"No endorsement for you!"
-Headline of the day-
"Paper That Endorsed Hillary Calls On Her To Exit Race."
The Washington Blade pulls its endorsement of Clinton and asks that she quit the race. "Unfortunately, all the talk of experience and competence was belied by a campaign rife with incompetence. From Bill Clinton’s ruinous (and arguably racist) campaign swing through South Carolina, to an obvious failure to craft a strategy past Super Tuesday, her campaign staff made so many miscalculations that Hillary went from a coronation to a shocking defeat," writes editor Kevin Naff.
Dang, it takes a lot to actually get an endorsement pulled, but I guess Bill and Hill are really talented. (TPM, Washington Blade)
-It's National Obama Day-
Obama gains four superdelegates, including a Clinton jumper.
That's right, while Obama gains SDs, Clinton is losing them. North Carolina Democratic Party chairman Jerry Meek, California DNC member Inola Henry, North Carolina official Jeanette Council (who endorsed last night), and Virginia's state representative and DNC member Jennifer McClellan all went to Obama today, with McClellan leaving Team Hillary.
Turns out that beating Barack over the head with Rev. Wright for weeks on end backfired. Superdelegates are now seeing that Obama can weather a storm and are moving toward the candidate who's more and more obviously becoming the nominee. As I pointed out earlier today, George Stephanopoulos reported this morning that Team Obama is expecting more SDs to commit, "three to five superdelegates at a time, slowly, over the course of the next few days" and that the nomination is nigh.
Then again, it wouldn't be the first time we've heard something like this. But these four -- in one day -- lends a little credibility to the notion.
I'm so glad I'm not Hillary Clinton today and even gladder I'm not Bill. Unconfirmed reports tell us McCain has crapped his pants. (411mania.com)
-In non-Obama-related news...-
An adjunct professor at Cal-State was fired for not signing a loyalty oath that the state of California requires all employees to sign. The oath, which reads, "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter," tickled Wendy Gonaver's censorship receptors.
"As I was sorting through all this, I was listening to reports about extraordinary renditions and eliminating habeas corpus and whether torture was a fine thing for us to engage in,” she says. “I am opposed to war and have never seen one in my lifetime I could support." The report describes Gonaver as "a Quaker and a Buddhist and a pacifist" who "could not sign the oath without registering her views."
Of course, those views were unwelcome and Gonaver's anti-americanism got her canned on the spot. Hurray for freedom!
What was she going to teach? "As part of her American Studies course, she had planned to teach a section on McCarthyism," the report tells us.
They ought to put this story in the dictionary, as the definition of "irony." (The Progressive)
