Five Years Later
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Tie: Red, with dots.
Segue: None, as there were no Best Persons.
Worst Person: BillO (again, jeez!), for gloating about landing an interview with Sen. Clinton.

Joe Andrew of Indiana, superdelegate and former National Chairman of the DNC, has switched his vote from Clinton to Obama. Thus far, the Clinton campaign’s response has been to question his Indiana roots. Well, that’ll learn us. This now brings the superdelegate count as of today to Obama 249, Clinton 272. And, summoned by campaign mathematics, Chuck Todd joins to discuss the delegate game. (Anybody else think poor Mr. Todd probably repeats delegate counts in his sleep?)

The issue of electability is brought up once again as polls try to predict which Democratic candidate is more electable come November. Cue another portion of Meredith Vieira’s interview with the Obamas.

Bushed! Telecom executives would very much like to get out of the over forty civil suits brought against them for breaking eavesdropping rules, the anti-terrorist watchlist is now so big that the names of some federal marshalls whose job it is to find terrorists are now too similar to some names on the watchlist - possibly because Nelson Mandela and most of the ANC are still on the list from the 1970s, and Blackwater just can’t seem to find investors. I cannot imagine why.

In a continuation of the Batshit McCrazy, John Hagee is now attacking Harry Potter as well. Not to mention the lack of the Ten Commandments posted in schools. (Two minor quibbles here. First, the Harry Potter/Ten Commandments diatribe is from November, and, while that doesn’t make it any less nutbally or bad for McCain, I don’t like that the news shows are treating this as if it happened this week. Second, Southern Decadence is a weekend-long gay pride festival that’s been around in one form or another since 1972, not just a parade.)  We then cut back to Vieira’s interview with the Obamas, and the kerfluffle surrounding Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Today is the fifth anniversary of Bush’s declaration of “Mission Accomplished.” Five. Years. Since then, the Bush Administration has been trying to distance itself from the “Mission Accomplished” banner. Dana Perino yet again shows off her intellectual prowess by repeating some of the worst propaganda I’ve ever heard (and by worst, I mean “stupidest”), that the banner should have been more specific. (Good luck trying to fit “Mission Accomplished for These Sailors Who are on This Ship on Their Mission” on a banner, Ms. Perino.) Rachel Maddow joins to discuss the utter stupidity of the Bush Administration, McCain’s flip-flopping (you know, again), the outrage of the American people, and what we can expect a year from now, three months into the next President’s term.

That’s it for me, everybody. Happy May Day, and I’ll see you next week.


Keith has a new diary entry on Daily Kos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/2/115219/2226/754/507740

Here is a funny (but not as good) follow up to the “Baracky” video that Keith featured, sans himself. I have a feeling there are more than one or two here that may be a fan the “Star Wars” ;) Here is a link to, “The Empire Strikes Barack” (Keith is included, perhaps he will show a bit tonight):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8lvc-azCXY

Oh, GM, thank you for that link. Wonderful. Still smiling. As a Star Wars fan surrounded by children who are Star Wars freaks, this was much appreciated. I plan to watch this numerous times.

Olberfann, thank you for the link to the Daily Kos entry. I have never quite figured out how that site works.

I did not read all 600 + comments, but a quick scan shows a lot of fans for Rachel as well.

As for last night’s show, I love that jacket no matter what, and that tie was “snazzy” with it. (I think that “snazzy” is from the same era as the jacket’s style.)

No problem, Rafismom. I really needed something to cheer me up. I found the link via Wonkette. Sadly the famous Star Wars line..”I have a bad feeling about this…” seems to apply to Obama right now. I feel the Wright stuff, Racism, FoxNews, the Clintons endless pandering are all too much. Even if Sen. Clinton doesn’t manage to wrestle the nomination away, I think he is too damaged to win.