Obama intercepts Hillary’s hail mary

Drudge is calling Obama ‘the nominee.’ It’s not a done deal, but it now seems inevitable thanks to a decisive win in North Carolina and a near draw in Indiana. The aftermath though, will certainly focus more on last night’s loser.
Hillary canceled her media appearances this morning. Obviously had she not done that, she could [...]

Straight Talk Express (unless it’s politically inconvenient)

Republican John McCain was forced to clarify his comments Friday suggesting the Iraq war involved U.S. reliance on foreign oil. He said he was talking about the first Gulf War and not the current conflict.
Sure thing John, because everyone is talking about the Gulf War right now. And when you said that your energy policy [...]

McCain implies Iraq war was for oil

Tales of a shady world

I promise to make hot lunches free too!
McCain and Hillary’s unvarnished ploy for votes — the supposed “tax holiday” on gas sales across the country — is under an intense barrage of criticism.
Signs of the surveillance state
In Detroit, a mail carrier ‘illegally’ tipped off a resident that he was under postal surveillance, meaning all mail [...]

Thanks for the immunization, Hillary

Numerically the Democratic primary is over. I’ll spare you the minutia, but Hillary can’t catch up to Obama in delegates, which, unless we’re going to toss out the rules, is the only metric that counts.
Unlike some other rabid Obama supporters (yes, I’m talking about you, Keith), I’m not calling for Hillary to get out of [...]

WSJ article fortifies Obama’s remarks on rural America

WSJ rolled out an article Saturday on the rise and significance of mega-regions — essentially making the case that they are the global economy:

The real driving force of the world economy is a new and incredibly powerful economic unit: the mega-region.
Extending far beyond a single core city and its surrounding suburbs, a mega-region is an [...]

McCain: Tell me what to think, teleprompter!

Obama’s remarks on small town America spot on

Obama is under fire for telling the truth about small town America — they’ve been left behind:
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the [...]

Mark Halperin: Go Racial

In preparation for a general election he calls ‘tribal,’ Mark Halperin of Time proposes 16 points that Sen John McCain should adhere to in a likely match-up with Sen Barack Obama. One of those points has riled the blogosphere:
6. Allow some supporters to risk being accused of using the race card when criticizing Obama.
How low [...]