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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Your Morning News: 5.21.08

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As everyone predicted, Senator Clinton won the Kentucky primary and Senator Obama won the Oregon primary. So, if everyone knew that it was going to happen, why does it matter? Well, it does and it doesn’t. Senator Obama secured a majority in pledged delegates last night. He is still 100 delegates short of securing the nomination, but even if he received no delegates at all in the remaining primaries (not going to happen) he would still come out with a majority of pledged delegates. That means the only way Clinton can win is if she wins all of the remaining primaries by massive margins and then the superdelegates decide en masse to support her. At least, I think that is what it means, chances are Mike Gravel will end up winning the whole thing and usher the whole world into a youtube-fueled era of peace and prosperity.

So why doesn’t Hillary drop out? Ask her. This article actually lists a lot of good and thoughtful reasons she shouldn’t drop out. Read it and then inject some of them when your coworkers are bashing her.

Hey so, funny story, the FBI has a “War Crimes File” on stuff they saw the US Military do at Guantanamo Bay. Not so much funny “ha ha” as funny “collaborating with the Chinese Government to torture Chinese prisoners being held there.” Christ.

Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy has been diagnosed with a malignant tumor following his collapse and subsequent hospitalization this past weekend. It does not look good and I, for one, want wish the best to the Senator.

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