Category: The Dish

Mickey mocked it as an electoral tool. Wrong again.

Another beaut from Peggy:

Some insight from a superdelegate I spoke to Thursday:

It’s not math anymore, it’s psychodrama. If she can’t have it, no one can have it. If she has to tear the party apart, she will.

One request at least: can we retire from the dicourse the notion that there is anything even faintly admirable about the Clintons’ refusal to accept that they have lost the nomination. This isn’t tenacity or pluck or spunk. It’s vindictive, sore-loser narcissism. And someone senior in the party needs to call it like it is.

"Jeremiah Wright goes to church looking for Jesus. And that’s why evangelicals should pay attention to him. This is not to say they should agree with him. But Jeremiah Wright is a serious Christian. He didn’t have to be — many gifted black intellectuals have gotten off the bus with the church for having been, as it inarguably has, a slave religion. (Wright has argued with Muslim friends that its track record is no better on slavery.) …

Therefore charity requires that evangelicals do business with Wright. He, like them, is part of the body of Christ. Not less than John Hagee or Rod Parsley — extremist ministers aligned with John McCain —Wright’s churchmanship means he is more brother than enemy," – Jason Byassee, Christianity Today.

Norm Geras offers six reasons to celebrate.

Arianna-bait.

"Senator Clinton continues to demonstrate that she has what it takes to win the Presidency … while Senator Obama does well in areas and demographic groups that the Democratic nominee will win anyway," – [Rep. Debbie] Wasserman-Schultz.

Robert A. George on what he sees as the Clintons’ bid to forge a Democratic coalition without African-Americans. It does seem to me at this point that the Clintons are on a mission to destroy any Democratic coalition that will not kowtow to them (egged on, of course, by Rove). If that means abandoning African-Americans, why would the Clintons hesitate? Loyalty only works one way with the Clintons.

NASA offers anyone $17,000 to stay prone for three months straight. Can they schedule it for immediately after the election, please?

Ambers:

On election day, Obama might have more than a million individuals volunteering on his behalf. That should scare the beejeesus out of the McCain campaign and the RNC.

Obama and Paul are the result of the unfolding Dean revolution in internet politics. But what Obama has done is use the power of the web to organize on the ground more effectively than any candidate in history. So far, the non-Paul right has been pretty clueless.

K-Lo daydreams.