Don’t know why, always wind up watching CNN when it’s politics. Wolf Blitzer and CNN - like everyone else - annointing Obama as the Democratic nominee.
“This historic moment,” Blitzer intoned - and it’s true. That the United States - 160 years after slavery and civil war, 50 years after the inception of the Civil Rights […]

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Ruh-roh:
The former first lady gave no public hint of quitting the race, and she has said repeatedly she might continue her candidacy even beyond the end of the primaries.
But her husband, former President Clinton, strongly suggested otherwise. “This may be the last day I’m ever involved in a campaign of this kind,” he said as […]

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Hillary cruises in Kentucky, and it doesn’t mean much:
As recently as May 6, Obama trailed Clinton among superdelegates, the officeholders and party leaders who will attend the national convention by virtue of their positions.
But in the days following his convincing victory in the North Carolina primary and his narrow defeat in Indiana, Obama has […]

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And why not, because that’s what we’ll all be doing later tonight anyway.
Most prognosticators see a Hillary win in Indiana tonight - 5 points or so, probably - but Drudge is reporting that some on her staff expect a “stinging” defeat in North Carolina - a loss by 15 points or more.
If this bears out, dunno […]

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See, you know, when Republicans play the race card, I expect that from them. When Democrats do it, it’s just execrable - but, as Will Bunch notes, maybe in states like this one it’s to be expected:
A sculptor brought in to mold a Hillary Clinton voter would have crafted Geraldine Ferraro from scratch. She’s 72 […]

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Kevin Drum, attempting to reassure lefties that a bloody primary campaign well into the spring wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing, invokes 1968:
The Democratic incumbent president was forced to withdraw after a primary debacle in New Hampshire. The Vietnam War had split liberals into warring factions and urban riots had shattered the LBJ’s Great Society […]

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So Obama cruises once again, notching his 10th win in a row, and the momentum seems unstoppable. This, despite the bogus plagiarism flap earlier in the week; and the margins are once again stunning - not so much in Hawaii (Obama 76 percent, Hillary 24 percent) but certainly in Wisconsin - where Obama won 58-41.
Obama, […]

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Obama sweeps three more primaries, and now Obama’s campaign manager says - plausibly - that it’s now he who projects the aura of inevitability, that Obama may have a lead of up to 136 delegates - and Hillary can’t catch him.
Well, maybe. The race is obviously far from over; but Obama’s momentum is both tangible […]

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Tony Norman at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wonders about Gov. Ed’s “blunt talk” on race, and how Obama’s might prevent some Pennsylvanians for voting for him:
“You’ve got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate,” he said bluntly. Our eyes only met briefly, […]

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NYT has Hillary and her aides thinking that if she doesn’t take both Texas and Ohio on March 4, she’s toast:
Mrs. Clinton held a buck-up-the-troops conference call on Monday with donors, superdelegates and other supporters; several said afterward that she had sounded tired and a little down, but determined about Ohio and Texas.
They also said […]

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Fareed Zakaria, in a Newsweek piece on Hillary vs. Obama, on how Hillary remains stuck in the old dichotomy:
Bill and Hillary Clinton grew up in an era of Republican dominance. For much of the last 30 years, the Republican Party has been the party of ideas (a point made repeatedly by Daniel Patrick Moynihan), and Ronald […]

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Sullivan’s doing all primary all the time today, and his reaction to last night’s Hillary win is close to my own - a whiff of despair. 
On the surface, a partisan like me is supposed to be in favor of a Hillary candidacy. Yes, she’s a polarizing figure - but what would be better than jamming […]

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OMG! Can you believe Obama maybe once smoked a little dope? That should totally disqualify him from office. I think we should only elect people who have never even looked at drugs, never even considered alcohol before they turned 21 - and continued to shun it even afterwards. And who narked on those who didn’t […]

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Will wonders never cease?
Brody: Some Republicans like Giuliani and others said that some Democratic candidates refuse to talk about a global war on terror and Islamic terrorists. Do you believe there is a global war on terror?
Biden: Sure there is, but with these guys, he knows so little about foreign policy he confuses terrorists cells […]

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Il Dunce makes a funny. Or maybe his speechwriters do.
Sullivan, yesterday, made the succinct point here:
I’ve now heard Dodd and Clinton say that the president takes an oath to defend the Constitution and the territory and people of the United States. This is the president’s oath of office:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will […]

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Didn’t watch the debate. Don’t care. Hillary is inevitable - unless Gore runs, and who knows - and it doesn’t matter how poorly Hillary did or how much she flip-flopped, it doesn’t matter how she triangulated and parsed everything. Obama seems to be fumbling, Edwards is too far behind and we are going to get […]

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Over at Sullivan’s place there’s this debate going on about Hillary - how the right is specifically using the spectre of Hillary to raise money, to galvanize supporters. Sullivan has suggested repeatedly that were the Democrats to nominate Hillary it would be a bad move for a lot of reasons -but primarily because of her […]

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Well, I suppose this comes as no surprise. The top three Democratic presidential candidates today all admitted that sure, they’re opposed to the way the war in Iraq was handled - but it’s not like they’re going to pull out or anything.
Hillary, John Edwards and Barack Obama all talked about reducing the number of combat troops. But […]

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Obama is, in my view, the best candidate, the most authentic candidate in the race by a longshot. Apparently some conservatives agree:
“I see Obama as representing a different kind of politician,” Martin told the Post. “I think a lot of us are just really wary of the Republican Party and are looking for something new. His message of […]

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Good. You remember how the wingers got their knickers in a collective twist when first John Edwards, then Obama and Clinton pulled out of a previously scheduled debate on Fox because - obviously - Fox News is so overtly biased that there is no way the Democratic candidates would get anything remotely resembling a “fair and […]

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