Archive for June 2nd, 2008
June 2nd, 2008
OK, the last two Democratic presidential primary elections are set for tomorrow in Montana and South Dakota, after which the nomination will be unofficially wrapped up.
Barack Obama will win both states by double-digit percentage-point margins. Yeah, there’s been a buzz today to the effect that Hillary Clinton might pull off an upset in South Dakota, but I’m here to tell you it won’t happen.
Scads of super delegates will announce for Obama tomorrow and tomorrow night, thereby ending the contest.
Hillary will withdraw tomorrow night or Wednesday, and she’ll appear jointly with Obama on Wednesday or Thursday.
POSTSCRIPT: Thomas Edsall of HuffPo has THIS about the Clinton campaign packing it in.
June 2nd, 2008
The latest Gallup poll SHOWS that two-thirds of Americans, including almost half of those who identify themselves as Republicans, agree with Barack Obama that it’s good policy for the U.S. president to meet with leaders of countries considered our enemies.
John McCain (who’s been having trouble understanding who’s who and what’s what in Iraq) and his best buddy George W. Bush say that talking with our adversaries is tantamount to appeasement.
POSTSCRIPT: At no extra charge, HERE’S AN ITEM wherein it’s argued that McCain gets his “assessments of Iraq terribly wrong” despite his many visits there. The charge is made by war correspondent Michael Ware, who’s spent far more time in Iraq than has McCain.
June 2nd, 2008
Bo Diddley, who did more than Elvis Presley (but a little less than Chuck Berry) to make me a rock ‘n roll fanatic in the 1950s, DIED MONDAY at the age of 79.
Some disk jockey, I forget who, once sagely observed: “If you don’t know Bo, you just don’t know.”
Here’s a little taste of the man’s music:
June 2nd, 2008
Retired Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the former commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, RECALLS an episode in which President Bush got his swagger on — big time!
June 2nd, 2008
I want to share with you this video I ran across this morning on AmericaBlog.
It’s from Disability Awareness Day last summer at Fenway Park in Boston. When a mentally-challenged young man has some difficulty leading the singing of the National Anthem, the crowd helps him out rather than jeers him or makes fun of him:
