomb was aimed at a wedding caravan that was driving through the neighborhood, said a security official in Balad Ruz, known for its restaurants and stores. The second bomb went off after the police and medical teams arrived.

Most of us accepted uncritically Bush’s statements about WMDs and how easy it would be, etc, etc.

Some had the “judgment” not to fall for it.

No question that it is going to be difficult to extract ourselves from Iraq. I’d rather have someone in charge who had the “judgment” to make the call correctly at the beginning.

MyDD :: Obama’s Magic Number: 283
Obama’s Magic Number: 283

by Jonathan Singer, Thu May 01, 2008 at 12:39:28 PM EST

This may be the first time that I’ve seen the race phrased this way, but Marc Ambinder puts the race in these terms following Barack Obama’s endorsement by a Texas superdelegate and news that Obama will pick up three more add-on superdelegates from Illinois on Monday:

Texas DNC Member John Patrick, vice president of the Texas AFL-CIO. That’s 12 for Obama since Pennsylvania. He needs 283 to clinch the nomination.

While technically there isn’t a whole lot of difference between adding from the bottom up rather than subtracting from the top down, rhetorically there is a difference. Talking about the magic number — the remaining number of delegates a particular candidate needs to receive in order to secure the Democratic nomination — suggests an end game in sight.

Why the Jeremiah Wright story deserves more attention - Glenn Greenwald

Why the Jeremiah Wright story deserves more attention

I think the most important thing to note about the Jeremiah Wright Story is that we’re a Nation plagued by exceedingly few significant problems; blessed with a quite healthy political culture and very trusted political and media institutions; composed of a citizenry that is peacefully content with its Government and secure and confident about their future; endowed with a supremely sturdy economic foundation free of debt and other grave economic afflictions; …

Phib’s video is good enough, but follow the link to NRO if you need to.

The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.

Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.

The editorial goes on to compare her to Karl Rove, the equivalent of “going nuclear” in Democratic Party politics.

The Clintons have disappointed me this election. I was never a big fan of them, but neither have I ever been (until recently) a rabid Clinton-hater. The point being, since my expectations of the Clintons, going in, were quite modest, it’s saying something that they even “disappointed” my minimal expectations. If their antics lead to McCain defeating Obama in November, I’m going to even more pissed.