"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Monday, February 18, 2008

Monday morning quarterbacking

We usually spend Sunday morning with breakfast and CBS Sunday Morning
followed by ABC News: This Week with George Stephanopoulos
(DVR and zapping commercials)

Yesterday we added Meet The Press with Tim Russert
as the Democrat's nomination process is "interesting"

I guess Meet the Press was the benchmark, Chuck Schumer (for Clinton) was snarky while Dick Durban (Obama) was calm and reasoned.

Various blogs this AM

Dick Morris (no "Friend of Hill") : TheHill.com - Why Hillary will lose

On Schumer (who is already calling it Bush-McCain, I thought Cheney was VP)
Althouse: "Each candidate chooses the rule at the moment that is in their self-interest."

On the Democrats and African-Americans:
Pajamas Media: The Clintons' Unforgivable Crime:

"...former president’s racially tinged attacks on Barack Obama risk “setting black America free from the Democrat Party” — and Dems are choosing survival over the Clintons."

Then one on competency... ready on day one:

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:

"Several top Clinton strategists and fundraisers became alarmed after learning of the state's unusual provisions during a closed-door strategy meeting this month, according to one person who attended."

and

"While they were busy “discovering” the rules, however, the Obama campaign had people on the ground in Texas explaining the system, organizing precincts, and making Powerpoints. I know because I went to one of these meetings a week ago. I should have invited Mark Penn I suppose. (ed. Maybe foresight is an obsolete macrotrend.)"

Then there is this from NYTimes Week in Review on Dem's and "Super-delegates" (aka "Adult Supervision".
Good piece on all the rule making, remaking and re-remaking since summer of '68, mostly for the Democrats

Show Me the Delegate Rules and I’ll Show You the Party - New York Times

Republicans choose to get it over early

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