kill the monster - at any cost!

Obama 'possibly to claim victory', says the New York Times.

Senator Barack Obama has chosen to spend Tuesday night not in Kentucky or Oregon, the two states that will be holding their primaries that day, or even at his home in Chicago. Instead, Mr. Obama’s staff announced on Saturday, he will be returning to Iowa, where he won the Democratic caucuses way back in January and has at least two good reasons to revisit now.

Much more than nostalgia seems to have motivated that decision. If things continue to go as well for Mr. Obama this week as they have so far this month, with a romp in North Carolina, a strong showing in Indiana and daily growth in his support among party superdelegates, he could actually end up with enough pledged delegates to proclaim, without fear of contradiction, that he is now the Democratic nominee for president.

"Without fear of contradiction" is, of course, an in-your-face lie from yet one more media outlet that is committed to choosing our candidate for us - even if it means spending its own credibility.

Here is to hoping the Democratic party does not try to push this rule-bending and cherry-picking far enough to abandon even the pretense of legitimacy.

Crowning the chosen one early is a clear win for the Republican party. The elite has successfully split off one half of the party and used it to attack the other half.

The new organization Clinton Supporters Count Too doesn't have its own web page up yet. But there's a new message out through Katalusis:

Make calls to OR and KY. We will have another stunning victory in KY and close the gap in OR. We believe the opposition will announce that he has won the nomination on May 20th after the polls close. It will not be believable when Hillary is announcing a HUGE VICTORY IN KY.

Unfortunately, I have a sinking feeling that the media narrative is already set up to cover this. They know Obama is going to lose KY.

Also going on:

Just like our last puppet-in-chief, the press is giving Obama a free pass over his total ignorance and frequent gaffes:

What it says is that I’m not very well known in that part of the country. Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, not only because of her time in the White House with her husband, but also coming from a nearby state of Arkansas.

Devil in a pantsuit or the demonization of Hillary Clinton in the Chicago Tribune points out the difference between ordinary sexism vs. this particular (sinister) narrative:

This, though, is something different and more sinister, because it is not just a commentator's opinion about a person's fitness or unfitness for public office. It is not about using colorful, vivid language in order to wish that a person might or might not continue a campaign. It is an unprecedented public call—albeit metaphorically, but still violently and persistently—for a person's death.

In their landmark book of literary criticism "The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination" (1979), Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar were among the first to spotlight this noxious theme, this isolation and ridicule of powerful women by labeling them crazy, hysterical, perverse, monstrous. To challenge male domination—of the world, or just of oneself—was to be risk being marginalized, ostracized, locked away like Rochester's wife in "Jane Eyre" (1847), the fate that gave the book its title. In real life, behavior that strayed from the polite, demure norm expected of women in the 19th Century was rewarded with psychiatric evaluations and often, imprisonment and death.

(By the way, that book she mentions is a really, really great book.)

Hillary Clinton, speaking directly to bloggers (wow!), talks about the attacks launched against her.

Rick Montgomery in the Kansas City Star says working-class whites encompass about half of the electorate, depending on how you define working class - and white.

Eight in 10 of those working-class whites voted for Clinton over Obama. Only about half said they’d go for Obama over McCain in a general election.

Leon Panetta, who served as President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, told The Washington Times: “If that continues, there is no way the Democrats can win in November.”