Barack Obama, speaking in Spanish, addresses Puerto Rico in advance of Sunday’s (!) primary.
** FROM THE MCCAIN INNER CIRCLE. Here’s an interview with my pal Steve Schmidt, senior advisor to Senator John McCain, on the campaign to come against Barack Obama.
** HASTA LA BYE BYE, HILL. Hillary Clinton is knocking back some shots with her journos — she won’t do a press conference with them, mind you — and doing some sightseeing.
** TEXAS DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN AND SPOUSE BACK OBAMA. Texas Democratic Party Chairman Boyd Richie, and his Democratic National Committee member wife Betty, this morning announced their superdelegate votes for Barack Obama. NWN was the first media outlet to report that Obama won the overall Texas contest in March. While Hillary Clinton narrowly won the primary, 51% to 48%, Obama won the caucuses that night, at which a record-shattering one million-plus voters participated, 59% to 41%.
** HILLARY FACES DEFEAT AT SATURDAY’S D.N.C. RULES COMMITTEE MEETING. Hillary Clinton has hinged her flickering hopes for the nomination on tomorrow’s DNC rules committee meeting, where she hopes that party officials will overturn the rules and seat the delegations she “won” in illegitimate primaries staged in Michigan and Florida. It’s not going to happen, as you see in this Huffington Post report.
** CALIFORNIA LOVES OBAMA. Despite the fact that he lost the February primary to Hillary Clinton, California Democrats now favor Barack Obama over Clinton, 51% to 38%, according to the new Field Poll. Obama leads John McCain in the Golden State by a whopping 17 points. Much as was the case last week in the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) poll. It may just be, incidentally, that launching one’s political career as an official of the Mitt Romney and McCain campaigns is not the ticket to the governorship of California …
** MY NEW PODCAST. The road ahead.
** WHERE THEY ARE TODAY.
Barack Obama is in Great Falls, Montana.
John McCain is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Hillary Clinton is in Puerto Rico.
Bill Clinton is in South Dakota.
** SCHWARZENEGGER LIVE WEBCAST THIS MORNING. Back from Mexico City — and I’ll have more on that trip later — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger holds a press conference this morning in the LA area community of Pacoima to announce $463 million in new allocations for construction and modernization at charter schools around California. Schwarzenegger will make the announcement at the Vaughn International Studies Academy. As many readers will recall, Schwarzenegger championed the successful passage of $42 billion in new infrastructure bonds in the 2006 general election. Now the money is beginning to be allocated, as you will see in the 10:15 AM event webcast live on www.gov.ca.gov.
** THE OTHER BIG PROBLEM WITH HILLARY’S NOTORIOUS REMARKS. I explain the OTHER big problem with Hillary Clinton’s notorious Friday afternoon remarks, on my other blog. (Not the RFK assassination reference, but her false claim that Bill Clinton’s 1992 nomination was in any doubt in June. As you’ll see, the Clinton high command knew in May that the fight was effectively over.)
** 24/7 LIVE TV NEWS FEED FROM RUSSIA TODAY. Russia has re-emerged as one of the world’s great powers. Click here for a live TV news feed on your computer, bringing you English-language, jargon-free, fast-paced coverage of global and Russian news from the new Russia Today channel. You probably already know about CNN International, BBC World, and Al Jazeera. Russia Today, which also features culture, entertainment, and sports, is based in Moscow and is owned and operated by the TV Novosti division of Russia’s state news agency, RIA Novosti.
While it’s quite foolish to expect to see, say, criticism of Vladimir Putin on Russia Today, which I know as a former DemRussia advisor, the channel is very interesting nonetheless. The NWN live link to RT does not constitute an endorsement of the channel’s views. It’s presented as an otherwise unavailable new media window.
** TRACK GLOBAL AND U.S. ENERGY PRICES IN NEAR REAL TIME VIA BLOOMBERG ENERGY MARKET WATCH. Crude oil is trading in the $127 to $128 per barrel range.
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Obama talks pretty good Spanish.
HA! Maybe Meg Whitman figured that out already, and plans to be a member of McCain’s cabinet should he win
her false claim that Bill Clinton’s 1992 nomination was in any doubt in June — She really is duplicitous, but some of the blame needs to go to Dean and company for giving her a reason to continue this late. It makes sense to insiders and activists, actual players in the game, to have a set of rules that will be enforced if violated. Seems fair to me. But the DNC should perhaps have spent more time thinking about how average folks in Michigan and Florida might perceive this move when they found out about it later. (It is fun acting like a Monday morning QB)
California will be the capitol of the Obama Nation, baby!
