Tuesday night Barack Obama extended his election winning streak over Hillary Clinton to 9 with a victory in the Wisconsin primary (and then 10 with a Hawaii caucus win), while John McCain put Mike Huckabee a little further away in his rear-view mirror with wins in Wisconsin and Washington. The tone and the timing of the three post-primary speeches told the story of the night …
Latest line on the destruction of CIA torture tapes: not a cover-up, just the result of deep institutional dysfunction.
So it’s all good.
This was just painful to watch. Chris Matthews skewered a hapless state senator from Texas during last night’s primary election coverage. I don’t think we’ll be seeing this guy trotted out as an Obama surrogate again any time soon:
I suspect this is a bit of a Rorschach test. Depending on your perspective, it’s proof that Obama is a lightweight, just goes to show what a gasbag Matthews is, or appeals to the same voyeuristic instinct that makes you slow down and gawk at a car accident.
Clinton surrogate and Machinists union President Tom Buffenbarger: “Give me a break! I’ve got news for all the latte-drinking, Prius- driving, Birkenstock-wearing, trust fund babies crowding in to hear him speak! This guy won’t last a round against the Republican attack machine. He’s a poet, not a fighter.”
From the pages of the Washington Post today you can see that the Obama ‘speech plagiarism’ meme has descended from the offensively silly to the militantly moronic. Here’s the latest one dug up or perhaps passed along as the case may be by Dana Milbank …
Still, Obama seemed to borrow anew on Tuesday at an outdoor rally in San Antonio — this time from former foe John Edwards. Criticizing pharmaceutical companies’ ads, Obama joked: “You know those ads where people are running around the fields, you know, they’re smiling, you don’t know what the drug is for?”
Compare that with this staple of Edwards’s 2004 stump speech: “I love the ads. Buy their medicine, take it, and the next day you and your spouse will be skipping through the fields.”
Here’s Mike Huckabee this morning on MSNBC, hammering the GOP:
So much for going gently into that good night.
Over at TPMCafe, a few resident Obamaniacs are discussing what to expect from the Clinton campaign in Ohio and Texas.
Reed Hundt says get ready for the Clinton attacks. Maybe, says Michael Berube, but can the Clinton gang still shoot straight?
If you’re Hillary, maybe Chris Matthews isn’t so bad after all.
Here she is this morning, seizing on the Obama surrogate trainwreck from last night:
A source tells TPM Election Central that the Obama campaign expects to exceed in February fund-raising its record $36 million January haul.