Daily Kos: Midday open thread

Midday open thread

Simon Rosenberg:

In addition to sounding like she has been trying to rewrite the rules in the middle of the game, I think the strident rhetoric by the Clinton campaign on the sanctioning of FL and MI has done grave damage to their campaign. Most of the superdelegates, who at this point have the power to decide the outcome of the race, are from the other 48 states and 6 territories. They played by the rules. They are not interested in rewarding FL and MI for bad behavior and have resented the approach taken by the Clintons.

In addition, Senator Clinton's campaign agreed to the sanctioning of Florida and Michigan. If the voters of those states were disinfranchised then she was instrumental in bringing that about. The superdelegates in these other places understand all this better than anyone, and I think her wild approach to resolving the unfortunate problem of FL and MI has ended up being a major cause of her terrible showing with superdelegates these last 2 months. Like many of us who understood the system, and her role in creating it, the campaign's consistent whining and strident rhetoric has spoken very badly of her character. To many this episode has reinforced the notion that she and her husband were her willing to say and do anything to get elected, including what appears to be, let us say, lying and cheating.

This parody of Russert and Matthews is still funny. And I've read it like five times.

Did you know that Obama's acceptance speech at the DNC convention will come 45 years to the day of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech? Yup, the same MLK whose holiday McCain long opposed.

Crazy email of the day:

Why are you called "Daily Kos"? Is this somehow code for support for Mr. Obama? Perhaps you should disclose the fact that you are an arm of the Obama campaign.

Damn! Someone cracked the code.

I wonder if the moron media will quit talking about "momentum". Bowers:

I am finding myself resistant to the way this nomination campaign appears to be ending, mainly because there is no logic to it. All of the arguments that could be used by the punditry to declare the nomination campaign over could have been used really at any point since Wisconsin. For some reason, those arguments appear to be sticking tonight, whereas they weren't earlier. According to the logic that ends the campaign tonight, there was no reason to torture us for the past two months, except to damage Democrats for the sake of damaging Democrats. I guess I should have learned by now that that is reason enough.

McCain is so helpful to us:

John McCain sought to burnish his conservative credentials Tuesday with a broadside against "the common and systematic abuse of our federal courts by the people we entrust with judicial power" and a promise of "better judges" in the mold of Supreme Court Justices John G. Roberts and Samuel Alito.

That's code for "overturing abortion rights". At a time when the Democratic nominee has a potential problem with Democratic women voters, this is a nice reminder of what's at stake.