The Pennsylvania Primary is three weeks away and Clinton is holding onto her solid  lead in polls. She’s expected to win the state but that hasn’t stopped Obama from campaigning there.

Meanwhile… on the GOP side,  McCain is on a week-long tour of the country emphasizing his life story. No word yet how he’ll be commemorating his status as a founding member of that 80s punk rock quatrtet, The Keating Five. (I liked their first album but then they really sold out).

The news bits…

If Karl Rove jumped off a bridge, would you? (once you were done laughing I mean)
Harold Ickes of the Clinton team tells Talking Points Memo that discussion of Obama’s former pastor  is fair game since the Republicans will do it in the fall.  So… the idea is that if the GOP will do it, it’s okay for the dems to do it? By that twisted logic, since the GOP will make repeated offensive Monica Lewinsky references, is it fair for Obama’s team to do that? Of course not. Olberman summed it up when he said that Clinton is running like a Republican (I think he meant that in the worst Rovian sense of the word). For the record, the line of reasoning is also complete BS. The Clintons are able to make attacks on Obama that the right can’t. Nobody thinks Bill (our “first black President”) or Hillary has a racist bone in their bodies - they simply know America has lots of them and they’re clearly not above exploiting that fact to win. The right has - fairly or unfairly - a pretty bad reputation on race and any attacks on that group play to that stereotype so they can’t do it. Hillary and Bill are providing the right with a license to pursue this line of attack - not the other way around.

Another delegate for Obama
NBC has adjusted their delegate count in Mississippi giving Obama another delegate. This brings Obama’s lead to 130 delegates.

NBC News has adjusted the delegate count in Mississippi, giving one more to Obama and one less to Clinton. The count was 19-14 and now stands at 20-13. The official results were certified in Mississippi and Obama finished with a slightly higher statewide vote result than originally indicated, 62.5% to 37.5%. That result broke a threshold and triggered the extra delegate.

McBacklash
There’s a definite backlash brewing for McCain. The media has been treating McCain the way SNL has been joking that they treat Obama. The real trouble with the media is that they’re padding McCain’s resume for him. Crooksandliars.com points out a MediaMatters.org story catching Charlie Rose repeating a very common McCain McMisconception…

 During an interview with Sen. Chuck Hagel, Charlie Rose falsely asserted that Sen. John McCain “early on call[ed] for the firing of Secretary Rumsfeld.” In fact, while McCain expressed “no confidence” in Rumsfeld in 2004, he did not call for him to be fired; he said the decision about whether Rumsfeld should leave was the president’s.

9/11 Co-Chair Hamilton endorses Obama
Bloomberg is reporting that Lee Hamilton, the co-chairman of the 9/11 commission, has endorsed Obama.

“I read his national security and foreign policy speeches, and he comes across to me as pragmatic, visionary and tough,” Hamilton said in an interview. “He impresses me as a person who wants to use all the tools of presidential power.”

Stumble it!

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