Liberal Bloggers Accuse Obama of Trying to Win Election

A guest column by Andy Borowitz (In other words, shamelessly stolen) :

The liberal blogosphere was aflame today with new accusations that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) is trying to win the 2008 presidential election.

Suspicions about Sen. Obama's true motives have been building over the past few weeks, but not until today have the bloggers called him out for betraying the Democratic Party's losing tradition.

"Barack Obama seems to be making a very calculated attempt to win over 270 electoral votes," wrote liberal blogger Carol Foyler at LibDemWatch.com, a blog read by a half-dozen other liberal bloggers. "He must be stopped."

But those comments were not nearly as strident as those of Tracy Klugian, whose blog LoseOn.org has backed unsuccessful Democratic candidates since 2000.

"Increasingly, Barack Obama's message is becoming more accessible, appealing, and yes, potentially successful," he wrote. "Any Democrat who voted for Dukakis, Mondale or Kerry should regard this as a betrayal."

Liberal bloggers said that they would be watching Sen. Obama's vice-presidential selection process "very closely" for signs that he is plotting to win the election.

"Barack Obama still has a chance to pick someone disastrous as a sign that he wants to lose this thing," Ms. Foyler wrote. "If not, he should brace himself for some really mean blog posts."

Seriously, I've already lost a good blogger friend or two over Obama's general election strategy. Cut the guy some slack for running a winning campaign. . .you have to pick your fights.

Papparazi Moment

I was able to quickly snap this photo of Senator Clinton's plane as she left the Summit City this evening:

Dems capture Dennis Hastert's seat

Yes we DID!

Bill Foster successfully captured the Illinois 14th District seat held by former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert today. Foster had announced his candidacy for the seat last May. The flipping of Hastert's seat to the Democratic Party may well be taken as a sign of things to come this fall for Republicans in red or purple at best districts (IL-14 has a PVI of R+5.) It also serves as the first test case for how Obama's message and endorsement may trickle down to the congressional level in November. Granted, Illinois's demographics are shifting and Obama is the hometown senator, but this is a district that Bush won 55-44 in 2004 and Hastert won 60-40 in 2006.

Obama's ad for Foster:



Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who replaced Hastert after the Democratic Tsunami of 2006, commented: "I can appreciate the difficulty of removing Denny Hastert from his seat. It took a cadre of union carpenters to extract him from his office here on Capitol Hill. We had to replace all of the furniture as well; I've never seen so many broken springs and splintered beams. Denny never met a triple cheeseburger that he didn't like!"