George and John BFF

Now you see me, now you don't.

Check out this amazing video of a presentation on exotic creatures and how they adapt to their surroundings. Hat Tip Chris in Paris

The horror... the horror ...

Team Clinton is sending more and more people over the edge. John Cole at http://www.balloonjuice.com/ slaps her, her husband, her advisers, and her supporters around ... and I think he might have actually held back a little ... or not.

Here are some excerpts:

"No one can drive me to the brink of madness like the Clinton family. No one. ... It is mind-numbing. This isn’t an election anymore. This is a secret bet between Bill and Hillary ala Trading Places in which they bet how much bullshit they can make the electorate swallow. ... It just never stops. ...

I know I am not a perfect person, but I like to think of myself as a good person. I am profane, I over-react, I say stupid things and sometimes mean things and then calm down and apologize, but I always try to be fair and try to do the right thing and try to give people the benefit of the doubt and I believe in forgiving people for their mistakes. I will always listen to people, even when I disagree with them. But no one, and I mean no one, has the ability to drive me so completely into madness like Team Clinton the past few months. Their non-stop nonsense just drives me insane as it dumbs down the rest of the electorate. ... and on and on and on and the bullshit just keeps coming so thick and so fast and without pause that she has well and truly driven me to utter unholy madness.

The only consolation is that I am not alone. Steve Benen, the Carpetbagger, is done. Atrios is disgusted. Tbogg is states he has never seen such a level of “intellectual dishonesty, disregard for reality on the ground, and shamelessnes” and is comparing her to Lieberman. Even Hilzoy, one of the most decent people to ever pen a blog post, is in full-on ridicule mode. Most people are looking at this train wreck, and the collective response is “WTF?” The talking heads on all of the channels are now verging on open mockery.

The talking heads on all of the channels are now verging on open mockery. ... Just make it stop, please. I am begging you. Make it stop. ... I am going to do everything in my power to ignore the Clinton campaign today, for mental health reasons. Dear God, please don’t let her compare herself to Ghandi today. I need a break."

Josh Marshall in a post labelled "Toxic" says:

"What she's doing is not securing her the nomination. Rather, she's gunning up a lot of her supporters to believe that the nomination was stolen from her -- a belief many won't soon abandon."

And here is another similar post at Americablog.com.

Their legacy is spinning down the drain.

Another world, not my own.

Banjo duet, anyone?

The Real McCain

Thank you Robert Geenwald and Brave New Films!

I'm more Bush than you are!

Obama nails it tonight:

"This year's Republican primary was a contest to see which candidate could out-Bush the other, and that is the contest John McCain won."

Bush = McCain, McCain = Bush

Another week, another bunch of bigots ...

Here we are again, a huge Clinton win followed by a big Obama win. And it still doesn't mean squat. Senator Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for President in 2008. It's all in the math.

But, once again, let's look at the results of a primary in another state in the Appalachian region. Over at DailyKos contributor DHinMI has another post and some more cool maps that show ...

"Obama does not appear to have a problem with white voters. However, Appalachia has a problem with Obama."

The exit polls show that some people in that region just won't vote for a black man.

Racism or bigotry. Take your pick.

Welcome to the Hellmouth ...

This is so cool ...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer saved the world and the sanity of NPR's Jamie Tarabay while she was in Baghdad. Tarabay explores why she needed the slayer during her time in Iraq.

Hicks in the Sticks

Hillary Clinton trounced Barrack Obama last night in the West Viginia primary ... and it doesn't mean squat as far as the nomination is concerned. Barrack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for President. It's all in the math.

But check out this post by DHinMI and this graphic from the post, which is over at DailyKos. It is titled "White Voters, Obama and Appalachia" and it is great analysis on the recent Clinton talking points that Obama can't win the support of mostly poor, white voters. DHinMI says:

"I don't believe Obama has a significant "race problem." However, I do believe that he has and will continue to have a problem with some white voters who are clustered mostly in Appalachia."

And Josh Marshall at TalkingPointsMemo adds his perspective on the Appalachians here:

"Each of these regions was fiercely anti-Slavery. And most ended up raising regiments that fought in the Union Army. But they were as anti-slave as they were anti-slavery, both of which they viewed as the linchpins of the aristocratic and inegalitarian society they loathed."

There is a difference between a racist and a bigot. So I apologize to the people of West Virginia for shouting at my TV that they were dumb, racist assholes last night. That was before I read these posts.

Josh Marshall adds:

"This is history. But it shapes the region. It's overwhelmingly white, economically underdeveloped (another legacy of the pre-civil war pattern) and arguably because of that underdevelopment has very low education rates and disproportionately old populations. For all these reasons, if you're familiar with the history, it's really no surprise that Barack Obama would have a very hard time running in this region."

It's too early to write off this area for Obama. You may not see him making many trips to this region during the fall campaign, but he will need high profile surrogates like Bill and Hillary Clinton to go into this area on the Democratic Party's behalf. The Clintons may be just the people to go there and make the case to these people that they shouldn't vote against their own best economic and social interests.
A Democratic President will have their back ... even if he is black.