Obama Quits Church

Barack Obama has announced that after 20 years as a member of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, he is resigning his membership in the wake of the latest controversial statements by the Rev. Michael Pfleger, who mocked Hillary Clinton as a guest speaker at Obama's church. If Obama believes that this will put the matter behind him and that we have heard the last of this, he is sorely mistaken. The Republicans will most assuredly make Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Pfleger a centerpiece of the campaign in the general election.

Another Clinton Defeat

Today the Democratic National Committee's rules panel voted to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida with a half vote each. Although this is yet another blow to Hillary Clinton's candidacy, it will not in all likelihood be sufficient enough inducement for her to bow out of the campaign.

Stone Karma

Actress Sharon Stone's comment that the devastating earthquake in China that killed thousands of people was karma for China's treatment of Tibet was an unbelievably stupid statement, even for an actress not exactly known for political insight or intellectual ability. According to Stone, "I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you're not nice that the bad things happen to you?"

Getting Late

Damn, I am sick and tired of the Clintons. I mean there isn't a day that goes by without Hillary or Bill saying something stupid and self-serving in justifying why she remains in the race, despite being, for all intents and purposes, mathematically eliminated. Hillary's latest ploy is to invoke the name of the Almighty: "There isn't anything we cannot do together if we seek God's blessing and if we stay committed and are not deterred by the setbacks that often fall in every life." And then there's Bill who claimed that the firestorm of reaction triggered by Hillary's Robert Kennedy assassination gaffe raised his blood pressure, not exactly a good thing for someone having undergone heart surgery: "That really made my blood boil." The sooner Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee, and the Democratic Superdelegates step in and tell the Clintons to end Hilary's candidacy, the better off the Democratic Party will be and the focus can finally turn to Sen. John McCain and the general election in November.

Hillary Clinton's Gaffe

For Hillary Clinton apparently nothing is out of bounds to justify continuing her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination despite the fact that mathematically it is practically impossible for her to overtake Barack Obama. Her latest gaffe, for which she has subsequently apologized, is in invoking the name of Robert Kennedy, who forty years ago campaigned into June when he was gunned down by an assassin's bullet.

This Woman Candidate in Particular

Hillary Clinton supporters are now whining that her failed candidacy can be attributable to rampant misogyny and sexism in the media and in the Obama campaign. Not surprising the feverishly incoherent Geraldine Ferraro is easily the most prominent spokeswoman of this particular point of view. In a recent FOX News interview, Ferraro's sundry complaints about how her candidate has been grievously wronged was on display for all to see. Hold up a minute. Hillary's failed efforts to secure the Democratic presidential nomination has far less to do with an anti-woman bias than it does a terribly flawed campaign and the baggage generated from the Clinton years in the White House. To be sure, there are some folks out there who will never support a woman but this campaign is not about women candidates in general but specifically about this woman candidate in particular.

Hillary's Peculiar Math

Last night Sen. Hillary Clinton told a crowd of Louisville supporters: "This is one of the closest races for a party's nomination in history. We're winning the popular vote, and I'm more determined than ever to see that every vote is cast and every ballot counted." What she conveniently fails to mention is that she's leading in the popular if the caucuses (which Obama dominated) are excluded and the votes in the outlaw primaries of Michigan and Florida are counted.