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- The Politico looks at the Credentials Committee and finds Obama likely to have the votes he needs to prevent the seating of the Florida and Michigan delegations assuming he gets most of Dean's nominees (which is likely since Dean opposes seating those states' delegations). Marc Ambinder has some quibbles and a good summary.
- Simon Rosenberg explains to Noam Scheiber how the long interval without a primary has hurt Hillary.
- I'm not political mastermind, but I kinda doubt saying that you'd be "shocked" if your favorite presidential candidate's primary opponent doesn't end up in the White House is a good strategy. As Christopher Beam says, this makes you wonder how many of Clinton's superdelegates are just waiting to jump to Obama and that's of course another reason it's a bad thing to say.
- Conservatives are flipping out because Obama said he didn't want one of his daughters "punished with a baby" as a teenager. It's the dumbest controversy since they said he was "throwing his grandmother under a bus."
- Clinton supporters are happier with the idea of a Vice President Obama than Obama supporters are with the idea of a Vice President Clinton. That's fine as far as it goes, but the point of a joint ticket is to bring in the loser's supporters not the winner's. After all, the winner won, his or her supporters got the main thing they wanted and they should be able to accept a disappointing VP.
- Suprise, suprise, McCain still doesn't understand Iraq. Today he suggests that Maliki was on the "winning side" of the recent fighting in Basra. That's not... true.
- Hagel won't rule out endorsing Obama.
--Sam Boyd
