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Dana Milbank: Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages. I write to you from the Verizon Center in downtown Washington, where I have just watched four elephants cast their votes for president. Results will come at the end of this chat, with teasers throughout.
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Cube City: Slate just started a Hillary Death Watch. Which is more likely -- that nobody on her staff will tell her about it, or that they'll tell her that Slate pins her chances of winning above 80 percent?
washingtonpost.com: The Hillary Deathwatch (Slate, March 27)
Dana Milbank:
As somebody who has been on Hillary Death Watch since early January -- I have now attended three primary night funerals for her -- I welcome our sister publication to the wake. Clinton is well aware that her political obituary is written and awaiting the 'send' button, but I think this only makes her more determined to remain in the race at least through the make-or-break Puerto Rico primary.
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Harrisburg, Pa.: Are elephants allowed to cross over for one day and be donkeys? I know that in some states they can.
Dana Milbank:
More about the elephants at Verizon center:
Ringling Bros circus is in town, accompanied by protesters from PETA. PETA, however, did not succeed at infiltrating the elephant balloting session held this morning for the benefit of the cameras.
The voters: Baby, Tonka, Luna and Asia, circus elephants all. Recruited by clowns wearing Clinton, Obama and McCain stickers, the elephants had to plant themselves in front of hay bales representing each of the the three candidates.
Baby went for Hillary, Tonka for McCain and Luna for Obama, leaving Asia, the lead elephant, as the tiebreaker.
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Vernon, B.C.: Hi Dana, loved your book, "Homo Politicus," especially the dedication -- very appropriate. A sure sign Bush is no longer important and is officially lame-duck -- CBS didn't preempt "Guiding Light" yesterday to show his same-old same-old speech. Yay!
Dana Milbank:
Good morning, British Columbia. I am delighted to know that Homo Politicus has crossed into Canada, an obvious benefit of Nafta. I now regret dedicating the book to Tom DeLay. He has not called to thank me, which is why proceeds are going instead to the Alberto Gonzales Legal Defense Fund.
Bush gave a speech yesterday?
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Birmingham, Ala.: Do you think those "rich-guy Clinton supporters" who sent that blackmail letter to Nancy Pelosi really thought things through? I thought it was an incredibly stupid thing to do.
washingtonpost.com: Clinton Backers Rebuke Pelosi for Stance on Superdelegates (Post, March 27)
Dana Milbank:
I actually think the Clinton campaign's claim that it didn't see the letter in advance could be true. The whole thing has reinforced a notion that Clinton is willing to bring down the Democratic Party with her -- in this case by defunding the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. But the donors must not have thought through the consequences -- that by antagonizing the DCCC they were antagonizing the very superdelegates Clinton needs.
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Minneapolis: How did Asia vote?!
Dana Milbank:
Thank you for asking.
Asia, after a great deal of hesitation, settled in front of a black cloth on the floor in an area stained by elephant poop. the clowns whisked away the cloth to reveal the smiling face of Stephen Colbert. The other elephants, following Asia's lead, abandoned Clinton, Obama and McCain. Asia picked up the Colbert poster with her trunk. One of the clowns then attempted to balance the Colbert poster on his chin, but ceased this activity when he realized he was getting the slime from the elephant's trunk on his face.
It was, in short, a neat metaphor for this campaign season.
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-- Dana Milbank
By washingtonpost.com |
March 28, 2008; 12:44 PM ET
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