Countdown Wednesday: Dem Eat Dem

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
Filed Under: Blogging the Countdown

Just Words:  Though polling tonight suggests that the Jeremiah Wright controversy has been less damaging to Barack Obama over the last two weeks... than the Hillary Clinton campaign has been damaging... to Hillary Clinton... The candidacy of implication tonight continues, unabated. Our fifth story on the Countdown: Senator Clinton today... again ruling in the possibility of a pledged delegate switch -- whether by mutiny or epiphany. And Senator Obama, back on the trail, responding to yesterday's implications about his former pastor.

Fog of Memory:  "I was sleep-deprived... I misspoke."  That, Senator Clinton's mis-characterization of her trip to Bosnia in a speech nine days ago. Yet in our fourth story on the Countdown -- and the two other times she mis-recounted the trip?  Chronic sleep deprivation? Continuing through Monday when she clarified her recollection -- which turns out also to have been inaccurate? And if she was - is she really the best candidate to be picking up the phone at 3 am in the White House?

ODDBALL: The cow that milks itself.

War More Years:  John McCain hates war. He hates every single war he lobbies for... with such consistent fervor... that his major foreign policy speech today included some of the same exact sentences he used back in 2001... to tell us how much he hated war in Afghanistan, too. Our third story on the Countdown: and he's seen a lot of wars to hate. Perhaps he will later regret beginning his speech by saying, quote: "When I was five years old, a car pulled up in front of our house in New London, Connecticut, and a Navy officer rolled down the window, and shouted at my father that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor." The only way he could have reminded more voters, more pungently, that he is not a spring chicken is if he had begun that speech with "Abraham Lincoln told me..."

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