Where’s the Outrage?

Charles Rangel, a New York Democrat, who has been a strong supporter of Senator Hillary Clinton, correctly said, “We pledged to support her to the end. Our problem is not being able to determine when the hell the end is.”

Could this be true? Could all of this be over? I’ll believe it when I see it.

From NYT:

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will endorse Senator Barack Obama on Saturday, bringing a close to her 17-month campaign for the White House, aides said. Her decision came after Democrats urged her on Wednesday to leave the race and allow the party to coalesce around Mr. Obama.

Howard Wolfson, one of Mrs. Clinton’s chief strategists, and other aides said she would express support for Mr. Obama and party unity at an event in Washington that day. One adviser said that Mrs. Clinton would concede defeat, congratulate Mr. Obama and proclaim him the party’s nominee, while pledging to do what was needed to assure his victory. (more…)

In another note, Barack Obama has tapped 3 people to be on his team to chose his Vice Presidential running mate. “Campaign officials said Caroline Kennedy, who is the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, as well as former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and longtime Washington insider Jim Johnson have already begun compiling information on potential running mates.”

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- Dude in a Brazilian jail was found to have 2 refrigerators, a plasma TV and $172,000… his jail cell is better equipped than my house
- Jed Babbon said that “Democrats don’t want to have a Black man and a woman on the same ticket for one reason. They are so racist and so sexist.”
- Bill O’Reilly didn’t know that nuclear weapons were include in WMD’s.

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- FBI interview with Scooter Libby was just made available to the House. It might be possible that Vice President Cheney told Scooter Libby to leak Valerie Plame’s name.
- The Judge residing over a Gitmo case has been removed.
- It appears that Prime Minister Nouri-al Maliki has opened talks with Iran. Isn’t this appeasement?

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David Brooks is an interesting right wing pundit. There are times when he actually makes sense. There are times when I agree with him. He isn’t like William Krystal who is wrong almost all of the time. So, you and I need to read his stuff carefully.

Yesterday, on MSNBC, David Brooks was channeling his right wing talking points from 2000. Remember when everyone was talking about what a great guy George W. Bush was. He was so great you just felt like you could sit down and have a beer with him? Remember those? Of course, the inference was that Al Gore wasn’t a great guy. Al Gore was too upper crust to have a beer or the beer would be one that you couldn’t pronounce. David Brooks pulled that one out of his back pocket. Barack Obama was an okay candidate but he was too stiff. He was too upper crust. (and here’s the twist) Brooks stated, “Obama’s problem is he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who could go into an Applebee’s salad bar, and people think he fits in naturally there.”

Look I like a $75 steak that melts in your mouth with a $100 bottle of a dry favorful Carbernet Sauvignon like Robert Mondavi Reserve. Now, that’s good eating. I also like going with my grandson to Applebees. The Double Crunch Shrimp is great. There is also a steak and parmesan combination that is fantastic. It is possible to be able to eat at a nice restaurant every once in a while and still enjoy a chain like Applebees.

Of course, David Brooks hasn’t been to Applebees. Their restaurants are made all about the same. There is a centrally located bar. Not a salad bar but a real bar. The tables are arranged in a large horseshoe shape around the bar. There is no salad bar. None. David Brooks has revealed more about himself than about Applebees or Barack Obama. Hasn’t he. C&L has this story. So does Media Matters.

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As predicted, Barack Obama had a flood of SuperDelegates to his side on Tuesday.

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From TPM Election Central:

Obama’s haul of super-delegates is turning out out to be very heavy today — and that’s before any actual votes are counted from tonight’s primaries, increasing the likelihood that he will clinch the nomination imminently soon.

• Former President Jimmy Carter, who had dropped hints for quite a while that he was for Obama, and officially confirmed the news with the Associated Press.

• South Carolina Congressman John Spratt.

• DNC member Ralph Dawson, from Hillary Clinton’s home state of New York.

• Massachusetts DNC member Deb Kozikowski.

• Massachusetts Congressman John Olver.

• DNC member Joyce Beatty of Ohio.

• DNC member Jennifer Dechant of Maine.

• DNC member Maria Chappelle-Nadal of Missouri.

• State party vice chair Carnelia Fondren of Mississippi.

• DNC member John Perez of California.

• Six Michigan super-dels, who each count as half a vote: Detroit Mayor and DNC member Kwame Kilpatrick, Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, and DNC members Debbie Dingell, Rick Wiener and Joyce Lalonde, and state party vice chair Tina Abbott. [Read more →]

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