At least, at long last, we have news that Lewis and Obama haven't even spoken recently.

But more to the point - what Lewis said rather clearly is that he does not want to go agaisnt the overwhelming wishes of his district. And that, within the context of him being a superdelegate and a highly likely situation whereby Obama is going to have the lead in pledged delegates - i.e. he does not want, as a superdelegate, to be responsible for taking the nomination away from the candidate who won it through the actual voting.

"he planned to cast his vote as a superdelegate for Senator Barack Obama in hopes of preventing a fight at the Democratic convention."

"he could "never, ever do anything to reverse the action" of the voters of his district, who overwhelmingly supported Mr. Obama."

From a Mother Jones article.

MJ.com: What else sets [Tom Delay] apart?

LD: Hardness. He's not afraid to use his power and he uses it ruthlessly. If a member of his own House caucus disagrees with him and won't vote the way he wants them to vote, he'll go out and find a primary opponent to run against them, and he'll tell them -- or he'll let it be known -- that he's going to "primary" them. He has threatened to take people's chairs away from them. He uses power to the point of abusing it.

I've seen some terrible comments at blogs that aren't so closely monitored:  Ezra Klein has had a death-threat on one of his comment threads since 2:12 yesterday (see Changing the Rules at 2:12pm) that makes me sick.

I know it must be exhausting -- but here's one reader who really appreciates the effort.

You need to

by echinopsia on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 11:36:59 PM EST

Read this

["Though it is increasingly unlikely, Clinton may still have a path to the nomination -- and what a path it is. She merely has to puncture the balloon of Democratic idealism; sully the character of a good man; feed racial tensions within her party; then eke out a win with the support of unelected superdelegates, thwarting the hopes of millions of new voters who would see an inspiring young man defeated by backroom arm-twisting and arcane party rules.

Unlikely -- but it would be a fitting contribution to the Clinton legacy of monumental selfishness."]

The Post quotes Lewis spokesperson saying Times story is "inaccurate."

But the Clinton campaign reported having no word from Lewis on the subject, and a spokeswoman for Lewis, Brenda Jones, said the Times story and a similar one by the Associated Press, saying he was contemplating such a switch, were inaccurate. Both the Times and AP stories quoted Lewis directly after speaking with him; he was not available for comment later Thursday. The Obama campaign also said that Lewis and Obama had not talked recently about a change of heart.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0215/p01s04-usec.html

Used to remember all of the cotton mills and factories that used the thread it spun around here. Pay wasn't as much as up North, but families had a decent living.

They're all about gone now, exported to countries abroad.

The last mill that remained opened, the city tried to keep it afloat, but the owners couldn't afford, too. 400 jobs lost at the plant (no telling how many overall were lost, since it doesn't count the accountants; truckers and other help a plant needs).

We can't live well in a service economy, it doesn't pay a living wage.

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/14/what-should-dems-do-about-michigan-florida-delegates/

This reminds me of the same press, so worried that they'll be denied access to Bush, they didn't bother to do their job -- but tout his line.

President Daniel Ortega, who led the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua, says Barack Obama's presidential bid is a "revolutionary" phenomenon in the United States.

"It's not to say that there is already a revolution under way in the U.S. ... but yes, they are laying the foundations for a revolutionary change," the Sandinista leader said Wednesday night as he accepted an honorary doctorate from an engineering university.

Ortega led a Soviet-backed government that battled U.S.-supported Contra rebels before he lost power in a 1990 election. He returned to office last year via the ballot box.

In statements broadcast on Sandinista Radio La Primerisima, Ortega said he has "faith in God and in the North American people, and above all in the youth, that the moment of great change in the U.S. will come and it will act differently, with justice and equality toward all nations."  

Hillary will win OH and TX
if Hill wins OH and TX "it will be the biggest comeback in political history"
Therefore, March 4th will witness the biggest comeback in political history.

Question is, will you and the media buy the spin?
...

WaPo has something, too, but I can't find the link and I'm too lazy to go look.

My niece sent $25 to Clinton today, and she promised me she would get ten more of her friends to do the same.  The funny thing is, her brother the lazy college drop out who lives in a trailer did the same thing--unasked.  

"Hillary Rodham Clinton's latest Wisconsin campaign schedule doesn't sound like the battle plan of a candidate who is conceding the state, as some have suggested.  Unofficially, her schedule after Saturday's party dinner (mostly town hall-style events, we're told) looks like this:

"Sunday: Milwaukee, Green Bay, Madison.
Monday: Eau Claire, Wausau, Oshkosh, Milwaukee.
Tuesday morning: Racine."

In addition to Wisconsin, Texas and Ohio are the two major upcoming battlegrounds. And in the Lone Star state on Friday, former President Bill Clinton reemerged as an attack-dog, saying that while Obama "excites" voters, his health care plan "would in fact deny us universal health-care coverage." The Obama campaign responded by calling the line a "false accusation", the kind "that failed his wife's campaign in South Carolina."