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I will never get tired of Terry McAuliffe.
via TPM.
I will never get tired of Terry McAuliffe.
via TPM.
A quick history lesson: The first electronic computer, ENIAC, was built in 1946 when John McCain was ten years old. The first mainframes came in the 1950s when McCain was in his twenties and by the 1970s, when the first microcomputers came on the market, he was attending the National War College. In 1981 IBM released the first PC and John McCain was getting ready to run for Congress. In 2000, the first time John McCain ran for president, we’d already seen the rise of Microsoft, eBay, Amazon, Napster and the tech boom.
It’s now 2008, John McCain is running for president again, and he freely admits that he does not know how to use computers. While he may occasionally do “a Google” it’s his wife who apparently has to actually do the clicking and typing for him.
Perhaps I’m being ageist, or simply ignoring as a computer capable person myself how many people still struggle with computers. But in the 21st century, isn’t it perhaps important for the leader of the free world to know how to use a computer?
John McCain is using his first general election campaign ad to proclaim “I hate war.” This is a curious strategy. McCain will essentially be asking voters to make a leap of faith in believing that he hates war but still wants to continue fighting the current one in Iraq.
Here’s the script:
JOHN MCCAIN: Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.
When I was five years old, my father left for war.
My grandfather came home from war and died the next day.
I was shot down over Vietnam and spent five years as a POW. Some of the friends I served with never came home.I hate war.
And I know how terrible its costs are.
I’m running for President to keep the country I love safe.
I’m John McCain and I approve this message.
Here comes the general election.
Just a quick correction regarding Peter’s appearance on MSNBC yesterday afternoon. At 3:12 in the clip, the host quotes a “liberal website” saying “Feeling for Scott McLellan [sic]. Nice getting savaged for saying what everyone knows to be true anyway.”
The so-called liberal website is actually a twitter post from Mike Turk, the Bush-Cheney 2004 eCampaign Director. Damn that liberal media!
As we’ve seen over the past two years, primaries can be highly divisive. However, through it all, Terry McAuliffe has been a pleasure to watch - frustrating at times, but always entertaining. Whatever the Clinton’s are paying him (I suspect nothing), it’s definitely not enough! Nice work TPM!
It is certainly a minor point, but the media continues to be tremendously lazy with the actual results of yesterday’s Pennsylvania primary. As of 11 am the day after the race, with 99.44% reporting (still missing 52 districts out of 9,264) Clinton is on top of Obama by 9.2%, not the 10% that is widely reported. Yes, this is a small number, but there is a tremendous psychological difference between a double-digit and single-digit win.
Where we stand today (according to the AP Delegate Tracker):
Obama: 1,481 pledged + 233 super = 1,714 delegates
Clinton: 1,331 pledged + 258 super = 1,589 delegates
I’m not sure if this includes this morning’s superdelegate endorsement of Obama by Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry. As Chuck Todd noted on NBC last night, Clinton now needs to win 70% of the delegates on May 6 in NC and IN and 80% after that date if she can’t meet that number.
UPDATE: Video of Chuck Todd after the jump.
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I’ve seen this Bill Clinton quote floating around for a while, but the TPM guys finally have the video up.
DoubleSpeak encourages all Pennsylvanians to head out and vote tomorrow and heed our wise former president’s words.
This is well done and definitely in the spirit of the great city of Philadelphia.
I think after this week’s events, we all need to blow off a little steam.
Here is some news you can use from everyone’s favorite news source…The Onion.