ElectionSnark (24 May)
Hillary Clinton accomplishes anatomical improbability by nailing shut her own political coffin. Seeking to counter-attack (there is only one page in the Clinton campaign playbook), her campaign demands she apologize to herself. Memeorandum sets new record size for single category.
Newsweek reports poll indicating that some white voters continue to have a problem with Obama. But racism has nothing to do with it. Nothing. Do you hear me? Nothing at all. Except, well, it totally does.
Jesse Ventura body-slams Pat Buchanan. Not literally, but if wishing made it so…
Some GOP strategists believe McCain could not only win, but (gasp!) exceed Bush’s margin of victory. Um, the alternative to exceeding Bush’s margin of victory is called “losing”.
Pictures are worth a thousand words at the Libertarian Party convention.
Obama campaign beginning to list potential VP candidates. Sorry, guys, but no one named “Vilsack” will ever be elected to national office.
McCain repudiates bigoted reverend’s endorsement. Hagee and Wright form a “dissed by our candidates” club and order T-shirts.
Obama and Clinton skip the pre-meeting planning meeting and the tentative outreach meeting and go straight to the preliminary talks.
Cynthia McCain is loaded and hot. John McCain is, well, very not.
Lefty pundits form Maoist self-criticism cadres over Lieberman’s apostasy. Long too large to be contained within a single identity, Glenn Greenwald’s ego now reported to have grown to black hole proportions, drawing in surrounding egos and destroying them in a blaze of subatomic pejoratives.
