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Countdown Monday: Primary Primer

Posted: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:48 PM by Countdown
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The Biggest Prize:  On the eve of the 97th different make or break day in the Democratic primary, with the latest pronouncement that nearly half of all the remaining pledged delegates are up for grabs in Indiana and North Carolina, with all of it spiced up only by a new high in hyperbole about how your future literally depends on voting for Senator Clinton, tomorrow already feels like.... Groundhog Day.

Clinton's campaign:  Remember when Senator Clinton was the Washington insider, saying Michigan shouldn't count, and being favored by big business? A lot of things have changed since then, like the way the Clinton campaign is telling us we have to measure who's leading the Democratic nominating process. We review the many, many, many changes in metrics - for those of you scoring at home, or even if you're alone.

ODDBALL: A leafy musician, a boomerang in space, and why live interviews plus big dogs equals TV gold. 

Double-Talk Express:  After the stumbles we told you about Friday, Senator John McCain today clarified his controversial remarks about war and oil. It's official now, if you elect President McCain, he promises he'll make absolutely sure he doesn't have any reason to wage war over oil. Woo-hoo!

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD:  Steve Doocy, William Kristol and Comedian Rush Limbaugh fight for top honors.

Escape from Gitmo: A harmless battery-operated device mistaken for a bomb. A Homeland Security bureaucrat who thinks that Al Qaeda and North Korea have suddenly teamed up. And the interrogation in which rights are laughed off as something that don't exist in Guantanamo Bay. Not the headlines from any airport or Michael Chertoffs office, but rather a few plot points from "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay". Kumar, a-k-a actor Kal Penn, joins us.

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#3 Mr. Bush has already clearly defined his relationship to Senator McCain in this campaign --

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/us/politics/11web-stolberg.html?hp

“If my showing up and endorsing him helps him, or if I’m against him and it helps him — either way, I want him to win,” Mr. Bush said then.

Exactly.

Anna Molly (Sent Monday, May 05, 2008 9:26 PM)

It isn't just the metrics and math that have changed - Clinton's entire cognitive framework has moved.  She started with a sense of entitlement and has progressed to desperation.  And she used the nuclear option - so they can't go back.  We'd better pray to St. Rita (impossibilities) that if Obama wins the nominiation he will be able to clean up the damage.  You have to ask yourself what she's going to do next; how much worse can it get?  Are they willing to go everywhere they've gone before, squared?

Terri Aubergine, Seattle WA (Sent Monday, May 05, 2008 9:31 PM)

Keith:  Your analysis of Clinton math tonight was amazing and right on target.  Very reflective of the campaign double-speak, and delivered excellently.

Great job.

Susan, State College, PA (Sent Monday, May 05, 2008 10:00 PM)

I hope the above summary is complete, i.e., Keith won't be wasting valuable air time talking about
Rev. Wright and instead talk about the issues!

E. Collier Puyallup, WA (Sent Monday, May 05, 2008 10:07 PM)

Keith, dear, they ought to clone you!  Keith and Keith2.  Both wearing those gorgeous purple ties!  Lol!

Honeymama, Greenwood (Sent Monday, May 05, 2008 10:20 PM)

Excellent review of Clinton's flip flops on which states matter.  Mine didn't matter...Minnesota.  I sent my family and friends in Indiana the link to the "what matters".  Indiana didn't matter a short while ago because it bordered Obama's Illinois.  Lot's of double speak.  Wake up America.  Also note the Clinton's now caring about Hoosiers despite pushing for NAFTA that caused major loss of steel mill & plant jobs to China.  Do we really want that?  Wake up Hoosiers and do the right thing?

Kim, St. Paul, MN (Sent Monday, May 05, 2008 11:11 PM)

I love you, Keith, really I do, but every other MSNBC political show is still Wright obsessed and not covering the real issues that are incredibly important in this election.  You're the only one I can watch anymore.  I hope you'll continue to take the high road hosting the primary returns tomorrow with Matthews.  He's seemed to have buckled under the pressure from the Clinton camp.

Lisa Dorward, Morgantown, WV (Sent Monday, May 05, 2008 11:19 PM)

Keith I hope you see this. My wife and you are two of your biggest fans the fact that you tell the truth about things on your show is just wonderful to hear.Unlike the what the other shows on your network have become. I have become so upset with the rest of MSNBC that the only show even worth airing in my is your show.Please keep up the good work. I will say tha even though I oft time disagree with Dan Abrams I have found his news a least more stomachable than the other people. I feel that some of the other shows have become surrogates for fix fox fux news. So once again my wife and I thank you .

Brian Mills de. (Sent Monday, May 05, 2008 11:35 PM)

I want a copy of that list clintonspeak rationalizations as to which states count and which are not important and the litany of ever-changing rules the political game should be played by in this particular election.  I want to be able to learn to rattle it all off just like you did tonight, Keith. Such tactics are what propelled me to get my aching bones up to North Carolina for two days to campaign for Barack Obama.
Sheila Jackson, Greer, South Carolina

Sheila Jackson, (Sent Monday, May 05, 2008 11:45 PM)



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