Some things that happened in the world today while I was flying down the side of a mountain...
+ Mark Penn apparently believes that Clinton's victories in Texas and Ohio "broke [Obama's] momentum completely." Good to see that they aren't getting overconfident after going 3-12 over the past month. [And after netting -17 delegates in the last week alone.]
+ Its just one data point, but Gallup would seem to suggest that Penn is, well... wrong.
+ Not that there wasn't any reason to expect this, but Ken Mehlman and Karl Rove are set to join the McCain campaign. I know this will terrify some on the left, but I actually welcome this development. Like Penn, Rove is highly overrated - he got lucky once or twice and suddenly everyone decided they had to cower in fear. But he's been wrong far more often that he has been right, so I really don't understand what there is to be afraid of.
+ And while I'm on the subject, have I mentioned that Rove is a dick? Because he is a dick.
+ Obama is responding directly to Clinton's nonsensical "he's not ready to be Commander in Chief, but he'd make a great Vice President" argument:
With all due respect, I've won twice as many states as Sen. Clinton. I've won more of the popular vote than Sen. Clinton. I have more delegates than Sen. Clinton. So, I don't know how somebody who's in second place is offering the vice presidency to the person who's in first place...
But there's a second point. This is an interesting point -- I want you guys to follow me on this. You know Pres. Bill Clinton, back in 1992, when he was being asked about his selection for vice president, he said, "The only criteria, the most important criteria for vice president, is that that person is ready, if I fell out in the first week, that he or she would be ready to be the commander-in-chief." That was his criteria.Now, they have been spending the last two, three weeks -- you remember that advertisement with the phone call, telling everybody, getting all the generals to say well we're not sure he's ready, "I'm ready on day one, he may not be ready yet."
But I don't understand. If I'm not ready, how is it that you think I should be such a great vice president? Do you understand that?
See, I was trying to explain to someone the "okey-doke." Y'all know the okey-doke? It's when someone's trying to bamboozle you, when they're trying to hoodwink you. They are trying to hoodwink you. You can't say that he's not ready on day one, unless he's willing to be your vice president and then he's ready on day one.
I want everybody to be absolutely clear -- I'm not running for vice president, I'm running for president of the United States of America.
I'm running for president of the United States of America. I'm running to be commander-in-chief. And the reason I'm running to be commander-in-chief is because I believe that the most important thing when you answer that phone call at 3 in the morning is: What kind of judgment you have?
+ Apparently this argument isn't working very well for Clinton, because spokesman Harold Ickes is already walking - no, strike that - running back his previous comments. Apparently Obama may be ready in 3 months. Which is funny, given that Hillary has spent weeks touting her "lifetime of experience." I guess Obama is just a summer away from a lifetime. Or something...
+ Obama's picking up more Super Delegates today. Including, oddly enough, one in Illinois. It turns out that upset in the Special Election over the weekend works out to Obama's advantage. All totaled, that's a net of +15 +16 +17 for Obama this week, even including the results of last Tuesday's primaries. And Obama has cut Hillary's triple-digit Super Delegate lead to less than 20.
+ NY Gov. Spitzer has been caught up in a federal investigation of a high priced prostitution ring. Oops. So much for his presidential aspirations, I guess.
+ Also... as it turns out, Spitzer was a Super for Clinton. No idea yet what that means, but its hard to imagine the DNC will allow him to keep his status as a Super.
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