Countdown Thursday: Super Switch
Posted: Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Dude, You're Getting a Delegate: If Bill Richardson became "Judas" and Fox News became "fair" and Richard Mellon Scaife became a "deathbed conversion"... what will Senator Clinton's campaign call Joe Andrew? Let's start with the most influential politician you probably had never heard of. In our fifth story on the Countdown: not just a Super-Delegate switched from Clinton to Barack Obama on the premise that he is the better candidate, and the divisions have served only to aide John McCain... But a man, appointed National Chairman of the Democratic National Committee nine years ago... by President Clinton. In fact the name-calling has begun. Mr. Andrew, of Indiana, who joins us in a moment... Immediately found his right to say he was from Indiana, challenged by Senator Clinton's Communications Director, and her foremost supporter in the Hoosier State, Senator Evan Bayh. No, I'm not kidding.
The Obama Interview: Part 1....In our fourth story on the Countdown, the issue of electability still dogs the Obama campaign - ably aided by the Clinton campaign offensive to persuade super-delegates to overrule the pledged delegate count.
Obama Part 2: Our third story on the Countdown: Hagee has now told the millions who watch him in church or on cable that America's school teachers quote "can command your child to read Harry Potter, which is nothing but a precursor of witchcraft..." And insisted that by refusing to post the Ten Commandments, the nation has invited satan and demonic spirits into its schools. If Jeremiah Wright had said any of that, or Hillary Clinton's pastor, there would be sky-rockets being shot off 24 hours a day by media, conservative and otherwise. Ask Senator Obama about that strange and disturbing hypocrisy. Continuing her conversation with Barack and Michelle Obama...Meredith Viera touched on his end of this bizarre equation: Reverend Wright.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Senator James Inhoff of Oklahoma, Senator McCain, and Bill-O vie for tonight's award.
Aircraft Stagecraft: There was no banner, just a piece of paper. The crowd was not military men, just civilians. There was no flight-suit... but there was an airplane. And for a combination of deception and naievete, and the consequential loss of life and freedom, it is the only thing comparable in the last 100 years of Western Democracy. The British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, stepping off a flight from Munich at Heston Aerodrome in England on September 30th, 1938, reading the note he and Hitler had signed guaranteeing the freedom of Czechoslovakia, and concluding: "My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep." Our number one story on the Countdown: only that, perhaps, is comparable, to what George W. Bush said five years ago today... Mis-leading...Disingenuous...Deliberately deceptive...Only in those ways was it... "Mission Accomplished."
