Mo’ better victimage: On the other hand, if you’re running for president not as an unexceptional first-term senator with a thin resume but as the new Messiah, the new Kennedy, the new Gandhi, the new Martin Luther King, you can’t blame folks for leaping ahead to the next stage in the mythic narrative. Around the world, a second instant sub-genre has sprung up in which commentators speculate how long it

who can dig the humor in the dumb. (starts at about min 27)

Sean Wilentz and Julian E. Zelizer, who teach US political history at Princeton University, do not actually endorse Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid in their Sunday WaPo op-ed, “A Rotten Way to Pick a President.”  But their complaints about “our badly flawed system” for picking presidential candidates sound as though Clinton could have been giving them dictation. Their criticisms?  Caucuses can be highly undemocratic.  Michigan and Florida may be disenfranchised. 

Teh chingulariteh.  (h/t Hot Air)

Shocking!  Exposed! Here’s the guy’s scam site. 

Smegmatist?

E.J. Dionne, Jr. — of all people — traces the ills of Sen. Hillary’s Clinton’s supposedly “inevitable” candidacy to bad organization: The major flaw in the early story line is that there never was a Clinton machine in the sense of a well-populated organization skilled at turning out votes. Clinton campaigns have always been top-down operations focused on message and media. The Clintons have never lived in a world of

weighs in on Obama.

Thomas Joscelyn at The Weekly Standard: The assassination of Mugniyah has been widely reported in the press. Most accounts have gotten the details of his early career right. They have noted Mugniyah’s role in some of the first Islamist terrorist attacks against the United States, including the bombings of the U.S. embassy and U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 and a series of hijackings and kidnappings throughout the 1980s

The main campaign story at New York Times right now is about Al Gore possibly playing the “honest broker” for a peaceful resolution to what could be a battle royale between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton over the Democratic presidential nomination. But how honest is the New York Times? First, the Gore-y part: Democratic Party officials said that in the past week Mr. Gore and other leading Democrats had held private talks