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The Rundown After The Runoff


Always gracious in victory, Sen. Hillary Clinton has hinted that she might be willing to offer phenom Sen. Barack Obama the coveted second spot on her ticket. "That may be where this is headed,” Clinton said on CBS’s “The Early Show after winning primaries in Rhode Island, Ohio and Texas, “but of course we have to decide who is on the top of ticket. I think the people of Ohio very clearly said that it should be me." It was John “Cactus Jack” Garner, Franklin Roosevelt’s VP, who once said of the office that it “wasn’t worth a warm bucket of spit.” Clinton’s primary and caucus haul after Second Super Tuesday is a piddling 13; Obama has won 28, giving him an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates. These numbers have led some number crunchers to determine that it would be more or less impossible for Clinton to win a sufficient number of delegates to cinch the nomination before the Democrat nominating convention. And has anyone seen Bill lately? It had been widely speculated before Second Super Tuesday that Bill’s efforts on his wife’ Hillary’s behalf were torpedoing her foundering campaign.
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Ed said…
Think Chris Dodd is busy watching over his shoulder, awaiting the inevitable moment of his paying for disloyalty, or is he still so buoyed by a sense of changitude and hopiness that he hasn't smelled another change in the wind?

(The capcha for this entry was roidsfry, which seemed strangely appropriate for this question.)
3:47 PM
Don Pesci said…
Ed,

Have you been reading Ulysses by JJ again?
9:00 PM
Ed said…
No, but I blame my stroke when I get odd looks.
9:40 PM
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