Barack Obama has come through stronger than ever. His victory speech was impressive:
...it's about your hopes, it's about your dreams, it's about your struggles, it's about your aspirations, it's about securing your portion of the American dream. ...we can choose this moment to come together, choose not to be afraid...
It was a combination of JFK's inauguration and George W. Bush's appeal in 2000 to bi-partisanship. Read more »
North Carolina & Indiana:Not game changer or game over. Certainly not really Clinton's claimed tie breaker. It's the end game now and Hillary has very few moves left. But it appears she'll battle on.Barack Obama's failure to win Indiana and bury her for good leaves a major question mark over his seemingly inevitable presidential campaign.
If anyone was still wavering between Clinton and Obama, she's started copying policies from Australia's own gibbering lunatics, Fundamentalists First:
Hillary Clinton and John McCain are both pushing a "gas-tax holiday" to give consumers an 18.4-cent-a-gallon price break. Clinton says the plan will take excess profits from oil companies. McCain says it will help families buy school supplies. Read more »
From yesterday's CrikeyUS08: The Terminatrix is here (and eyeing off Pennsylvania)
US correspondent Guy Rundle writes: Read more »
Barack Obama now appears likely to clinch the Democratic Party nomination. Hillary Clinton is hanging on for dear life but her hopes are probably futile. I can’t say I’m upset about this, despite my serious doubts about Obama’s ability or interest in seriously changing America’s foreign policy. Read more »
40 years after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Junior and Robert Kennedy the gun debate in the U.S. has hit rock bottom. After Barack Obama's comments about small town America clinging to guns, Clinton's campaign has sent a mailout to Indiana voters questioning his stance on guns: Where Does Barack Obama really stand on guns? Read more »
Rather bemused to find this story through Shakesville via Mark Steyn via Tim Blair via Currency Lad, but they’ve got Bob Ellis bang to rights regarding Read more »
Iranian blogger Omid Memarian, currently living in California, explains to his readers the apparent appeal of the current presidential race: Read more »
Michigan and Florida will hang over the Democrat 2008 primaries for a long time. An internal party dustup might have cost Hillary Clinton the nomination and almost certainly the presidency as a result. She has been playing catchup with a stacked deck (love those mixed metaphors). The job of the Super Delegates will be tough if it stays close. They are part of the process just like its many other imperfect aspects. Read more »
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