A sweet little video parody from Snide Video entitled “Obama on the Run” sung to the tune of “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better” from Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun. Note the ending and who pulls the plug. That’s what I’d like to see.
According to the Associated Press whatever John Edwards is thinking of doing in respect to an endorsement, he is keeping it to himself. Reports are that he will not endorse either candidate before the Democratic Convention this coming August in Denver. As an Edwards supporter, I would like to think that perhaps the prospects of a deadlocked convention might provide an opening for Edwards to emerge as a compromise candidate. But that’s wishful thinking on my part, the reality is that either Senator Clinton or the very junior Senator from Illinois will be the nominee. This being the case, I wish he would endorse Senator Clinton. She’s a fighter just like John and Elizabeth.
This was originally written as a comment on TalkLeft, the erudite blog by Jeralyn Merritt on the politics of crime and today perhaps the most balanced perspective on the Democratic race on the Internet. I wrote it on April 13th in the wake of the very junior Senator from Illinois’ comments in my hometown of San Francisco. I still think it apt and so I am re-publishing them here with some new colour befitting events since the story broke.
The comments by Obama on Pennsylvania and on life in small town America generally. offend across the political spectrum. But in Obama land, the truth hurts and we should all listen to our would be messiah for his aim is nothing less than to instruct us all on how to live proper lives. While the Obama campaign is defending the comments predicated on the assumption that people are bitter (angry is more like it), they miss the reality that the affront is not the word “bitter” but rather the word “cling” and the items to which these bitter Americans are so jealously clinging to in this land without hope.