Today’s Barack Obama Digest
There’s so much news out there, too much to make multiple posts out of tonight, so I decided to condense them all into one.
Clinton supporters: McCain’s military experience not the right kind of military experience
James Joyner calls the remarks “a spectacularly dumb line of attack.” I concur. Click the link to read the arguments supporters like General Wesley Clark and feminista Gloria Steinem are making about McCain’s military experience, and let me know your thoughts.
Will Hillary drop out after Tuesday’s primaries?
The International Herald Tribune reports:
Just words? Part III: Obama campaign’s NAFTA wink wink nudge nudge lies and half-truths continue to pile up
I have been closely following the developing story Canada’s CTV first reported on Wednesday in which they alleged that a high-ranking official at the Canadian embassy told them that a “senior” member of the Obama campaign contacted Canadian ambassador Michael Wilson and told him not to take BO’s harsh anti-NAFTA rhetoric too seriously, that it was merely “campaign rhetoric” and that Canada shouldn’t worry. What we’ve learned since that story is that it wasn’t the Canadian embassy that was called, but instead it was a visit that was paid to the Canadian Consulate General’s office in Chicago by Obama’s senior economic advisor Austan Goolsbee.
NYT asks: Is there favoritism for Obama over Clinton in the MSM? And then shows favoritism for Obama
Where oh where do I start with this morning’s NYT piece which questions whether or not the media is showing favoritism for Obama over Clinton? Oh yes – the beginning: