Hillary just won't quit.

Some insight from a superdelegate I spoke to Thursday:

It's not math anymore, it's psychodrama. If she can't have it, no one can have it. If she has to tear the party apart, she will.

Nancy Pelosi can't make her drop out. The Clintons think the speaker is for Obama anyway, her San Francisco district went for him 70% to 30%; they'll dismiss her. Chuck Schumer can't do it, he'd offend women in New York. Harry Reid can't do it, he'll offend women, period. If black political figures go to the Clintons and make a plea, they'll be dismissed as Obama partisans.

So who, I asked, can do it?

To be honest, though, I can't yet bring myself to believe that the Clintons are out of national politics for a time, that they've been defeated by their own party. It's almost too good to be true. Sure, it will take some work to defeat Hope Man, but there's nearly no chance now of electing a Bush or a Clinton - 20 years of the presidency in the hands of two families is enough, don't you think?

Thanks to Ace's headlines for the photoshop inspiration.

How bad is it for Hillary? This bad.

Iron Man is great. Go see it.

End of review.

Update - Wow. Kyle Smith found a review by someone who really, really needs to get a life.

My review?

Clever movie, but it would have been better if I actually cared whether the characters lived or died. And it could have used about 83% fewer uses of the word "dude."

The effects were good, though.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - What will it take for a Democratic presidential candidate to win the support of California superdelegate Steven Ybarra?

Say, $20 million.

The Democratic National Committee member doesn't parse his words when it comes to what he wants from Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton - an ironclad promise to spend that heady amount to register Mexican-American voters and get them to the polls in November.

In a telephone interview Wednesday, he said he plans to remain undecided in the tight contest until "someone shows me the money."

In both states, nearly a quarter of Republicans voted against the man who is the nominee. I wonder why? Okay, that may not be the only reason, but it certainly doesn't help all that much. Is McCain so enamored of his Maverick™ image that he's willing to alienate segments of the GOP base? The evidence is not promising - the harshest rhetoric he's used lately was not against Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama - it was against the North Carolina GOP, which ran an ad he didn't like.

It's clear that McCain has yet to internalize a simple truth - many of us didn't want him as our nominee, and we're not all that thrilled with him on top of the ticket. My vote in November will not be for John McCain - it will be against Barack Obama. This is a 'lesser of two evils' election for me. McCain seems to think that his Maverick™ image is attractive, but he's mistaken. Our tolerance and begrudging acceptance of his candidacy should not be mistaken for enthusiasm.

McCain will get my vote, but there's no way I'm giving him my money. After all, he didn't think it was a good idea for me to keep more of what I earned, so why should I bother? And blogging on his behalf? No thanks. Don't blame me, Maverick™ - you made the bed.

The Ron Paul campaign is not over, but it's losing to campaigns that ended weeks ago.

rEVOLution!

You've been warned.

I guess.

Allah lays it out.

In fact, as of this moment, even if Florida and Michigan are counted RCP gives her a popular vote lead of just 3,000+ votes — a margin of less than one-tenth of one percent. And that’s assuming that the popular vote totals from the caucuses in Iowa, Washington, Maine, and Nevada (which weren’t reported) aren’t counted at all. If you estimate for those states, he ends up with a lead of more than 100,000.

Just for the heck of it...created this one earlier.

This is probably old, but still pretty cool.

Here's what she said.

Clinton's attacks on oil prices as artificially inflated, Enron-style, keep escalating, and today she appeared to threaten to break up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

"We’re going to go right at OPEC," she said. "They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in some conference room in some plush place in the world, they decide how much oil they’re going to produce and what price they’re going to put it at," she told a crowd at a firehouse in Merrillville, IN.

"That’s not a market. That’s a monopoly," she said, saying she'd use anti-trust law and the World Trade Organization to take on OPEC.

Russia's use of heavy weapons at this week's World War II commemoration parades is not intended as a threat to any nation, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

"For the first time in many years heavy military equipment will be used. This is not sabre-rattling. We are not threatening anyone and don't plan to," Putin said ahead of the traditional Victory Day parade on Friday.

"This is a demonstration of our growing defence capability.... We are capable of defending our people, citizens, our state, our wealth, which is not small," he said.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Operating outside public view, the House Democratic majority is taking extraordinary steps to maintain spending as usual while awaiting a Democrat as president. Remarkably, the supine House Republican minority hardly resists and even collaborates with its supposed adversaries.

There has been little or no public Republican protest over seizure of the appropriating process by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her clique. For the second straight year, no appropriations bill other than defense is scheduled for passage. Instead, spending details are crafted in the Speaker's Office, negating President George W. Bush's veto strategy. In a little-noticed maneuver April 23, Pelosi won passage of a bill preventing Medicaid billions from being saved through Bush administration regulations. Despite the GOP leadership's nominal opposition, House Republicans voted for higher spending by two to one.

Weddings are fun, but quite the logistical nightmare.

I'll write more later...if I make it out alive.

Oops - There was a nice comment on this post, and in a flurry of span-erasing, I accidentally deleted it. Thanks for the comment - sorry about that.

AUGUSTA - Business interests meeting today are expected to go ahead with a referendum challenge to a new funding mechanism for Maine's Dirigo Health program.

"I don't think there's any question they're going to do it," said Maine State Chamber of Commerce President Dana Connors.

Now, where do I sign?

There's no other explanation.

(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama said he is "outraged" by comments his former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, made Monday at the National Press Club and is "saddened by the spectacle."

"I have been a member of Trinity Church since 1992. I have known Rev. Wright for almost 20 years," he said at a news conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. "The person I saw yesterday is not the person I met 20 years ago."

Obama said he is outraged by Wright's remarks that seemed to suggest the U.S. government might be responsible for the spread of AIDS in the black community and his equation of some American wartime efforts with terrorism.

Does Obama really expect people to believe that Wright has grown more radical in the past two days than he's ever been in the previous two decades? Heck...has Wright grown more radical now than when Obama said he could "no more disown him than I can disown the black community" or "my own grandmother?"

I've read Wright's speech to the NAACP and the transcript of his appearance before the National Press Club. I've heard audio and seen visual from the speeches. In both, Wright comes across as an angry, bitter and unpleasant man who displays little of the grace one should expect from a pastor who claims to communicate God's truth.

Obama's press conference was an attempt at sleight of hand, but he's a poor illusionist.