Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Clinton campaign death watch (contd)

Did you catch this? From last week, when Hillary Clinton won smashingly in West Virginia (though it also applies to this week, when she will win smashingly (most likely) in Kentucky):

"If a tree falls in the forest when everybody expects it to fall, does it make a sound? es, says Hillary Clinton. It makes a deafening roar, says Hillary Clinton. SHE WON THE WEST VIRGINIA PRIMARY BY A KAZILLION PERCENTAGE POINTS TUESDAY NIGHT, AND THAT, SHE SAYS, HAS TO MEAN SOMETHING! Except the press doesn’t think so. The press is unimpressed. This may be the first time in election history in which the press has withdrawn from a race before the candidate."

A great line, that. And that press withdrawal will be even more pronounced after Obama's likely win in Oregon tonight, one suspects.