Richelieu thinks "she’s out in a week or less." Oh don’t do that to me.
Category: The Dish
Yglesias Award Nominee
"It has become popular in conservative circles these days to suggest that "you just gotta admire her tenacity," a sentiment that is advanced at her campaign rallies…
But what is there to admire about this so-called "tenacity"? Clinton began this campaign with a financial edge, the support of a popular former Democratic president, a built-in political apparatus, a consistent lead of more than 20 points in national polls, and more than a hundred superdelegates.
If a candidate starts off with all of those advantages and is too stubborn to drop out of the race, it’s no surprise that she is still hanging on.
There is absolutely nothing admirable about a politician so narcissistic and hungry for power that she is willing to say or do whatever suits her political interests at any given moment. If the Republican Party has declined to the point where conservatives are so worried about defeating a freshman Senator that they are rooting for Clinton to do their dirty work for them, it is simply pathetic," – Philip Klein, American Spectator.
Another Mountaintop
A reader writes:
I had a moment last night when I realized something significant about the historic timing of the Democratic convention. The Democratic nominee (Obama) will give his acceptance speech on August 28, 2008 … 45 years to the day of MLK’s "I Have a Dream" speech. The dream does, in fact, live on.
Know hope.
Pilgrim’s Progress
Steve Waldman notes slow but clear gains among Catholic voters for Obama from Pennsylvania to Indiana and North Carolina. He also notes that the white vote was pretty evenly split yesterday – except among seniors.
If Clinton Drops Out
At least I now know what to do:
(Hat tip: Rizzo Sports.)
A Net Delegate Gain Of 15
And so the front-runner in the final lap increases his lead.
Hillary Clinton’s Jeremiah Wright
Sally Quinn nails it in a brutally candid post that lays bare the true politics of association in an alleged feminist’s career:
“You don’t choose your family but you choose what church you want to attend,” she said. But you do choose your husband. She chose Bill Clinton. And she has not gotten up and moved. Instead, she has enabled him over the last 32 years of their marriage, not only standing by him, denying what she knew about his womanizing and trying to delegitimize those who told the truth about it…
About one girlfriend, Connie Hamzy, she said,,”We have to destroy her story.”
About Gennifer Flowers she denied the story even after having a tape played on television about it. It was “attack the motives and the details,”said former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers to Sally Bedell Smith, author of “For Love of Politics” (ever wonder why so many former Clintonites are not supporting her or are actively supporting Obama? And what about Senate colleagues?). He was accused of sexually harassing Kathleen Willey. He was accused of rape by Juanita Broadrick, exposed himself to Paula Jones and finally had a sexual relationship with a 21 year old White House intern, a few years older than his own daughter…
Hillary did not get up and move.
Thanks, Sally.
Black Voters Did It
My take from last night on the historic nature of yesterday’s African-American repudiation of the Clintons.
The Right’s Crushing Disappointment
I know many conservatives are disappointed by last night’s results. Perhaps a brief walk down Clinton Memory Lane would remind them that they should not lament the Fall of the House of Clinton. Indeed, instead of fretting this morning about an Obama ascendancy, conservatives should take a bit of pleasure in the fact that we won’t have the Clintons to kick us around anymore.
It’s all but officially Obama vs. McCain. Game on.
Hip Hop Economist
Magdalen College’s most celebrated product is now very street. Who knew?
