More views of the Throw Grandma Under the Bus Speech:  Clarissa Pinkola Estes Krauthammer  Peggy Noonan’s Pieta Eyes  Honky Pride t-shirts available (h/t Insty) Hey, baby. You’re not depressed, are you?

At RCP, Jay Cost brings the statistics and the scatterplot to show — as suspected — that Pennsylvania is indeed much like Ohio, and builds a model for both states based on the number of African Americans, how “upscale” white voters are, and the percentage of residents are aged 20-24 in a given county.  The model accounts for 70% of all variation in countywide vote returns in Ohio.   That is pretty darn

There’s a reason Hillary Clinton has remained silent during the flap over intemperate remarks by Barack Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. I refer — of course — to Clinton’s desire to avoid media scrutiny of her endorsement of Heather Mills.  The sight of Clinton thanking Mills for her work in organizing the 9/11 concert for the NYC police and firefighters who booed her might be embarassing.  And thanking Mills for her work

Here! Never mind.  It’s just pictures of her with a couple of babies.  Clinton unveils new stimulus package! No cigar. Hillary. Well, Liz is gorgeous as ever. And Mike is selling Cold Fury ad space cheap for those who’d like to get a bit more exposure for their blogs.

Goat really, really angry. “Angry, belligerent, mean-spirited” Killer stingray root causes: Stingray really, really angry. John Kerry: Elect a Faun, or Man Ray

Barack Obama endorser/superdelegate Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, explains to the local media why Obama would empower moderate Muslims to stand up to radical Islamists: “Because he’s a black man.” So how close on the racist spectrum is this to Geraldine Ferraro?  Or Obama’s grandmother? HALP! (h/t Memeorandum.) Aside: I am looking for non-Obama bloggables at the moment, but Kerry pulled me back in…

Jeff’s not around to reiterate his view, but Michael Meyers states it quite well in his LA Times article about Obama’s missed opportunity: I waited in vain for our hybrid presidential candidate to speak the simple truth that there is no such thing as “race,” that we all belong to the same race — the human race. I waited for him to mesmerize us with a singular and focused appeal to hold

At TIME magazine, Jay Carney and Amy Sullivan write about “The Origin of Obama’s Pastor Problem,” recycling talking points from Barack Obama’s speech this week: When Obama joined Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988, the Afrocentric church and its pastor held particular appeal to a 27-year-old son of an African father he barely knew and a white mother from Kansas. Obama was searching for an identity and a community,

Allahpundit asks, incredulously. Under such a standard, can Kos be prosecuted for incitement to vote fraud? Related, Volokh post on prosecution for fraudulently claiming to be Medal of Honor recipient The counter-argument to Volokh, who holds this is probably constitutional: “If the government cannot under the First Amendment compel reverence when it comes to our nation’s highest symbol [the flag],” asked Ronald K. L. Collins, a scholar at the First

Although the Reuters headline is “Views of Obama’s pastor reflect black U.S. tradition,” the report itself tells a far different story: Estimates of how many black churches use this style of preaching vary but it might represent 25 percent, said Harry Jackson, pastor of the 3,000-member Hope Christian Church, a multiracial but mainly black church in Washington, D.C. Many blacks would tolerate the views expressed by [the Rev. Jeremiah] Wright