Saturday reading: Gun-clinger

April 12th, 2008 · No Comments

By: Avi Zenilman

JMart offers five reasons the story won’t go away.

Crowley finds a silver lining: there’s no video of Obama’s "cling" comments.

Cillizza rounds up consultants’ response: Carter Eskew thinks Obama should respond by pulling out another big speech, while another Dem pollster says its much ado about nothing.

Yglesias says Obama’s rapid response shows the right kind of political instincts.

The NRCC uses the comments to go after Dem Congressmen; in one mailing, they basically urge Pennsylvania Rep. Jason Altmire vote to cast his superdelegate vote for Hillary Clinton.

John Morgan argues that Obama should use "exasperated" instead of "bitter".

Captain Ed insists on the distinction between the two bits of Obama’s remarks.

Michelle Malkin crystallizes the new conservative line on Obama.

Alan Abramowitz and Ruy Texeira — with impeccable timing — release a Brookings paper showing the collapse of the American working class nationwide.

Garry Wills lines up Obama’s race speech and Lincoln’s 1860 Cooper Union speech side-by-side.

Catalist client Bill Burton says he hopes Harold Ickes data is better than his delegate count.

Howard Fineman looks at the plight of Vernon Jordan.

Chris Rabb argues Obama should play sports he knows how to play, and show off his dunking skills for America.

And Michael Calderone gets to the bottom of the varying superdelegate counts, and finds that there is no bottom.


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