Countdown Monday: 5th Anniversary Edition
Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:45 PM by Countdown
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Past Due: It may happen exactly as Senator Clinton has predicted. Party leaders and Super-Delegates, not the pledged kind selected by the voters, rearing up and taking command of the Democratic party, determining that one potential presidential nominee can succeed and the other cannot; that one can lead them to the White House, and the other can lead them only to friction and even fracture, and saying to one of them, "in the name of God, go." Only, they may not do it to Senator Obama. They may do it to her.
Sadr State of Affairs: Iraq. All quiet on the Western and Eastern Fronts. Unless you count the rockets and guns. Senator Chuck Hagel joins us on that and on the whispers about who might want him, as Vice-President.
ODDBALL: A racetrack deliberately configured for crashes. Fun for the whole family!
Booed at the Ballgame: For a President of the United States, there is nothing quite like experiencing the barometer of public opinion, in person, from a crowd that has not been vetted for affection. President Bush, who even his fiercest critics acknowledge is a pretty good baseball fan, threw out the first pitch on the deliriously happy occasion of the grand opening of the first new baseball-only stadium in Washington since 1901. And they still booed him.
Worst Person in the World: Walmart vying with an Ohio Judge and the Governor of Pennsylvania for top honors.
5 Years of Countdown: We celebrate five years to the day, of the first newscast in this series, by returning to a date slightly more recent. August 30th, 2006. The first "Special Comment."
