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More Of This, Please
Bold Stands
The Pope:
“I would not speak at this moment about homosexuality, but pedophilia which is another thing. And we would absolutely exclude pedophiles from the sacred ministry.”
“Who is guilty of pedophilia cannot be a priest,” he added.
The Pope said church officials were going through the seminaries that train would-be priests to make sure that those candidates have no such tendencies. “We’ll do all that is possible to have a strong discernment, because it is more important to have good priests than to have many priests.”
In other news, John McCain promises we will not torture Americans.
It’s The Delegates, Stupid
And while Clinton is creating and validating Republican lines of attack against Obama, it is important to remember how pointless her kneecapping is:
But we look ahead to next week’s vote in Pennsylvania a bit differently: How many delegates might each candidate win in Pennsylvania, which is the most populous of the states and territories that have yet to vote?
That answer will be mainly determined not by the sum of the votes Clinton and Obama win in Pennsylvania, but rather by the state’s parts. Pennsylvania will send 187 Democratic delegates to the party’s national convention in Denver this August, and most of them — 103 to be exact — will be allocated according to the votes the candidates receive in each of the state’s 19 congressional districts.
And a CQ Politics analysis of the political circumstances in Pennsylvania’s congressional districts, detailed below, projects an edge to Clinton — but by just 53 district-level delegates to 50 for Obama under the Democratic Party’s proportional distribution rules.
These numbers suggest that Clinton, even with a victory in Pennsylvania, would make only a small incremental gain against Obama’s overall lead in the delegate race.
Even if she blows him out (and I expect her to win by 6-12 pts), she won’t make up any real ground in the delegate race, which, as we all know (except, apparently, at Clinton HQ), is what matters. All she has is the hope that the super-delegates will give it to her, and the only way that is going to happen is if she absolutely destroys his chances at electability. And she has to do just that, because if the supers give Clinton the nomination under any circumstance other than one in which Obama is completely ruined, expect large swaths of Democrats to bail in the general. Forget the AA vote.
That is her gambit. That is her only hope. She won’t win North Carolina, Indiana will be so close as to give marginal gains, and all she has is this last hope that she can knee-cap him and get it from the supers. Of course, she most likely won’t succeed, and instead we will have a crippled Obama limping into the general against a united Republican party armed with a half year of Clinton video clips calling Obama elitist and out of touch and unelectable and stating she takes him at his word that he is not a stealth muslim. By the end of the week I fully expect her to be asking whether or not he is a Marxist.
What a clusterfuck.
The Experts Speak
And Obama’s dad was not a socialist.
Yet another bit of specious bullshit thrown up by wingnut bloggers that will, undoubtedly, be barfed up in a Howard Kurtz piece or on CNN’s situation room by the end of the week. And once again, after digging up the paper written in 1965 by Obama’s dad, the bloggers prove they don’t understand anything, and the paper, contrary to previous assertions of Marxism, proves nothing of the sort.
Is this really the farce that our elite core of right-wing bloggers have descended into- nothing more than half-witted red baiters? This is really the best they can do? Obama is a snob and a commie?
Pathetic.
Another Day, Another Disaster
The front page of the NYT:
Retailing Chains Caught in a Wave of Bankruptcies
I can’t be the only one who feels like we are one bit of bad news away from rivers of blood and plagues of locusts and hail mixed with fire. And damnit to hell, I am the first-born son in my family.
Question
Doesn’t accusing someone of elitism take for granted that the unwashed masses are resentful against elitists (one could say bitter), and will therefore revolt against him and flock to you? Just wondering.
Then there is the sad humor of a hundred-millionaire and a guy who owns eight homes accusing the much poorer candidate of elitism.