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Putting a lie to the tie Since Friday when Sen. Patrick Leahy blurted out his view that Hillary should quit the race, you hear pundits and candidates picking apart the idea. They say the same things over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. I've been surprised no one has suggested the notion that it's a smart move for Obama supporters to start floating this idea, even if it's a little early, since it points up the fact that Hillary backers can't really turn the tables and call for Obama to back out. They could try but even they would realize it would sound absurd. Without really saying it, calling for her to quit puts a lie to the storyline that this thing is a dead heat. I get weary The paucity of new ideas is part of the reason I'm getting tired of watching the political news on TV, and I don't watch without pause as I did a few weeks ago. I'm checking the RCP poll averages and RCP's nice selection of political stories only once a day. Still a junkie, but pulling back. I'll probably watch the Sunday morning shows, catch up with podcasts on the overlapping shows, and listen to Dave's Sunday Gang podcast if he does one this week. (Feed for the podcast is the same as Dave's blog.) Doodling to please myself Working on a new Flash commentary, maybe with Sprae Ann, who I think has become a liberal. I'm so lame with Flash, but I really enjoy learning more about it by indulging myself with these. This one, if I finish it, would feature Cheney, Bush and McCain. I also thought about making one using a reading of a Frederick Douglass sermon after reading about it in yesterday's Tribune. Can't find the reference online. The web version of the story is quite different from the print copy I read (at the car wash, don't buy it anymore.) Later: Ah. Here's what I read in the Trib, on the WGN site. The reference to YouTube was what made me think of Flashizing the Douglass. ... Last week, Best assigned his students a 1852 speech by Frederick Douglass on the meaning of July 4 for African-Americans. |
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