Today, Clinton campaign manager Terry McAuliffe said that Clinton has overcome Barack Obama in the total popular vote.
Huh?
Currently, Florida and Michigan don’t count (because they broke the rules), and Clinton trails by almost 700,000 votes. But Clinton claims that you can’t ignore all those voters in Florida and Michigan. Even so, if you count them, she is still behind by 77,000 votes.
It turns out that the only way you can possibly get a result where Clinton is ahead in the popular vote is if you DON’T count the states that held caucuses, and DO count Florida and Michigan. In other words, it isn’t fair to ignore the voters in Florida or Michigan, but it is fair to ignore the voters in over a dozen states that held caucuses.
The 20-year-old Bill O’Reilly Rage video that has been running around the web wasn’t all that surprising — I used to work in TV and have seen far worse than that from weather-persons. But Colbert’s take-off is priceless.
This is another one of those stories that you just couldn’t make up.
In an interview Tuesday, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families. He gave up playing golf. “I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., greets Obama supporter Doris Smith during a campaign stop at Tudor’s Biscuit World in Charleston, W. Va. Monday, May 12, 2008. ‘Oh, I didn’t want to do this,’ Smith said, embarrassed, who was wearing the Obama T-shirt as Clinton walked into the restaurant. ‘I didn’t know she was going to be here.’
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In one of the more ironic episodes of the Bush Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation last week raided the office and home of the senior official in charge of protecting Federal whistleblowers on suspicion of whistleblower retaliation within his own agency – while he was investigating possible criminal acts within the White House. … In yet another irony, the FBI raid on Bloch’s office and home came as Congress prepared to mark Washington Whistleblower Week, May 12-16, and on the sixth anniversary of the passage of the No FEAR Act in 2002.
I’m not totally sure what to make of this case, as it is too weird. According to Jeff Ruch, the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Protection, a whistle-blower group, “It’s like finding out that your town fire chief is an arsonist. It’s just sort of jaw-dropping how bizarre this entire episode has been.”
In response to claims that she has no chance of winning the nomination, Clinton has asserted that pledged delegates are allowed to switch sides and vote for her at the convention. Unlike Superdelegates, who are free to support either candidate, pledged delegates are supposedly promised to a specific candidate.
Well, we now know that Clinton is right. One of her pledged delegates (Jack B. Johnson of Maryland, picked in consultation with the Clinton campaign) has switched sides to Obama.
Saddled with a very unpopular president, and losing elections even in heavily Republican districts, the Republicans are trying to grab a piece of the “change” mandate. So on Wednesday, Congressional Republicans will start rolling out their new policy agenda, complete with a new slogan (drum roll please…) “The Change You Deserve“.
Unfortunately, the Republicans seem to have plagiarized this slogan. “The Change You Deserve” is the registered advertising slogan for the popular drug Effexor XR, used for the treatment of depression, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder in adults. And it is a red pill with a large “W” on it! Even its side effects will sound familiar — nausea, apathy, constipation, fatigue, vertigo, sexual dysfunction, sweating, memory loss, and (are you ready for this?) “electric shock-like sensations also called ‘brain zaps’.”
Ralph Hardy, a 13-year-old boy, confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father’s existing credit card company and taking his friends on a $30,000 spending spree, including playing “Halo” with a couple of prostitutes in a Texas motel.
The prostitutes told the arresting officers they suspected something was up when the kids (who claimed they were undersized adults) said they would rather play Xbox than get down to business. But the topper — and why this made it into this blog — is that Ralph’s ambition is to one day become a politician.
Last Friday (days after the pundits had already declared the race over) 11-year-old Dalton Hatfield presented a check for $440 to former President Bill Clinton. Hatfield feels so strongly that Hillary Clinton should be the next president that he sold his bicycle, some video games, and other items to raise money. “I was thinking one day how could I make money for the campaign,” he says. “And I just went through my closet and found things I didn’t need.”
UPDATE: In honor of this flub, the Suitably Flip website is actually selling flag pins with 57 stars. As they say, it’s the perfect accessory for the ironic Obama supporter, and a wonderful “substitute for true patriotism”!
And Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic points out that if McCain had made the same flub, it would surely be pointed to as evidence of senility.
