And loses the opening battle to Greenwald.
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Edwards endorses Obama.
What about his delegates? Anyone have any idea how that will play out?
Surgery Update
Turns out, it wasn’t a tumor at all. Everything is fine. Surgery took about 20 minutes. It’s funny, I have had 2 previous surgeries that involved general anesthesia. I’ve always remembered the “going to sleep” part. This time, I don’t remember a damned thing.
So, anyway, how about a bit of sanity from Hillary to celebrate?
Hillary Clinton today reiterated her vow to stay in the presidential race, but she said it would be a “terrible mistake” for her supporters to vote for John McCain over Barack Obama.
Random Thoughts and Links
1.) Broder takes a buyout. Broder and Bush both gone within a 20 day period- 2009 is shaping up to be a very good year.
2.) Count me as a fan of Glade Plug-ins. I prefer Clean Linen.
3.) Must be a slow day at the Sadly, No! empire, as they, too, attempt to justify cheating.
4.) I need a high quality microphone and a solid set of earphones for the mac at work. Any suggestions?
5.) The Heather Bresch scandal gets more interesting.
6.) NARAL endorses the magical unity pony. I expect a certain contingent of the Hillary supporting blogosphere will launch another wildly successful letter-writing campaign shortly.
7.) I don’t care what you haters say, I still like the band Rush. Listening to them right now, as a matter of fact.
8.) WV Supreme Court Chief Justice Elliot “Spike” Myanard, who was caught cruising the French Riviera with the CEO of Massey Energy, lost yesterday.
9.) Thank you, Hillary:
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday reiterated her vow to stay in the Democratic presidential race, but she said it would be a “terrible mistake” for her supporters to vote for John McCain over Barack Obama.
Sen. Hillary Clinton vowed to stay in the race, saying she’s “not going anywhere.”
“Anybody who has ever voted for me or voted for Barack has much more in common in terms of what we want to see happen in our country and in the world with the other than they do with John McCain,” Clinton said on CNN’s “The Situation Room.”
“I’m going to work my heart out for whoever our nominee is — obviously I’m still hoping to be that nominee, but I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that anyone who supported me … understands what a grave error it would be not to vote for Sen. Obama.”
10.) Another bloated farm bill. This time weighing in at $290 billion.
More as I remember the other stuff I was thinking about earlier.
Audacity
How come none of you told me how amazing Audacity is and I had to find out on my own?
Jerks. This may be the best piece of freeware since WinZip or LView.
Still Making Their Own Reality
This is precious:
Rep. Tom Davis stomped on the concrete floor of the Capitol basement when asked by reporters about Republican fortunes at the moment.
“This is the floor,” he said, by way of explanation. “We’re below the floor.”
Inside the meeting, Davis had just presented his colleagues with what he said was a 20-page memo outlining his prescription for a way out of this mess. He did not offer details to the press, yet did not spare the party and the president scathing criticism in his public comments.
“The president swallows the microphone every time he opens his mouth,” Davis said.
He believes Bush’s staunch opposition to the Democratic housing bill and the SCHIP bill, for example, is hurting rank and file. Look at yesterday’s vote on the SPRO, where Republicans defied the president in droves. Lo and behold, the White House says today that it will not veto the bill.
No one could have predicted that loudly opposing insurance for children while investigating a 12 year old’s countertops would be bad politically.
I hope the Republicans keep listening to the Malkin/Red State wing of the GOP and call for more purity- that will really show them! We just haven’t been conservative enough! We haven’t stayed true to our conservative roots! I think Dick Cheney should be McCain’s VP! Or George Allen!
I really should not be enjoying this so much, but I simply can not wait until the entire GOP congressional contingent consists of a few idiots from Alabama and James Inhofe.
*** Update ***
Unintentional comedy at Red State:
That doesn’t explain why McCain is running 15 points ahead of a generic Republican, and in fact has a decent chance to win the election.
McCain has benefited mightily from RUNNING AWAY FROM YOU WINGNUTS FOR SEVEN YEARS. Do I need to link to all the times you called him a traitor for the gang of 14, or a terrorist sympathizer for opposing torture, or treasonous for diverging on your beliefs about global warming?
Having Ann Coulter scream she would vote for Clinton over McCain and similar sentiments from you “true conservatives” as you fellated Multiple Choice Mitt and defended the failure George Bush was the best thing to ever happen to John McCain’s general election chances. The reason the Republican brand is toxic is because they listened to you “true conservatives.” Have fun with that.
PS- I hear “true conservatives” all oppose the GI BILL. I think you should all rally around opposition to that! Show them you really, really mean it! Let the whole nation see how “principled” you really are! It will be awesome, I promise!
Fafblog Interviews Hillary
This is brutal:
FB: Now, back when your husband was president he cut nine million poor women and children off welfare. But now you’re the candidate of women and poor people and poor workin women. So did you approve of what your husband did at the time, and if not are you going to reverse it as president and give all those poor people their money back?
CLINTON: Ha haaa! That’s an excellent question, Fafnir, and the only way to answer it is with a hearty chuckle followed by a complete non sequitur!
FB: Ha ha, that is so true!
CLINTON: You know, I wish I could make all those women’s lives better, I really do. But in a way, wouldn’t it help all of them even more if we could just make one woman’s life a whole lot better, and then say it sort of counts towards all those other women who aren’t getting anything? And wouldn’t it be even better-er if that one woman was me?
FB: You know, you just can’t argue with that math! Now are you running for president of Iraq, too? Because then your vote for the war totally makes sense!
CLINTON: I didn’t vote for the war, Fafnir. I voted to give the president the authority to go to war. What was he going to use that authority for? Maybe he’d just frame it and hang it in his office. Maybe he’d use it to prop up one of the legs on his desk. Maybe he’d use it to sing songs and dance jigs and lift weary spirits down at the old folks home! I honestly couldn’t say!
FB: If only you knew at the time that that devious George Bush would use a war authorization to authorize a war!
But, but, but… REV. WRIGHT HATES AMERIKKKA!