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.
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.
At least I now know what to do:
(Hat tip: Rizzo Sports.)
And so the front-runner in the final lap increases his lead.
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.
My take from last night on the historic nature of yesterday’s African-American repudiation of the Clintons.
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.
Magdalen College’s most celebrated product is now very street. Who knew?
We now find out that the Clintons loaned themselves another $6.4 million and that, according to Stephanopoulos,
"More superdelegates will come out today for Barack Obama –they will come three, four, five at a time, and this nomination will be locked up."
They’re clearly rattled in the same way Jeremiah Wright is rattled. Obama changes the entire dynamic. It is important to Sharpton and Wright that Obama fail. It is just as important for Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele. Sowell’s rants are particularly sad:
"The difference between Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright is that they are addressing different audiences, using different styles adapted to those audiences. It is a difference between upscale demagoguery and ghetto demagoguery, playing the audience for suckers in both cases."
If this isn’t true – and it patently isn’t – Sowell’s entire position comes unraveled. Here’s hoping it does.
