Alright, so now the feds have proof that Roger Clemens lied under oath and procured steroids.

This whole steroids thing with baseball has been a calamity. Some blame the players and some blame the league for lax enforcement and implicit encouragement. I reject that and place the blame squarely on the moronic self-deceiving fans of MLB who were distracted by pretty home run chases while denying the blatant obviousness of what was happening to the sport.  

Drudge and CNN are making a big deal about vulgar comments Jesse Jackson apparently just made about Obama. Apparently Jackson was not aware the comments were being broadcast. There are several reports about it, but I can't find anything with the actual quotes from Jackson.

After years of studying the WWII era including wide-ranging scholarship on the rise of Nazism, I remain at a loss in understanding the unfathomable evil of the nazis. There appears to be absolutely no rational basis in all that is human for what the nazis did.  

Yeah yeah, call me a jerk, but I have to admit it is true. Supporting Obama in the primary against Hillary was some of the most fun I've ever enjoyed with politics. I'm a democrat who believes the DLC Clintons and their minions were/are a disgrace to the party. So you can understand how I'd feel being part of the process that humbled the Clintons while elevating a man of Obama's character and grace. There was something cathartic about it.

One of the most troubling things about the Clintons has always been their associates and hangers-on, sleazeballs and hucksters like Terry McCaullife, Lanny Davis, Paul Begala, James Carville, Mark Penn, Sideny Blumenthal . . . the parade of horribles is unending.

Is it any surprise then that never say die Clinton defender, Lanny Davis, is now employed by Fox News? Here is the article.

So this is the classy way HRC will bow out, essentially demanding that Obama buy her concession. Check out this article currently being linked by Drudge. Ultimately, she just wants the Clinton family millions back in her pockets.

With today's renewed race-baiting from the HRC campaign, I urge consideration of this George Will article linked on realclearpolitics.com.

Here, are some particularly keen passages:

Hillary Clinton, 60, Illinois native and Arkansas lawyer, became, retroactively, a lifelong Yankee fan at age 52 when, shopping for a U.S. Senate seat, she adopted New York state as home sweet home. She may think, or at least would argue, that when she was 12 her Yankees really won the 1960 World Series, by standards of "fairness," because they trounced the Pirates in runs scored, 55-27, over seven games, so there.

I think John King deserves a shoutout.

First, he's often the only sane guy in the CNN newsroom. When everyone else is waffling around with wild hyperbole that shifts with every change in momentum among the candidates, King is a rock. He always bases his analysis purrely on the raw data, refusing Wolf Blitzer's constant invitations to deviate into baseless speculatation. As a result of this emphasis on the data, there is never even a hint of bias in his reporting.

The following quote is published in Newsweek and posted here.

"If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two."

-- James Carville, quoted by Newsweek, on how "Hillary is the tougher of the two, the candidate you want on your side in a knife fight."

Get a load of this quote from HRC regarding the gas tax issue:

Clinton added, "You know, Sen. Obama says we shouldn't do it and it's gimmick. And Sen. McCain says we should do it but shouldn't pay for it. I sometimes feel like the Goldilocks of this campaign. Not too much, not too little, just right. And I think we should have a gas tax holiday and pay for it."

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Say what you will about Zogby, but this is some intriguing polling. He tested both Obama and HRC in a 4-way national race that also includes Bob Barr and Ralph Nader.

One of the most annoying things about the Hillary Campaign is the way they constantly make arguments that insult people's intelligence.  Here is the latest from First Read:

From NBC's John Boxley
EN ROUTE TO INDIANA -- The new spin we are hearing from the Clinton campaign today is that more people have now cast votes for Clinton than Obama, when you include MI and FL AND exclude the caucuses which Obama has dominated. (See earlier post on the popular vote logic.)

This is now being posted over at Townhall.com. Some of the more interesting findings are as follows:

This is to pass on information received from several friends regarding a boycott of ABC being arranged for this Sunday, April 20, 2008. Under the terms of the boycott, in a show of solidarity against the atrocious debate which ABC continues to defend, we call on everyone to abstain from viewing any ABC programming during that 24 hour interval.

Poor Evan Bayh. He agreed to forego a presidential run after being persuaded by fellow DLC member HRC of her inevitability and her assurance that he'd get serious veep consideration. Just another self-interest based political calculation shattered by the Obama insurgence. So what's Bayh to do? Well there's nothing left to do really except go down with the ship. Here that means joining HRC's slams of Kerry and Gore while vainly attempting to foment a superdelegate rebellion.

This effort by HRC to capitalize on Obama's statements regarding the plight of the jobless makes me sick. Here's the key language:

"I saw in the media it's being reported that my opponent said that the people of Pennsylvania who faced hard times are bitter. Well, that's not my experience.
"As I travel around Pennsylvania, I meet people who are resilient, who are optimistic, who are positive, who are rolling up their sleeves. They are working hard everyday for a better future, for themselves and their children.

"Pennsylvanians don't need a president who looks down on them, they need a president who stands up for them, who fights for them, who works hard for your futures, your jobs, your families."

In interesting comments published on Ben Smith's blog here, Hillary was asked about concerns that the 2008 democratic convention could be as chaotic and destructive as the 1968 convention. In bungled comments, she first reminds us that she was in fact still a Republican in 1968, then goes on to counter such concerns by saying that despair over the Vietnam War was greater than over the Iraq War today.

Nationally, democrats are consolidating behind Obama. Rasmussen is now showing Obama with an 11 point lead in their daily tracking poll here. That's his biggest lead thus far in the primary cycle.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows—for the third time in four days--Barack Obama with a double digit lead in the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. Obama now attracts 51% of the vote while Hillary Clinton earns 40%. That’s the lowest total ever recorded for Clinton since the contest became a two-person race.