Countdown Thursday: Exit Signs?
Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Still Not Over:
While Senator Clinton has today made a jaw-dropping racially-divisive rationalization to continue her lame-duck candidacy... in its self-destructiveness and delusion, a comment worthy of Richard Nixon's final days... While her campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe has insisted this will continue to -- and be resolved by -- June... In our fifth story: if the candidate is usually the last to know, the chairman might be the runner-up. 
What Next?:
With just six primaries to go - and with Senator Obama preparing to declare victory in the pledged delegate count after May 20th - there seem to be only two questions left for Senator Hillary Clinton. When does she officially end her candidacy -- and in our fourth story on the Countdown --what does she do next? ODDBALL: A tuba player takes matters into his own hands (feet) and the worlds first green dog.
For God's Sake:
It is as if Barack Obama had suddenly welcomed back Jeremiah Wright. Pastor John Hagee, for whose endorsement John McCain had lobbied, had blamed Hurricane Katrina on divine vengeance because New Orleans was going to hold a gay-pride parade. A week ago, Hagee said he was wrong. Yesterday, Hagee said... no, I was right. It was because New Orleans was going to hold a gay-pride parade. Our third story tonight: the Pastor double-standard, anything but Pastoral.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Dick Morris, John McCain and Mark Penn vie for tonight's top honors.
Feud Renewed: Sex, infidelity, in-fighting with a co-anchor... For this kind of stuff about celebrities -- temporary and enduring -- America has turned, for four decades, to Barbara Walters. Only not until now has her reporting been about... Barbara Walters. And in our number one story on the Countdown, odd to see her taken to task for anything in her recently published life story -- certainly not from light-weights like Star Jones, or Bill O'Reilly.
