It was an exciting weekend. The only thing more nauseating than Chris Matthew's repeated verbal fallatio to Obama is the fact that people are still taking Mike Huckabee seriously. For those of you out of the loop, Huckabee is a social conservative, and a true to heart economic populist who possesses a level of sanity comparible guys with names such as Pat Buchanan and Jerry Falwell.
Mitt Romney, arguably the politician with the best hair, is clinging desperately to Michigan, attempting to not follow his father's footsteps of failure over four decades ago. Meanwhile, McCain is capitalizing on the momentum gained from New Hampshire and sparring against the CEO-friendly corporate crusader. GOP leaders are flocking to McCain for support after Romney lost both New Hamspire and Iowa, causing Romney's $400 haircut to thin and gray a little.
Huckabee managed gave a pathetic speech on C-Span in which he called the music Motown underrated. As I watched, I was reminded of that guy who goes to Japan and tries to talk to girls about Anime and videogames and is surprised that the Japanese women don't like him any more than the American women do.
Watching C-SPan this morning, The Washington Post had a bunch of callers speaking their mind on politics. It's a nice gesture. One caller was a 62-year old black guy from South Carolina who insisted that everyone knows that Obama can't win the election. "The media knows it, the Republican knows it," he went on.
This cynicism seems to lurk in the shadows of the campaign trail. "We're not ready for a female president," or We're not ready for a black president," or "Barack will probably be shot if he wins." In my travels and interviews conducted, the majority of people saying things like this are the members of the superstitious and cowardly lot who stay away from actually participating in the republic. They see the political process as some arcane and mysterious force that guides their lives without their input. They don't seem to remember that we don't live in Pakistan.
I remember the cover of The Chicago Tribune last year when Obama officially announced his run for President. Headshots of Obama and Clinton with the headline: The Race is On. This weekend, with the political turmoil surrounding Clinton's comments about Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King, saw a great many black people coming out of the woodwork to slam Hillary. We once again saw Bill put on damage control and my futile and slightly naive hopes that this wouldn't turn into a race/gender issue were magnificently shattered.
According the Rasmussen Market's Data, Clinton leads Obama among white voters 41% to 26% while Obama leads Clinton 66% to 16%. It's no wonder that according to Real Clear Politics, Obama is leading Clinton 42.7% to 32% in South Carolina. CNN/Zogby/ABC are predicting that Clinton or Obama could beat any GOP candidate but they've been wrong before. Look at New Hampshire.
The 10 year anniversary of Matt Drudge's career starting is coming up on the 17th. More on Monica Lewinsky later.
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