It’s a new era, a new generation of leadership, with the Westlys, Basses, Steinbergs sweeping away the Angelides, Nunezes and Peratas.
Let’s hope so.
Whatever happened to Phil Angelides anyway?
Angerlides! lol
Who’s Meg Whitman?
She’s the inventor of the Whitman Sampler.
Indeed.
>Ann:
Angerlides! lol
May 30, 2008 – 7:12 am
He’s a developer again.
>Jack Aubrey:
Let’s hope so.
Whatever happened to Phil Angelides anyway?
May 30, 2008 – 7:02 am
It kinda looks like it.
>Capitol Boy:
It’s a new era, a new generation of leadership, with the Westlys, Basses, Steinbergs sweeping away the Angelides, Nunezes and Peratas.
May 30, 2008 – 6:57 am
Perhaps.
>Capitol Boy:
California will be the capitol of the Obama Nation, baby!
May 30, 2008 – 6:56 am
There’s been a tremendous amount of deference given the Clintons, especially on the East Coast, which is still the center of our “national” media and political culture.
>Hap Hazard:
her false claim that Bill Clinton’s 1992 nomination was in any doubt in June — She really is duplicitous, but some of the blame needs to go to Dean and company for giving her a reason to continue this late. It makes sense to insiders and activists, actual players in the game, to have a set of rules that will be enforced if violated. Seems fair to me. But the DNC should perhaps have spent more time thinking about how average folks in Michigan and Florida might perceive this move when they found out about it later. (It is fun acting like a Monday morning QB)
May 30, 2008 – 6:54 am
Yeah. Maybe people will get the reference.
I did leave out the part about her being a friend of George Allen …
That’s a real plus in California.
>Hap Hazard:
HA! Maybe Meg Whitman figured that out already, and plans to be a member of McCain’s cabinet should he win
May 30, 2008 – 6:40 am
He’s much better than me, and I worked with the farmworkers.
>Jonas Blane:
Obama talks pretty good Spanish.
May 30, 2008 – 6:37 am
If Webb were a VP candidate, I can envision a You Tube hit piece rolling out calling McCain Macaca if Allen’s buddy was to be CEO of fundraising for McCain
i love your new HuffPo blog.
Thanks.
Yeah, he is the passenger in the taxi Robert Hays is driving. Jarvis even get the kicker last joke AFTER the credits finish.
>Bill Bradley:
Howard Jarvis was in Airplane?
This could actually get very ugly for the Republicans.
Even with John McCain, the only candidate who has a realistic chance of defeating OBAMA.
>Hap Hazard:
If Webb were a VP candidate, I can envision a You Tube hit piece rolling out calling McCain Macaca if Allen’s buddy was to be CEO of fundraising for McCain
May 30, 2008 – 8:16 am
Ya know, after remembering to stay for the post-credits scene in Iron Man, I have forgotten about the post-credits scene in Airplane …
>Dana:
Yeah, he is the passenger in the taxi Robert Hays is driving. Jarvis even get the kicker last joke AFTER the credits finish.
>Bill Bradley:
Howard Jarvis was in Airplane?
May 30, 2008 – 9:06 am
One survey says $4.50 is the breaking point where people start to seriously want options. Of course as a longtime mass transit advocate I can assure you much of anything we can do will take quite a while and require an end to the state raiding transportation funds to balance the budget.
Makes the bullet train bonds on the Nov. ballot (and possible addition sales tax measure in L.A. County) very interesting.
>Bill Bradley:
I’m paying $4.40 a gallon for gas. I am, as the British say, not amused.
Whose stupid idea is that?
BB: It may just be, incidentally, that launching one’s political career as an official of the Mitt Romney and McCain campaigns is not the ticket to the governorship of California …
What idiot thinks Meg Whitman can be the Governor of California?
lol
Your podcast link is fucked up as usual.
Corrected.
My co-producer of the show sends me a link and then we go from there.
Thanks.
>Ann:
lol
May 30, 2008 – 9:34 am
Well, they are good folks who are getting paid a ton of money.
>Jack Aubrey:
What idiot thinks Meg Whitman can be the Governor of California?
May 30, 2008 – 9:20 am
I’m not going there.
>Ann:
Whose stupid idea is that?
