Mickey looks at two classic McCain gambits when asked tough questions.
Brown-Nosing Hillary
Isn’t it worth pointing out that when Tina Brown writes about Hillary Clinton, she has a pretty obvious conflict of interest – between telling the truth and keeping the subject of her forthcoming book politically alive for when it comes out?
Quote For The Day
""Everyone’s been looking for a way in. It’s just been thin gruel beyond a certain point," – a news editor on the desperate attempt to find some newsworthy dirt on Obama.
The “Boiled Frog” Primary
Clinton’s losing it – so far as I know.
“The Next Month Or So …”
McCain promises to release his full medical records. Where are his tax returns, by the way? Or do you not need to release them if you have a "lifetime of experience," dodging the press.
Cookie Monster
The negative ads are getting out of control:
Release The Tax Returns!
I figure we should all do our bit to get the Clintons to behave like normal politicians. Every day. What are they hiding? And don’t the voters have a right to know before they vote?
Obama’s Popular Vote Lead
Max Fletcher points out something the cable shows should keep front and center:
Currently, according to the popular vote totals at Real Clear Politics, Obama leads Clinton in total votes cast 13,007,968 to 12,415,286 (a margin of 592,682). This total does not include the results from Florida or Michigan. However, it also does not include results from Iowa, Nevada, Washington, and Maine, which have not released popular vote totals.
If you add up the popular vote in all the states that the DNC allowed into the process, here’s the current result:
Obama: 13,335,159
Clinton: 12,629,468
(margin: 705,691 votes)
We all know the Clintons’ delegate count is very hard to see overcoming Obama’s. But the popular vote is in a similar situation. If at the end of it all, one candidate has more delegates and more votes, why is there a question about who won?
Clinton and the Gays
I still don’t get it. I can see lesbian support – on gender grounds alone and, alas, identity politics is very potent in lesbian political culture. But why gay men should seek more Clintonism escapes me. A reader proffers a theory:
At a cocktail party this weekend I was talking to a friend and his boyfriend – both are rabid Clintonites – and I’m asking questions like Why did she attack Rick Lazio for not releasing his taxes, yet now she is doing the same? Why did Bill refuse to release his medical records when he ran even though Dole did, is this a pattern with them? If she takes credit for Bill’s presidency then shouldn’t she be tarred with DOMA?
And listening to his defense I realized what it reminded me of. It wasn’t the defense of a politician whom he admired, he sounded like somebody 40 years older defending Judy Garland or Liza Minelli: "Oh, life has been so cruel to them, but didn’t they come through it with fire and glamour?!".
Perhaps Hillary constantly playing the victim has worked somewhat. Apparently my gay brethern don’t feel like they are defending a politics, they feel that they are sticking up for a tragic aging Diva whoes life and glamour is fading but who can always count on her shrinking gay fan club to buy up every ticket to her "Comeback Concert".
It reminds me of the line out of Absolutely Fabulous, Eddie says to her gay ex husband when he comments on how fabulous Patsy’s older sister is. "A bitch with a drug habit and you’re anybody’s aren’t you."
Not that Hillary has a drug habit. If you don’t count Bill.
The View From Your Window
St. Louis, Missouri, 9 am.
