Morning Whiskey - 4/8/2008

1. Iraq Stories

• The Secret U.S. Iraq Plan - Lovely
  
• The U.S. media is a joke - a look at the top stories
• David Brooks on the surge
• Steve Coll, author of the best book on Afghanistan, "Ghost Wars", on military conflict in Iraq

2. Oregon numbers: Obama 52 Hillary 42
3. Pennsylvania numbers: Hillary 50 Obama 44 - Obama up 3 since last poll
4. How kids get their parents to vote Obama
5. The democratic race is in suspended animation with no way for Hillary to win it but no way for anyone to end it. My take is that Hillary is going to bow out after Pennsylvania.
6. Christopher Hitchens: Obama is no King
7. Michael Vick is playing all-time QB in prison pick-up football games and apparently putting up HUGE numbers.
8. Self inflicted errors are killing Hillary
9. Howard Fineman - What was Hillary thinking with Penn? She knew what he was and it was her decision.
10. What does it say about Hillary when her only defenders and promoters are right-wing or right-leaning pundits, analysts, columnists, and commentators on The Right? Morning Joe and Pat Buchanan OUTRAGED that people are telling Hillary to get out of the race.
11. NYTs: The math is tough for Hillary
12. Huffington: Mark Penn on his departure
13. Dick Morris says Penn is only the tip of the iceberg and goes on to mention Wolfson and others with ties to lobbyists/Columbia/free trade.
14. Obama is giving everyone a no drama option. I think this is the biggest draw that no one talks about. With Hillary, you have to find a tent to put over the circus. Obama doesn't have any of that riffraff/nonsense on his campaign.
15. Hydrogen powered plane flies in Spain
16. CBS, who sucks already, is trying to suck harder by outsourcing all reporting to CNN, who sucks the most.
17. John Kerry demolishes John McCain in an interview(with video). He uses flip-flop at least 5 times describing McCain.
18. Video on a printable solar panel from this company: Nanosolar.....private company not accepting investors.
19. Iran begins installing 6000 more centrifuges.....this means war. No, we are really going to bomb them to take out their program, and we will look foolish like Israel did after they battled Hezbollah to a draw a few years ago where Hezbollah just had fortified bunkers that Israel's munitions couldn't really damage. So will we really use the nuclear tipped bombs that Saudi Arabia said we would? John McCain money quote: "Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran"
20. Yemen is popping off too? Osama Bin Laden is from Yemen, and this country has a ungovernable hill country. Does every Muslim country have this type of region where bad guys can operate with impunity?