BB: It may just be, incidentally, that launching one’s political career as an official of the Mitt Romney and McCain campaigns is not the ticket to the governorship of California …
May 30, 2008 – 9:17 am
Well, anything over $4 a gallon is infuriating.
>Dana:
One survey says $4.50 is the breaking point where people start to seriously want options. Of course as a longtime mass transit advocate I can assure you much of anything we can do will take quite a while and require an end to the state raiding transportation funds to balance the budget.
Makes the bullet train bonds on the Nov. ballot (and possible addition sales tax measure in L.A. County) very interesting.
>Bill Bradley:
I’m paying $4.40 a gallon for gas. I am, as the British say, not amused.
May 30, 2008 – 9:11 am
That’s for sure.
Bill Bradley:
Well, anything over $4 a gallon is infuriating.
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Did a little food shopping yesterday…loaf of bread and a box of cereal…cost me $10.44
That’s more than infuriating….that’s fracking crazy!!!
I love your Huffington Post column on California.
Gas ain’t hovering roun’ two dollars no mo’
and a man goes broke down at the grocery store
Better hop on dat bike and buy local
Cuz the times, they are a-cha-a-a-aangin’
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Sacramento Solon:
Bill Bradley:
Well, anything over $4 a gallon is infuriating.
——
Did a little food shopping yesterday…loaf of bread and a box of cereal…cost me $10.44
That’s more than infuriating….that’s fracking crazy!!!
Because of this site, I drive significantly less than I used to. There are actually some days on which I don’t drive at all.
Which, given the advent of $4.40 a gallon (premium, required by the Jag) gasoline, is just as well.
Thanks. Another one is due.
>marcos leon:
I love your Huffington Post column on California.
May 30, 2008 – 10:52 am
Umm … What kind of bread are you buying?
>Sacramento Solon:
Bill Bradley:
Well, anything over $4 a gallon is infuriating.
——
Did a little food shopping yesterday…loaf of bread and a box of cereal…cost me $10.44
That’s more than infuriating….that’s fracking crazy!!!
May 30, 2008 – 10:30 am
This sounds like … Bulworth.
>Chris M:
Gas ain’t hovering roun’ two dollars no mo’
and a man goes broke down at the grocery store
Better hop on dat bike and buy local
Cuz the times, they are a-cha-a-a-aangin’
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Sacramento Solon:
Bill Bradley:
Well, anything over $4 a gallon is infuriating.
——
Did a little food shopping yesterday…loaf of bread and a box of cereal…cost me $10.44
That’s more than infuriating….that’s fracking crazy!!!
May 30, 2008 – 10:54 am
Bill Bradley:
Umm … What kind of bread are you buying?
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Grateful Bread Golden Honey Whole Wheat…made locally. Five ingredients. Very healthy bread. Just checked, it’s $5.25 per loaf. Wasn’t that long ago that it was less that $4.50.
Cereal has also jumped recently.
Things just be crazy…including me!
Clearly, that is an extraordinary indulgence …
“Barack Obama, speaking in Spanish”
si se puede!
“California Democrats now favor Barack Obama over Clinton, 51% to 38%”
Well Hillary has such a nostalgia for June California primaries (and assasinations), why don’t we let the people vote in California next week?
Sacto – I feel your pain. We used to but Greatfull bread, but the price got too high months ago. I’m on Truckee Sourdough and TJ’s Honey Wheat.
I’ve never heard of this bread.
Bill Bradley:
Clearly, that is an extraordinary indulgence …
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You’re right. Both bread and cereal are now stricken from the shopping list. Milk will be next, followed by…
I’m sure she’d like that.
I always thought that if Obama had the time to campaign in California, he would beat the Clintons here.
Her last redoubt is New York.
>Brasky:
“California Democrats now favor Barack Obama over Clinton, 51% to 38%”
Well Hillary has such a nostalgia for June California primaries (and assasinations), why don’t we let the people vote in California next week?
May 30, 2008 – 11:56 am
Or, as a certain senator from the Eastern seaboard put it, “Si se pueda.”
>Brasky:
“Barack Obama, speaking in Spanish”
si se puede!
May 30, 2008 – 11:52 am
Food prices are outrageous. And everything else is going up too. Dow Chemical just announced a major price increase for their industrial customers – anything plastic or that uses pesticides is going to have another price increase.
The whole country is sliding into a Carter-like malaise and all the Republicans can talk about are millionaire tax breaks and frequent flyer miles to Iraq. These guys are seriously out of step with reality.