I'm sorry; I can't stop giggling.

Glenn Reynolds: "'Let's have a national dialogue about egghead condescension!' It's got to work better for Obama than the dialogue about race has . . . ."

Ann Althouse: "The original statement sounded like a typical law-school-liberal remark. I think it was quite sincere, and I'm rather sure he believed he was being admirably intellectual and raising politics to a new, higher level. Within a liberal law school environment, that statement would be heard as a thoughtful, compassionate insight. Some of your colleagues might think you were excessively, squishily tolerant of what they see as ignorant, bigoted people, but I don't think they'd push you to be more understanding of the alien culture you were observing."

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Helps Michelle Obama out:

“[I]n this ever-shifting, moving bar, Barack Obama will always be the underdog. No matter how much money he raises, no matter how many wins he pulls together, no matter how many delegates he accumulates; he is still the underdog. It’s the way it works.”

Honey, your husband is damn near a lock for the nomination for President of a very major political party. Get over yourself, already.

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. . . is taking his dollies and going home.

Et tu, Reason?

Well, I oughtn't to complain: this is part of the danger, with Maverick-Man. I was tempted to stay home as well.

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You have to call in the middle of the night to get her attention. (Both the latest Hillary ad and John McCain's response are at the link; video wars, indeed.)

Mark Steyn, writing in the OC Register:

Jeepers, will all business during this Clinton administration be transacted at 3 a.m.? Is it some union-negotiated flex-time deal?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sen. Clinton was the establishment candidate running in a party addicted to novelty (in candidates, that is; its policies remain mired in the 1960s). Hill calculated that, given the Dems' deference to identity politics, her gender would give her enough novelty to sail through. But Obama trumped that, and now it's eternally three in the morning, and the phone doesn't stop not ringing. She's like Frank Sinatra in Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's all-time great saloon song:

"It's quarter to three
There's no one in the place except you and me Â… "

Superdelegate Jon Corzine, governor of New Jersey and an early supporter of Hillary, now says that if she doesn't win the overall primary popular vote he'll switch to Obama. Sen. Pat Leahy of Vermont says she needs to throw in the towel for the good of the party.

"Well, that's how it goes
And Joe, I know you're getting anxious to close Â… "

They're locking up the joint, and no matter how many nickels she drops in the jukebox it won't play "Hail to the Chief."

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So, here you go:

there's also a kind of pandering in what Obama is doing. A few years ago, a pair of political scientists, John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, looked at evidence from surveys and focus groups and drew some fairly startling conclusions. Most Americans, they found, think there are easy, straightforward solutions out there that everyone would agree on if only biased special interests and self-serving politicians would get out of the way. They want to be governed by ENSIDs: empathetic non-self-interested decision makers.

This is pure fantasy, of course. But indulging it is Obama's stock-in-trade.

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"After all, it's the same offense Don Imus committed." (Not verbatim, but close; no. I do not intend to watch the video again to get it exact.)

Yeah, well. Imus didn't say that about white women. He said it about a group of predominantly black women.

Rhodes only said it about white women. See the difference? Also, you can say it about black women if you're a black man, you make it rhyme with something else (sort of), and you call it "rap music."

Via Stop the ACLU, via Hot Air.

Also, you can sever a woman head if she's white and you're black, and you're a football star.

What . . . the rules are too complicated for you?

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I got a Jimmy Stewart fetish, going, here. Do you blame me?

I think this John McCain ad will be extremely effective, and I do not like it.

I mean, we've established what Johnny Mac is, right? Proverbially, we're just setting the price right now, and throwin' in a few moves around the pole for the teachers' unions. (Yessir; it's Chippendale's night for the UTLA; I'll take my mom out for a thrill. She doesn't drink, so I always end up pulling double-duty on bar nights. This is, of course, oppressive to me.)

Thanks to Dr. Althouse, who's goin' all "Killing Us Softly" on us, again. I mean, I just don't see it: I got out of the English major racket because I didn't want to ascribe to malice what could be credited to carelessness.

Unless, of course, we're talkin' about fiction written by me. In which case, I meant every word, and I'm not sorry, and how's about a bit more on that advance? Could be an infamous roman a clef, Baby; you never know.

Proverbially, we're just setting the price right now, and I'm throwin' in a few moves around the pole for the publishing houses.

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1 Be nice to John. He's going to pick Romney and only serve one term, I'll bet. Jimmy Stewart would certainly like McCain. That is a great spot. The narrator is one of the legends in the voice-over business, Peter Thomas. About as cozy as they come. He must be a Republican. I only hear him on commercials and documentaries that tilt to the right.

Posted by: Concho at April 02, 2008 08:50 AM (ZET1q)

2 Certainly this is a fine pole dance for the teachers' union, if not a dance of a more private and efficacious nature. Happy ending, anyone? The price seems to have been pretty well determined at this point; it's McCain's soul. The preponderance of smoke in the first half of the ad is a very odd choice, I think. If John McCain is so proud of having learned to turn in wrongdoers so that they can be punished and then redeemed, why is he cosying up to George Bush and Karl Rove?

Posted by: Rin at April 02, 2008 10:30 AM (bSHZa)

3 Tin Tin? Not very often do we have such famous visitors to chat with. Yes, John is going out on long midnight cruises with W and Karl Rove. They sometimes stop by Haliburton and enjoy a nightcap or two, as well. Before visiting Blackwater HQ and watching some secret videos, while they pump cigar smoke into the atmosphere without a scintilla of concern over the environment or anthropogenic global warming. They sometimes hang with Nancy Pelosi, too, and bet on her blink rate as she gives them the finger and generally shows her digust for their kind- ripping away her clothing and taunting them with her naked body parts while mocking them for being aroused at the sights--as her sexual arousal builds to sweet, sweet, release. My question is "Where are the Leftist champions of social justice and the rule of law--like Eliot Spitzer--when we truly need them!

Posted by: Darrell at April 02, 2008 12:48 PM (XsPVA)

4 Keep it civil, boys and girls D, Rin is a dear friend in real life. I'm trying to raise her consciousness re: market realities and the WoT, but progress is, of course, slow.

Posted by: Attila Girl at April 02, 2008 01:06 PM (Hgnbj)

5 Sorry! I guess I was flirting.

Posted by: Darrell at April 02, 2008 01:59 PM (XsPVA)

6 Well, if that weren't allowed, I wouldn't be able to blog, comment, send email, or interact with anyone in any way whatsoever.

Posted by: Attila Girl at April 02, 2008 07:40 PM (Hgnbj)

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