It's the Economy, Stupid

NOBEL PRIZE winning economists say that Obama would be best for the economy. I think Obama needs to include some of this stuff in an ad.

1000 Years

JOHN MCCAIN. The Straight Talk Express runs into a ditch.

Obama's Running Mate

WHAT generational divide?

Obama Condemns Wright

I CAN'T quite wrap my mind around all of this just yet. But for now, here is Obama's response to the latest spectacle that is Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.

The Kitchen Sink?

FOR ALL of the faucets and drains and nuts and bolts and gaskets and washers that Hillary Rodham Nixon has thrown at Barack Obama, and for all the artillery she claims she's already ducked or shot back against, she ain't seen nothing yet:

My point is that Hillary Clinton has not, in fact, survived the worst that the Republican attack machine (and its pilotless drones online and on talk radio) can dish out. We will learn what the worst really means if she is nominated. The Commie law firm will be only the beginning. Many tempting targets—from Bill’s little-examined fund-raising and business activities during the past seven years to the prospect of his hanging around the White House in some as yet undefined role for another four or eight years to whatever leftovers from the Clinton “scandals” of the nineteen-nineties can be retrieved from the dumpster and reheated—remain to be machine-gunned. The whole Clinton marital soap opera, obviously off limits within the Democratic fold, will offer ample material for what Obama calls “distractions.” To take the most obvious example, the former President’s social life since leaving the White House will become, if not “fair game,” big game—and some of these right-wing dirtbags are already hiring bearers and trying on pith helmets for the safari. Is this a “there” where the Democratic Party really wants to go?

We'll see.

Sassy Sarah

I CAN'T give you anything but quintessential Sarah.

Hope

One Tremendous IF YOU to the Process

BRILLIANT. Just brilliant. Please send this to superdelegates right now.

Winning the War

Reuters

YES, OBAMA lost. He lost the battle.

But he ran against Mrs. Nixon, Mrs. Nixon's victimhood, President Clinton, and their 15 years of campaign history in the Keystone state; the Pennsylvania Democratic party machine led by Gov. Ed Rendell; Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter; Pittsburgh mayor Luke Ravenstahl ; John McCain, ABC, Fox, CNN and MSNBC; and his own foot-in-mouth bitter comments and lackluster performance at that hit job folks still want to call a debate. Am I missing anything?

And yet, he only lost the Pennsylvania primary by 9 points after being behind 26 points in polls right after the Reverend Wright videos looped nonstop on cable news and the Internet.

One doesn't need to be a politician to spin that as a a big step toward victory in the war. Because she didn't score a huge victory in a state tailor-made for one, Mrs. Nixon will have to win 71% of the popular vote in the remaining states to catch up to Obama in pledged delegates.

I'm not afraid of what happens from here on out. But it's going to get ugly. Really ugly. And the intent will be to destroy Obama's humanity to bring him down.

North Carolina and Indiana are next up in two weeks. Obama is polling extremely well in North Carolina and almost even in Indiana where he delivered his concession speech last night.

Republicans are terrified of running against Obama. The North Carolina Republicans are about to start an overtly racist ad campaign against Obama starting tomorrow. The maker of the Willie Horton ad is about to air racial ads in North Carolina starting tomorrow.

Mrs. Nixon is going to keep running her fearmongering Kitchen ad which features an image of Osama bin Laden. The first time a Democratic candidate has used that image in any election since 9/11. And ad that also, ironically, suggests that the Black man—the one we should be afraid of, the one they've cast as a Black radical Islamofascist Manchurian Candidate terrorist—is a pansy wimp. A contortion worthy of a circus act.

In her victory speech, Mrs. Nixon co-opted many of Obama's "empty words" and used them as her own. And she once again shamelessly promoted her woman-ness as the reason she must, must, must be president.

Obama lost the battle. But he will win the war.

We will win the war. We have to fight to win, and we will not give in.

Love Her, Nurture Her