Let the twisting begin.

Buckeye State Blog:

Lt. Governor Lee Fisher put his foot in his mouth up to about the knee today when he left the door open for Ohio to sell Lake Erie water to drought-stricken states in the desert southwest….

Small problem with that plan…

Writes Likes She Talks:

My comment? Made me cringe and made me think, what a stupid line in general (as much as if not more so than the cotton picker slip) to push: that just because this country may in fact be the most diverse on so many levels that it’s also…what exactly? Because it isn’t by any stretch the most tolerant, accepting or embracing of the diversity it possesses. If it were, we wouldn’t be having these kinds of conversations and debates.

Full post at WLST.

The MSM is basically stupid.

For the better part of the last two weeks, the burgeoning consensus in the political world was that Barack Obama has become the prohibitive favorite for the Democratic nomination. The race would continue, but the competition was over — Hillary Clinton couldn’t narrow the gap, and would trail Obama in delegates, popular votes, and states. In one widely read piece, Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen wrote as if they’d stumbled upon a secret: “One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning.”

The funny thing was, Obama seemed largely oblivious to all of this. He was moving forward as if his primary fight was foremost on his mind, and his campaign continued to target Clinton as it had for months. It reinforced the notion that maybe the conventional wisdom was wrong — Obama certainly wasn’t acting like he’d wrapped this thing up. If the race for the nomination is over, shouldn’t Obama be ignoring Clinton?

Full post.