Pleeease Don't Stop Now

The Great Sausage Race
"And the winner is....."
"Hey! How 'bout one more lap?"

This past week has been another doozie on the Democratic campaign trail. As I write, reports are coming out that (with South Dakota and Montana ending the primary season) it may be over after tonight-or maybe not. Hillary is going to bow out-or maybe not. According to what network you are watching, Obama needs 12 delegates...11 delegates...6 delegates.....enough delegates. The news media is in a countdown mode not seen since Saddam Hussein was being led to the gallows. Hillary is due to speak tonight in New York. What will she say? Is she dropping out? Will she try to get delegates to change their minds-even at the convention? Is she open to VP? Would Obama accept her (and Bill?)

This just in.... Maxine Waters has switched her endorsement from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama. Who is Maxine Waters, you ask?.....You don't want to know.

Of course, no news about Hillary is complete without news about Bill. Todd Purdom, a writer for Vanity Fair-and husband of former Clinton spokeswoman, Dee Dee Myers- has come out with an article that describes Bill's post White House years as filled with private jets and road trips with women other than his erstwhile wife. Now, some actress named Gina Gershon has been named as one of Bill's "co-respondents". (She denies the relationship.) Bill, who knows one when he sees one, entertained curious South Dakota on-lookers with a profanity-laced description of Purdom (slimy, lying scumbag among other things.)

Meanwhile, back in Obamaland, the Illinois senator reacted to the most recent outburst by Michael Pfleger in the Trinity United Church of Christ by resigning from the Church. I guess twenty years of listening to raving lunatics is enough for anybody. Even then, Obama tried to gain sympathy talking about his having to have his faith held up to scrutiny every time someone opens their mouth in that church. He praised the new pastor, Otis Moss, as a "great young pastor" even though Moss apparently believes the same things Pfleger and Jeremiah Wright believe. Yet, he still tries to talk around the question of how he could stay in that church for twenty years listening to those tirades. (He has also been associated with Pfleger for 20 years, had him listed on his website as a "spiritual endorser", and, now it is being reported that he steered about $100,000 in federal earmarks to Pfleger's projects after having previously funded Pfleger's work as a state senator to the tune of over $200,000.)

Speaking of money.....

If it wasn't bad enough that America has now been introduced to Father Pfleger, it is now breaking that the Chicago jury in the federal corruption trial of Obama financial pal Tony Rezko has reached a verdict on some of the charges. If Rezko is convicted, that will unleash fresh questions of why the senator had financial dealings with yet another disreputable character. Secondly, if convicted, Rezko just might decide to sit down with prosecutors and spill the beans on his relationship with Obama (and Governor Blagojevich). See why Hillary doesn't want to throw in the towel?

I'll sign off here and await the night's "developments" hoping that it isn't over yet.