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Metaphors in the Democratic Primary #
This one was too rich not to share:
Hillary Clinton enthusiastically picked a filly named Eight Belles to win the Kentucky Derby and compared herself to the horse. Eight Belles finished second. The winner was the favorite, Big Brown. Eight Belles collapsed immediately after crossing the finish line, and was euthanized shortly thereafter.
John McCain’s Temper #
In what The Page calls an “amazing wire story,” Libby Quaid explores Senator McCain’s reputation as a hothead for the AP.
“F — - you,” he shouted at Texas Sen. John Cornyn last year.
“Only an a — — — would put together a budget like this,” he told the former Budget Committee chairman, Sen. Pete Domenici, in 1999.
“I’m calling you a f — — — jerk!” he once retorted to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.
Bill Clinton More Covered than Any GOP Candidate #
The Project for Excellence in Journalism has news that’s galling and/or obvious. Bill Clinton got more media coverage last week than any Republican candidate or John Edwards.
Obama edged Hillary Clinton by the narrowest of margins. But her surrogate and husband—whose aggressive attacks on Obama and increasingly conspicuous role have been manna for political pundits—was the third-most prominent newsmaker in the race for President last week, January 21 through 27. That period began two days after the Nevada caucuses and ended the day after the Democrats’ South Carolina primary.
(via The Page)