Living in a time of war and economic collapse, what else do we have to talk about but middle fingers? I’ll let you judge whether Obama’s alleged gesture was intentional. Anyway, Republicans flip the bird so much better.
Meanwhile, Robert Reich and Sam Nunn have declared their support for Obama.
Polls are all the place now. I don’t think anyone really knows what’s going on in the Pennsylvania electorate.
Update: See John Whitesides of Reuters, “Obama keeps rolling as Clinton running out of time.”
“It doesn’t seem like she has the power to alter the dynamic of the race anymore,” said Simon Rosenberg, head of the Democratic advocacy group NDN.
Rosenberg said Clinton’s scenario for winning the Democratic nomination was no longer believable.
“In every way you can measure it, he’s won more delegates, he’s won more states, he’s raised more money, he has a better organization — all the metrics one has of how to evaluate the race indicate he is winning and she is losing,” he said.
Science has not yet invented measurements small enough to express how little I care if it was a rude gesture or if it was intentional or not.
My second reaction is that a saavy politician, upon becoming convinced that trivial stupidity is the only thing that gets attention, might choose to be the one driving which trivial stupidities are being talked about. One assumes that giving a subtle finger might not be a thing that an effete elitist does, so being accused of it might actually enhance one’s standing, paradoxically. Particularly when the other side is suggesting Obama isn’t up to the rough-and-tumble.
I’m just sayin’.
Finally, the moment Hillary complains, I’ll be happy to paraphrase a noted Senator: “Being shown rude gestures is nothing like the pressures you face inside the White House. In fact, when the going gets tough, you just can’t walk away because we’re going to have some very tough decisions that we have to make. I think we need a president who can take whatever comes your way.â€
Take a look at balloon-juice. They have a still pic from a slightly different angle, clearly showing he’s scratching his cheek with *two* fingers.
People are insane.
-me
Hillary may just have cooked her own goose when she gave a metaphorical middle finger to Move On.
Read about it on firedoglake.
Some Hillary apologists are saying that endorsements really mean little. On the other hand some raged furious when Richardson endorsed Obama. See a contradiction here? (Reich has to be a real slap in the face.)
In fact, contradictary policies, opinions, and practices coming from the Hillary machine seem to be so consistent as to leave the decided, or undecided, voter so confused as to who Hillary really is and/or what she really believes that Hillary may end up losing by default.
Take a look at this Jeremy Scahill piece from RealTime last night. Not a scientific poll, but really amazing support given what we hear in the MSM.
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I think it’s time to administer last rites to Hillary’s bid for the nominaton. Everywhere you turn, word is..it’s over. Time to pack it in.
xymphora has recently suggested that Hillary is actually running for 2012 at this point, perhaps hoping to face an incumbent McCain, and I’m beginning to think he’s(?) right.