Category: The Dish

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John McCain’s embrace of the anti-Catholic, anti-gay bigot is not going to go away. He is a white Farrakhan, but the media has essentially given McCain a pass.

CBC has a useful TV round-up. It’s pretty clear it was a bum-rap on Obama. But it won’t be the first one, and he has to get better at responding in real time.

Charlotte Allen digs deeper.

McAuliffe just echoed Ickes on this odd term on Hardball. It’s clearly the new Clinton meme.

The Obama camp puts this previous Clinton statement into the mix:

“I was shocked when I learned Iowa and Mississippi have never elected a woman governor, senator or member of Congress. There has got to be something at work here. How can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi? That’s not the quality. That’s not the communitarianism, that’s not the openness I see in Iowa.”

And the beat goes on.

Some skepticism against Weigel.

Their governors demand that their delegates be seated. You could see this coming. It’s the only way the Clintons can get back to the White House. And rules are for non-Clintons.

A very shrewd move by the Clintons, according to this reader:

Everyone’s buzzing about Hillary’s "superticket" talk today.  Clearly that’s a strategic campaign move for her, and is in no way a part of her oft-hidden gracious nature.  If she can convince enough people that it’s a strong possibility for her to choose Obama as VP, she can stem the flow of on-the-fencers and cause them to lean her way.  Because with her, they get a chance at having it both ways!  And that’s a guiltless, easy win-win choice for an undecided voter to make.  Conversely, Obama hasn’t mentioned her as a possibility, which could start hurting him when it comes down the undecideds he’s got to move in the coming primaries.

Some fresh polling data: a tiny majority of Californians support marriage rights (49 to 46). A massive majority (64 to 32) favors either civil unions or civil marriages. I say: no court pre-empting of this astonishing achievement in democratic persuasion.