Countdown Friday: Guam and Beyond
Posted: Friday, May 02, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Gas Pains:
A gallon of gas -- regular, un-leaded -- goes for about four dollars and nineteen cents... on the American territory of Guam. If this fact somehow seems irrelevant to you, consider that this afternoon, just four days before the Democratic nominating battle is re-joined in North Carolina and Indiana...The price of a gallon of gas in Guam was one of the issues for Senators Clinton and Obama.Considering Guam is caucusing today -- Saturday, their time. Eight pledged delegates, with half-a-vote each. Five Super-delegates. Our fifth story on the Countdown: Both Senators doing radio interviews by phone to Guam today. Senator Clinton specifically pushing her gas plans. Senator Obama emphasizing that he was from a Pacific Island himself. Senator Clinton restraining from saying "so am I."
You Say Dubai, I say Hello:
A network that built its audience by tearing down the Clinton presidency and which still insists the Clintons were responsible for a murder...A radio show that is deliberately fostering chaos in the democratic party... A slew of blogs, magazines and newspapers that formed the core of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" in the 1990s.. Our Fourth story on the Countdown -- **all** of them now embraced by Hillary Clinton's campaign. "I'm bringing people together as we speak," she joked here nearly two weeks ago.ODDBALL: Duct Tape Bandit and Take your Yak to Work day...weee!!
War for Oil:
The Republican candidate for President of the United States today directly tied the Iraq War, and the prospects of further American bloodshed in the Middle East, to the price -- and availability -- of oil. Our third story on the Countdown: what was once the far right's favorite example of supposed left-wing tin-foil-hat conspiracy theory, is now part of John McCain's campaign platform.
Worsties...see below.WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Ben Stein, Ann Coulter and Bill-O vie for tonight's top honor.
Lewis & Spark: This may be the oddest way my friend Richard Lewis has ever been introduced. On the first of May, 1915...The British luxury liner "Lusitania" set forth from New York. Even though all the advertisements for her trip to Liverpool had been accompanied by ads purchased by the German government that all ships flying the British flag were "liable to destructon" in the Atlantic... 1,959 passengers crowded her decks. Our number one story: they had been warned -- yet 1,198 would die, when the Germans, sank the Lusitania. Just as we had been warned on a later first of May -- 2003 -- that the man who stood before us and proclaimed "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq, had lied us into the war, had already repeatedly lied about the war, and was probably then lying about the war being virtually at an end. And most of us still got on board... with George Bush.
