Obama Wins Maine, Steals Bill Clinton’s Grammy
Monday, February 11th, 2008
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]
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]
Ha ha, did you think there might be a single weekend off after the deeply unsatisfying Super Tuesday Spectacle? Saturday features five more contests, including caucuses in Kansas, Nebraska and Washington state, a full primary election in Louisiana, some kind of “pretend to vote” conference in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and finally a Sunday caucus for the Maine Democrats. We’ll have weekend updates as polls close. [
Ron Paul’s “Maine Strategy,” previously unmentioned by the Main Stream Media because they hate happiness, is finally kicking into gear. Ron Paul has waited, and now will win both nominations — because he just might win the Maine caucuses this weekend. 
In the Department of Stuff That Might Be True, we go to Wayne Madsen and his occasionally semi-accurate unsourced website. 
Remember the lawyer up in Maine who busted out the