Countdown Tuesday: Race and the Race
Posted: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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The Wright Stuff: What began as the most important day of Barack Obama's candidacy for president... might well end up being remembered as the most important week of his campaign. Our fifth story on the Countdown: Having today broached the sensitive topic of race in a speech that even many of his critics saw as sweeping and moving...The Obama campaign announcing that tomorrow he will move on to address Iraq and national security... and then Thursday: Iraq and the economy.
The Audacity of Unity: The dirty little secret of politics, is that those who cover it, dream one day of hearing a speech so significant and so material that it -- and they -- transcend politics. Our fourth story on the Countdown: put your thesorauses away... since Abraham Lincoln sat down at Gettysburg in 1864, there have been precious few of them, and Barack Obama's today, was almost certainly not one of them. But as a political speech -- and as to its political impact -- this was a whopper. And look carefully. If it hadn't occurred to you already...This may have also been... an audition.
ODDBALL: A bobcat on the terlet and the oldest marathoner on planet earth.
Party Crashers: While Barack Obama was reportedly up until two o'clock this morning working on his speech to address the most serious crisis of his astonishing run... what was his campaign doing? In our third story tonight, some of Obama's top staffers were talking to Politico dot-com... not to augment his message of healing and unity... but to push a message of their own... that Hillary Clinton will sacrifice anything, including the Democratic Party itself, to win the nomination... An unnamed senior aide to Obama saying he believes Clinton is willing to, quote, "destroy the party" to get the nomination.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Rupert Murdoch, John McCain and Keith himself vie for tonight's top honors.
The Luv Guvs: Three present or former Governors...A singing prostitute...And a menage-a-trois that was dubbed "The Friday Night Special"... My producers say... "Number One Story!" I say... "Stories My Producers Are Forcing Me To Cover." And oh yeah, trysts at a Days Inn... Could be worse, could be Motel 6... we'll leave the light on for you.
