Thursday, March 27, 2008

Another new hopeless Clinton talking point

From the folks who brought you the "Hillary's won the biggest states" and the "you should only count electoral votes for the primaries" (???) folks comes a new howler. Bill, take it away:
"Right now, among all the primary states, believe it or not, Hillary's only 16 votes behind in pledged delegates," said Bill Clinton, "and she's gonna wind up with the lead in the popular vote in the primary states. She's gonna wind up with the lead in the delegates [from primary states]."
Oh, Bill. If you'd only put one tenth of the energy you put into spinning your wife's desperate campaign into an actual contest into spinning your health care plan, she would be losing the nomination to Vice President Joe Lieberman instead of Barack Obama, which would undoubtedly suit you more since Lieberman loves America so damn much.

Note to Hillary's rapid response team: the eagle has escaped the cage. Shut it down.
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Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.