The Political Chase

Sermon on the Mount

Olbermann: "Terry McAuliffe said it would be the greatest speech of all time. And there it was, tied with the Sermon on the Mount."

Fearing Obama

Olbermann:  "The only thing we have to fear is Obama himself."
That was an advance excerpt from the greatest speech ever, but hasn’t been delivered yet. It is supposed to begin at 9:05 PM ET.
On a side note, don’t count on the returns to come in quickly. They apparently are using an abacuses rather than computers. [...]

Nets Call It For Hillary

All the nets have called West Virginia for Hillary.
Also, if you’re not in close proximity to a teevee, run, don’t walk, run and turn it on! History will be made tonight!! Terry McAuliffe said Hillary Clinton would deliver the best speech ever tonight.

West Virginia

% Votes

Total Votes

Clinton

59%

21,122

Obama

34%

12,611

Precincts reporting

9%

Updated: 8:59PM ET
 
 

MSNBC: [...]

Kurtz, the media, and Saint Hillary of the Down-Trodden

While I don’t always agree with Howard Kurtz, especially when he places himself in the middle and serves as a scribe rather than a critic, his criticism today of the media’s coverage of Hillary’s never-ending campaign is fitting and appropriate. As Kurtz points out, it’s far more important to continue covering Hillary than it is [...]

McClatchy: ‘Group pushing Clinton as VP choice tied to her campaign’

McClatchy has impeccable journalism standards and some of the best journalists in the business, all of which adds substantially to the credibility of this piece on the force behind the Hillary for VP movement. 
A group called VoteBoth has been leading the charge for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up on the Democratic [...]

Clinton campaign hemorrhaging money

Hillary’s campaign admitted she is $20 million in debt. And guess what? It’s going to get considerably worse. There are approximately 23 days left in the primary season and it costs roughly $1 million per day to run the campaign. She may have gotten that $10 million bump after the Pennsylvania primary, but they [...]

The Pantsuit Rules

Hillary actually said this in a Grafton, W.V. stump speech: "It’s not over until the lady in the pantsuit says it is."

SNL Turns on Hillary

Hillary enjoyed the support of SNL, but no more. Here’s “Hillary” from last night’s show talking about her position in the race.

Taking on the Republicans

Hillary in Kentucky today:
"The only way we can have a Democrat in that White House come next January is to win in November, and we cannot win unless we can win 270 electoral votes," she said. "Look at the map, figure out where we’re going to get those votes, and which candidate is more likely [...]

Hillary’s lasting success in West Virginia

(Updated below)
The Los Angeles Times illustrates today how much the people of West Virginia oppose, to put it mildly, Barack Obama. Hatred of blacks existed in West Virginia long before Barack Obama came into the picture and no one could reasonably argue that many of these bigots would ever vote for any African-American running for [...]

‘Presumptive Nominee’ Obama Gains 7 Delegates, Clinton Nets 0 Today

Maybe a wave is beginning.
Obama has a net gain of seven superdelegates today. One jumped ship from the Clinton camp, but Clinton added a delegate giving her a net gain of zero. Also Rep. Rahm Emmanuel (D-IL), a long-time Clinton supporter, referred to Obama as the "presumptive nominee," but has not endorsed either candidate [...]

Media and Pollsters Will End Clinton’s Candidacy if Superdelegates Will Not

The polling firm Rasmussen has decided it will no longer track the Democratic race, but instead will focus on the general election and Hillary will not be included in its surveys. When the media and the polling firms start abandoning a candidate, it doesn’t matter what kind of argument the candidate makes — their [...]

Noonan: Even Richard Nixon Didn’t Say That

Peggy Noonan is exactly right. She rips Hillary Clinton, and the party, to pieces — both justifiably.

White Americans? Hard-working white Americans? “Even Richard Nixon didn’t say white,” an Obama supporter said, “even with the Southern strategy.”
If John McCain said, “I got the white vote, baby!” his candidacy would be over. And rising in highest indignation [...]

One Person, One Vote

Hillary Clinton declared in an interview with USA Today that she should be the Democratic presidential nominee because she has a “winning coalition” comprised of “hard-working Americans, white Americans” and “whites…who had not completed college.” Not only are Clinton’s remarks racist, but they are inconsistent with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
In her [...]

Racist pattern ‘emerged’ months ago, not yesterday

Did Hillary make these racist remarks in an interview with USA Today before or after congressional leaders promised to intervene if the campaign “took on a negative tone” or the Clinton campaign attacked Barack Obama?
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in the interview, citing an article by [...]