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- The last couple of days have been pretty weird even for 2008. First, an election that everyone agreed could easily go to Clinton did, and this somehow convinced most major media figures to go from arguing she was finished to arguing she had as good a shot at the nomination as Obama.
- Second, Clinton suddenly began acting as if she had some vast heretofore unknown store of foreign policy experience (when she got into details they weren’t very convincing) and arguing Obama was unfit to be commander in chief.
- Third, she also said she’d be happy to have him as her VP, which confused people since she was simultaneously arguing he was unfit to be President.
- Finally, her campaign spokesman argued that he could gain the relevant experience by November which, in addition to just not making any sense, contradicted the entire criticism of him she’d been making for the last week (if he can "become" qualified as VP why can’t he become qualified as a top of the ticket candidate). As Bill Clinton said about this issue “that’s politics” or, in human speak, "the thing my wife has been saying for a week isn’t true." Oh, and somewhere in there Obama won Wyoming by big margins.
- In other bizarre news, Hillary Clinton observed that pledged delegates can vote for whomever they want. This is true, but while I guess the idea is to convince superdelegates to stay out for now, it seems more likely to make them get in to avoid the incredibly contentious convention that would result if Clinton did something that Obama supporters would see, rightly, as totally beyond the pale. Oh, and then her spokesman ruled the possibility out.
- And the weirdness isn’t limited to the Clinton campaign, either. Obama remained inexplicably silent about the possibility of his serving as Clinton’s VP until today when he rejected the idea of joint ticket almost unequivocally.
- On a lighter but still weird note, Clinton cut loose a big Turkish-American bundler who’d made the most expensive movie ever made in Turkey which starred Gary Busey as “a Jewish American Army doctor who harvests organs from injured Iraqis at Abu Ghraib to sell to rich transplant patients in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.”
- John McCain is getting into the game too with this web-only video which gives you an idea of what it’d be like to be Norman Podhoretz on shrooms.
- The award for most mind-blowingly bizarre news of the day though, goes to Bill Kristol who proposes Clarence Thomas as McCain’s VP. Yes. Really.
- Even Hendrik Hertzberg gets in on the crazy, making a improbably compelling case for Condi Rice as McCain’s VP.
- Finally, the superdelegate situation is even weirder than you think, and Clinton most likely loses a superdelegate because the Governor of New York is frequenting prostitutes.
—Sam Boyd
