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- Jeremiah Wright doesn't seem to be doing much to help Obama out.
- Kevin Drum points out how little we know about John McCain's assets and how absurd it is to ignore Cindy McCain's assets. Drum asks if the press is really going to let McCain get away with this. My guess? Yes.
- David Corn gets Terry McAuliffe to promise the nomination fight will be over by June 15. I think that, whatever McAuliffe does, he'll be proven right since the already immense pressure on super delegates to endorse will increase about a thousandfold after the last primary on June 3. Howard Dean concurs (though his date is the end of June).
- Obama makes a statement that leaves open a tiny hole for opponents to claim he said they could criticize him about Wright. John McCain jumps right for it ... and, to my mind anyway, gets stuck.
- Meet Obama's new stump speech, (mostly) the same as his old stump speech.
- Bloomberg's Christopher Stern points out that Obama will derive enormous power from his massive database no matter what the outcome of the primary.
- Alan Keyes can't even get the nomination of the Constitution Party.
- Avi Zenilman has more details on ad-on delegate selection.
- Finally, one way you can tell how scared Republicans are of Democrats using McCain's "100 years" comment is to listen to how much they whine when it's used. Their complaints, by the way, are without merit. Sure McCain did stipulate that our 100 years in Iraq would be peaceful like our occupation of Korea, but, since that seems about as likely as McCain publicly converting to Islam, McCain's comments are indeed an endorsement of perpetual war. If the interpretation really was unfair he'd be able to explain what he actually believes instead of repeatedly complaining that use of the comment is "unfair" and "taken out of context." He hasn't refuted the Democratic interpretation because it accurately reflects his beliefs.
