Rick Sanchez blasts "Joe the Plumber"

On Wednesday, CNN's Rick Sanchez went after "War Corespondent" Joe the Plumber:



Thanks for reminding me of this, Charles!

Joe Biden on McCain's foreign policy

Senator Joe Biden on CNN's American Morning July 16, 2008:

"We don't need someone as commander in chief who's a war hero, we need someone with some wisdom".

Obama reaches majority of pledged delegates

With the addition of two more delegates from Tuesday's Kentucky contest, CNN projects that Barack Obama now has 1,628 pledged delegates — a majority of the 3253 pledged delegates available in this year's Democratic presidential nominating contests.

Indiana vote tracking

Live Indiana results from CNN, updated frequently, are HERE.

It's worth noting that Democratic voters turned out 3-1 in relation to Republican voters in Allen County. To paraphrase Michelle Obama, For the first time in my life, I'm proud of Allen County.


Q - How many voters were disenfranchised today in Indiana?

A - Nun

Obama "gets" the heartland

Hillary Clinton and John McCain are desperately attacking Barack Obama over the following comments made yesterday regarding our situation here in the heartland:

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Watch this CNN segment where Gloria Borger, Jack Cafferty, and Jeffrey Toobin all defended the comments: