I have been forgetting one of the cardinal rules of American politics, set forth in the post-title above. Might Barack Obama somehow pull off the Democratic nomination, just because more people vote for him in primaries and he has more delegates? Sure… it’s possible. But he is running against Hillary Clinton, current matriarch of what Bruce the Veep politely calls the “Hillbilly MacBeths”. They play to win. Indeed, that is their appeal– really their only appeal. Now that they have finally had a successful play of the race card in TX and OH (and they hope it will also work...

George W. Bush seems satisfied that his party’s standard-bearer won’t be changing courses or anything… as he lauded John McCain for his likelihood in following the super-successful Bush foreign policy of as many unwarranted, irrational and insanely counter-productive wars as we can borrow money to pay for (complete with flushing our moral standing down the toilet). And so, with a President hovering at 19% approval ratings to whom the once-sainted John McCain (who will be 72 come election time) must now wed himself in the interest of holding together the “base” (without whom he has no chance at all, as...

In honor of his buying me Corbin Bleu’s record album (which I and my friend are using in a jump-rope related act in our school talent show), Daddy thought I should post a picture of Corbin Bleu. So here goes. I really didn’t want to post Corbin’s picture, but it’s Daddy’s blog, so I kind of have to do what he wants… he also says to check out his post at AmStreet, “The Big Brotherhood of Man“. What I really wanted to do this week was to put up a picture of Phineas and Ferb, not that Daddy even lets...

While Senator Clinton fires wild shots that hit nothing (though the recoil seems to keep knocking her ever further off her game) about Senator Obama’s supposed “plagiarism” by using lines from Mass. Governor Deval Patrick it appears that the nation’s new “war on plagiarism” has claimed its first victim, ironically, unrelated to the Obama team at all, but none other than White House (and former Gary Bauer) aide Tim Goeglein, who seems to have copied huge swathes of his columns published in his (and Frank Burns’) hometown of Ft. Wayne, IN. Ah, the bitter irony of it all. Meanwhile, it...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Apparently, the Clinton camp has sensed that it’s third and long (and has been… for some time!) And, as time keeps ticking off the clock, the play is… go for the bomb! Anyway, while this Buzzflash piece observes that today’s bomb is the Clinton camp releasing pictures of Obama in traditional Somali attire during his visit to Kenya in 2006… to the Drudge Report of all places… and one wonders. Thus far, any and all attacks of this nature have only reminded us why so many of us can’t stand the (ruthless, self-serving) Clintons…...

This week, I decided to be all “convtroversial”, and pick a teeny-bopper icon that has… problems. So I give you Jamie Lynn Spiers, who I read recently was nice enough to visit her big sister Britney in the mental home… what a nice sister! Meanwhile, Daddy says that Ralph Nader (who?) is running for President, so check out “He’s Baaaaack!” over at American Street. Daddy says at 74, Ralph is even older than McCain. That seems really old to me… that’s as old as some of my grandparents! Well, it’s back to school this week… so, what else can I...

I was surprised to see that WaPo put up this op ed from not just one, but both of the only two Guantanamo detainee attorneys whose interviews were so extensive that they took two days, Brent Mickum, whose interview is posted here, and Joseph Margulies, whose interview has not been published. Brent and Joe happened to be among the earliest attorneys ever to visit detainees at Guantanamo, and have been at the forefront of the Guantanamo litigation since its earliest days. The subject of the WaPo op-ed concerns their representation of Abu Zubaydah, one of the “high value” detainees at...

Bruce the Veep has come up with a three-fer, on the subject of Sen. McCain and his… troubles. First, we learn that in the ultimate “hoist on your own petard” situation, McCain may be locked into too-low federal funding limits (limits he himself opposed raising!) and may open himself to charges of at best hypocrisy (McCain-Feingold was after all, his idea!) and at worst criminality (up to five years in jail and stiff fines!) if he tries to opt out, though if he is stuck with the federal spending limits… he can’t spend money til’ August! Part of the problem...

Candace is asking her friends to make a call to action, specifically, as enumerated on her blog here, she’s asking for letters of support for her client, Al-Ghizzawi, now resident of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who is evidently dying of medical neglect at the hands of our government, despite our government’s inability to even say exactly why it is we are holding him in the first place. Candace has brought an emergency motion before U.S. District Court Judge John Bates with respect to medical treatment, and at this point… is looking for your help. (As usual, since Candace often lets me...

The Unseen Editor sends along this Grey Lady hit-piece on Republican Presidential nominee (if we can’t say it now… then when?) Sen. John McCain, weaving in vague and unproven allegations of improprieties (including not so vague innuendo of a possible romantic relationship between the now 71 year old Sen. McCain and 40 year old telecom lobbyist Vicki Iseman). Supposedly, as he did with the Keating Five scandal in the 80’s, it seems McCain used his clout to try to lobby regulators for the benefit of some of Ms. Iseman’s clients. One can draw their own conclusions as to what this...