Oliver Willis

Sen. Obama has raised a lot of money this month. I’d like to see Sen. Clinton’s numbers to compare.

The campaign of Barack Obama will report having raised at least $32 million in the month of January, a staggering amount for one month, campaign manager David Plouffe said this morning.

That included contributions from 170,000 new donors. That brings the campaign’s total number of contributors to 650,000, Plouffe said.

Plouffe said the money came in at a consistent pace throughout the month, but the campaign’s strongest day of fundraising came the day after the New Hampshire primary, which Obama narrowly lost to Hillary Clinton.

Taylor Marsh is all a-twitter over the media going nutty over the faux “snub” during the State Of The Union (the video looks the same as on the night of the speech, no matter how many times you slow-mo it or change the headline). Should Sen. Clinton be the nominee I expect these same people to be up in arms when the press examines the trivial minutiae of Sen. Clinton (like “the cackle”) without a hint of shame about the role they played in further legitimizing this line of nonsense.

I’m still trying to figure what the root cause of this is. Is it that progressive female bloggers see the candidacy of Sen. Obama as illegitimate because he’s a man? Or that because he’s black but not female he needs to sit down and wait his turn? More than a couple liberal bloggers sound just like Fox News when the target is Sen. Obama.

UPDATE: This picture verifies what Sen. Obama and Sen. McCaskill have been saying. I hope the anti-Obama bloggers feel very stupid and very ashamed.

For once let these usually wrong people be right. It would be like getting to run against crazy Rudy after all! Please, God, make this happen.

The New York Post, the right’s entertaining if always ideologically wrong broadsheet, has endorsed Sen. Obama. Isn’t this the kind of thing Sen. Clinton sought to curtail by wooing Rupert Murdoch? A Post endorsement isn’t worth much in a Democratic primary.

But it is weird.

Reminder: The Post endorsed Sen. Clinton for re-election in 2006.

In the Republican primary. The Republican primary. The hardline position on Immigration yet again fails to help the conservative wing of the party. Now, imagine how much this will hurt in the general? But please, Republicans, listen to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh for the cues on this issue. Remember, if you’re not bashing Hispanics, you’re wasting time!

Sen. Edwards is dropping out, and while I think there were serious issues with his campaign organization since day one, he did bring important issues into the race. I think the conventional wisdom that this somehow helps Sen. Clinton is a little screwy. Even without an endorsement of Sen. Obama - which could happen - Edwards voters would seem to me to be more inclined to go with Obama than Clinton to the tune of 60-70 percent of them. Edwards was not a fringe candidate and his percentage of the vote is enough to swing Super Tuesday one way or the other.

Rudy Giuliani got creamed and came in third place after predicting a win in Florida???

Clearly, this is good for Rudy Giuliani. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama should be worried.

After Tuesday, they both participated in beauty contests and won the same amount of delegates: 0.

The ODS-friendly pro-Clinton sites are echoing the mothership’s campaign spin (and right-wing style horsepuckey), but facts are stubborn things. Florida broke the rules, they lost their delegates. There’s no Clinton exception to the rules. If she wins, she has to play the same game as everyone else. Veruca Salt-style tantrums need not apply.

Barring a miracle, we’re likely going to have sideline tickets to the political funeral of one of the most odious figures in U.S. political history, Rudy Giuliani. Good riddance!