Ezra Klein has two must read posts today, here and here. Hillary Clinton is a brilliant woman, a good Senator, and she would probably be a pretty good president. However, some of the tactics she's rumored to be planning to garner the nomination, as Klein lays out in his posts, would literally tear the party apart. If Clinton were to steal the nomination, it would just be more fodder for the Republicans to hurl at her come November. I'm not as of yet too concerned about this. Despite what the media says, Clinton is still in this race. In fact, Clinton still has a reasonable shot at winning the race. That being said, as Josh Green details in his fantastic report over at the Atlantic, the Clinton campaign is obviously in disarray. My thinking is that as long as Clinton doesn't win Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, Obama pretty much has this thing locked up (that is, minus any shady dealings by the Clinton campaign). I'm hoping that Howard Dean, Clinton, and Obama can come to some kind of agreement. This election brings with it the best oppurtunity for Democrats to make huge gains that we're going to get for a long, long time. One can only hope that individual ambition does not derail this oppurtunity for the collective good.
P.S. Maureen Dowd has gasp! a very good and fair column on Hillary Clinton. I miss the old Maureen, but she's had a few good columns in a role now, I hope this means that she's back!
It was a great night for Barack Obama. Check out this fantastic post, from another one of my favorite writers (and his name is also Jonathan) Jon Cohn. It is very exciting to see Obama turn the heat on St. McCain. I do believe, contrary to Hillary Clinton's rhetoric, that Obama can face off against holy John and win. Obama is dead right on the war, St. McCain is dead wrong. Obama has in-depth knowledge of economic issues, by his own admission, crazy old man McCain has none. It's also exciting to see that Obama is talking about working Americans, as a supporter of the labor movement, I find that very encouraging.
I didn't see the victory speeches until this morning but I was struck by the difference between them. Obama had lots of energy and was surrounded by all types of people (whites, Latinos, African-Americans, old, young) whereas St. John McCain of Arizona was surrounded by old white people while he railed on about "liberal elites that hate America." On a side note, John McCain, is really, really, old looking!
