Terse Monday

Obama got it from the right--thanks to Rev. Wright--and from the left today, both Daily Kos and MoveOn.org pissed that he did an interview Sunday on Faux News.

If the widely quoted sentences from the Times story I referenced earlier are accurate, the Obama campaign may believe it is losing in Indiana. Why else say that they expect the primary campaign to go on past June 3?

Rachel Madow on Keith tonight provided Obama with a brilliant strategy for responding to the latest Wright appearances, which I will now mesh with my add-on: Obama can delineate the church-state separation, the spiritual and political, reaffirming the JFK position, stating that Wright was a spiritual pastor and not a political advisor, while noticing that John McCain is politically embracing preachers whose political positions are terrible, and could affect foreign policy, i.e. the U.S. was founded to wage holy war on Islam.

Clinton is getting the endorsement of the North Carolina governor tomorrow. That's not good news. How bad it is--how politically powerful he is-- nobody seems to know. But it makes him virtually the only officeholder in the state to endorse Hillary.

Former North Carolina Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards has not endorsed, and people are wondering if he will now. I doubt it. If he endorses Clinton, his political career will be over, even as an advocate for his causes of fighting poverty, etc., because in this polarized situation, black voters in North Carolina and elsewhere will never forgive him. And if he endorses Obama--I noted in a poll awhile back that his endorsement would actually make people less likely to vote for Obama. So if he's smart, he keeps quiet.