On April 27, 2008, at an NAACP Dinner, Reverend Jeremiah Wright offered his first public speech since the controversy surrounding his sermons became the subject of national attention. As conservative commentators watched for signs of new controversy, perhaps taking momentary pleasure as Wright broached the uncontroversial (and eighteenth century) subject of differences in African and European brain physiology, it quickly became clear that Wright wanted to tackle the subject of race relations by joking about funny accents, singing and dancing, and then lamely pleading that we should all just get along.

In this series of entries, I will share my innermost thoughts about the Democratic primary race. Since the beginning of this primary, I have reacted with cynicism to many developments, and the way they have been discussed in the press. I was motivated to begin a “reality check” series by a recent comment on this blog.
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McCain is hilariously forgetting things he said a few days ago, like that America should tear down the 9th ward. I want to say this kind of selective memory is suspicious, but man is he old.

Have a listen to some of the phone calls Hillary Clinton’s campain is making these days. If you’re response is “well that’s politics,” please remember, it’s only politics as long as we continue to allow it.

Matt honors his exhaustion with this campaign’s fixation on exhaustingly moronic topics, by bringing us a top ten list of stories that need to be put to rest.

On April 22, 2008, Hillary Clinton scored a “double-digit” 9.3% win over Barack Obama in Pennsylvania. On the eve of victory, she delivered a powerful address that will go down in history as the speech she happened to give that night. As always, for the prose you hate, we annotate.

General David Petraeus picked to head up CENTCOM. In other news, we’re all doomed. Doomed.

According to the Clintonistas, because Obama cannot shut Clinton out of remaining wins entirely, it proves that Clinton is the better candidate, never mind that she has not been able to “close the deal” against him, and is instead trailing him badly.