With A Passion

When I quoted DailyKos as saying, “Update: All the talk on MSNBC is about who will break it to the Clintons that it’s over,” I didn’t think someone would actually literally be needed to break the news. Ostrich is as ostrich does, I guess.

The last channel the TV was on was MSNBC so I turned it on before I went to work this morning to learn from Andrea Mitchell that supposedly it was MSBNC, and more likely Chris Matthews’, on air obituary for the Hillary campaign last night that prompted the Clinton camp to schedule an event tonight.

The more interesting thing that Chris Matthews said last night was when he, or maybe it was Russert, said that the night that the Democrat accepts the nomination in Denver, that night is the 40th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream Speech.”

The narrative in the daily papers this morning was simply put, “HIL NEEDS A MIRACLE.”

And via Jay Smooth at Ill Doctrine, who I actually met a few weeks ago in the entrance of a Virgin Megastore, a clip I’m calling, “Your days are just about over.”

Indiana Updates

1:09 AM

MSNBC’s A-Team seems to have signed off. I tried watching CNN, and Wolf Blitzer almost made me vomit. So the B-team, The After Hours MSNBC Team clocks in, led by Dan Abrams, and now, Chuck Todd’s up:

99 % reporting in Indiana:

Clinton 51 % 32 delegates
Obama 49 % 29 delegates

22,109 vote difference

And a new metric has been announced: Hillary Clinton is the “Apparent Winner.”

Rachel Maddow’s bringing that great term of hers, Hillary’s “Post Rational Universe,” up. I have work tomorrow, and would be living in such a universe if I felt losing sleep over the last 1% would make a difference. Good night.

12:52 AM

kos linked to this video, from the underknown comedy Bowfinger, as it’s a pretty funny blip about how the Dems will get back together.

12:42 AM

Nora O’Donnell at MSNBC is listing polling #’s. Still, Clinton voters more apt to vote McCain than Obama voters, if their candidate is not the nominee. Buchanan – somehow – is a voice of reason, says there’s 4 months, an eternity, to heal the divide. Remember, this is stupid Pat Buchanan who’s said that Black Folks Should Love America, No Country Has Treated Them Better.

12:35 AM

95 percent reporting

Clinton 51 % 32 delegates
Obama 49 % 29 delegates

16,609 vote difference

Olbermann reports that HRC post campaign election e-mail doesn’t even ask for cash.

12:25 AM

“If you actually believe in a Post Rational Universe where you can be the candidate.”
- Rachel Maddow on Hillary staying in the election.

12:10 AM

Tim Russert is calling the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States of America for Barack Obama. I’m almost unable to believe it’s true. He’s also saying that HillRod has also cancelled her morning tv show appearances.

Markos, at DailyKos, “The media narrative is clear: It’s over.” & “Update: All the talk on MSNBC is about who will break it to the Clintons that it’s over.”

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John Kerry would have made a “Why the long face?” joke work. (Photo Credit to Deadspin)

You could connect Hillary’s support for the sole female horse (filly to you newbies) Eight Belles, which lost to Big Brown, and then was euthanized on the track as a great sports/politics metaphor – which I’ve been doing in my free time whilst conversing with those few who know both subjects – but at this point bringing horse racing into politics is downright stupid. It’s lower-minded than bringing Rev. Wright into this. So, unlike PETA, I’m not going to bash Hillary for her connection to the horse or to racing in general.

I’m going to stay quiet today. I’m just so tired at this point of the campaign and neither side is really blundering in ways that aren’t being covered, except that whole “God bless us rich people,” thing didn’t get a lick of coverage compared to the bitter quote.

I will say though, that if this punch sticks, I’ll be laughing my ass off. I’m seeing H&K 2 with my dad for his birthday tonight, so I won’t be getting home until well after the numbers have come in, thereby saving myself from that period of time where I’d normally be hearing Olbermann and Matthews saying, “Too close to call.”

Either way, this campaign probably won’t be ending this week, and that’s not good for anybody.

CORRECTION: it’s good for McCain, but he’s sold his soul, so there’s nothing inhabiting that rusty old corpse he calls a body.

Hillary on Bill O. America, this, this, THIS!, is what an offensive elitist sounds like. I’m going to go throw up, now.