BECAUSE HE DIDN’T READ IT: Al Gore’s polar-bear movie, The Inconvenient Truth, won a Grammy last night for best audio book. Barack Obama’s Grammy-winning audio book is so much better. [Broadway World]

YOU KNOW WHO ELSE WON A GRAMMY WHO WAS BLACK AND UNELECTABLE? Bill Clinton is sure to point out that Jesse Jackson won a Grammy back in the 1980s, too, and look how much he never got to be president! [1988 Grammy Awards]

Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton 59%-40% in Maine, which puts him maybe in the lead or tied or behind Hillary Clinton in whatever sort of delegates you like to talk about. More important than these five victories in a row — did you forget the U.S. Virgin Islands? — was Obama’s victory in the crucial “spoken word performance” category of the Grammy Awards, which apparently happened tonight. Obama’s passionate reading of “My Book Called Hope” beat Bill Clinton breathily reading a list of his presidential pardons. [NY Times]

Both Bill Clinton and his wife’s mortal enemy, Barack Obama, were nominated for a Grammy today in the spoken word album category. Let the proxy war between politicians whose entire political careers are based on sexy voices begin! [CNN]