Clinton to endorse Obama on Saturday
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So SAYETH The New York Times a few minutes ago.
UPDATE: Al Giordano has a pretty good TAKE on this story.
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Hillary asks ex-Freeporter to launch campaign to win her the nod as Obama’s running mate
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Robert Johnson, who grew up in Freeport and went on to become America’s first black billionaire as the founder of Black Entertainment Television, SAYS Hillary Clinton has asked him to launch a campaign to get Barack Obama to offer her the veep slot.
Five months ago, Johnson took a CHEAP SHOT at Obama in connection with the Illinois senator’s admitted use of drugs as a teenager. Johnson later apologized, but there were numerous other instances in which Clinton surrogates smeared Obama with racial innuendoes and such.
UPDATE: Obama has APPOINTED a three-person team, headed by Caroline Kennedy, to help screen potential running mates. None of the three are Clintonistas.
POSTSCRIPT: The more I think about it, the more I consider efforts by Bob Johnson (and the insufferable Lanny Davis, I’ve learned in the past hour) likely to doom any chance that Obama would pick Hillary for veep. This guys have political tin ears. The last thing Obama wants to do at this point is show himself so weak as to bow to a petition drive favoring Clinton as running mate — a petition drive headed by leaders of Hillary’s pack of sore losers. Remember where you heard it: Obama definitely will not pick Clinton. He’d be crazy to do that.
Here’s another McCain-Obama electoral map
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Yesterday, I shared with you an ELECTORAL MAP of the McCain-Obama race from DailyKos.
Today, I give you another such map (above), this one from Open Left. Details can be found HERE.
In both cases, Obama leads McCain in electoral votes.
Priest denies Communion to pro-life Republican
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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has indicated that Catholics are free to vote for pro-choice political candidates as long as these voters don’t support the candidates’ liberal views on abortion.
But this didn’t prevent a certain priest from recently denying Communion to a certain pro-life Republican who’s had the temerity to support Barack Obama for president.
E.J. Dionne SAYS this episode has touched off a “wildfire in Catholic circles.”
OK! OK! Here’s the Obama speech
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I just got a phone call faulting me for failing to post Barack Obama’s victory speech from last night.
It runs about half an hour, and it’s pretty good:
I want to be kind to John McCain here, but…
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If last night was the start of the general election campaign, presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain can be said to have stumbled out of the gate.
McCain’s speech to a small crowd in New Orleans was so badly staged and poorly delivered — leaving aside its content — that even many a Republican partisan gave it poor reviews, as we see HERE and HERE.
Mr. Straight Talk’s awkwardness in dealing with the TelePrompters was just one of his problems. He also had difficulty with his feigned smiles and chuckles, which seemed to have been scripted.
Check it out for yourselves:
Pssst! Senator! It’s over! You lost!
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Andrew Sullivan has a ROUNDUP OF REACTIONS to Hillary Clinton’s stunningly graceless non-concession speech last night.
UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal has yet another POST-MORTEM on Hillary’s failed campaign.
“People died so tonight could happen”
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Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News puts Barack Obama’s successful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
UPDATE: HERE’s another historical take on Obama’s political feat.