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Hillary Clinton gave a key speech on Saturday officially suspending her campaign and endorsing Obama as the nominee. It came as a bit of a surprise to me given her team's seeming insistence on dragging the process out to the very end, but nothing in politics is ever certain until it's sealed and delivered. and no contest is ever personal unless it's personal. Or perhaps she took my advice and realized that, while the Clinton legacy has already been damaged, it will be seriously trashed if Obama loses to McCain in the fall.
With that done, I can't see more than a few internet dead-enders still holding out in the jungle, and the internet, for all it's virtues, is not always a representative sample (see Paul, Ron).
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Also noteworthy was ex-Republican congressman Bob Barr receiving the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party, meaning both sizable third parties will be running major-party evacuees who were representatives from Georgia.
Barr may receive enough $upport to be interesting, but he shouldn't let the over-representation of glibertarians on the internet give him unrealistic expectations for his potential impact (see Paul, Ron).
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Ouch.
That has to be among the most dominant major tournaments any single player has ever had. Nadal on clay is just toying with everyone. Meanwhile, the window for Federer to complete the career Slam is closing quickly; his overall game looks to be entering the decline phase, and Nadal continues his dominance in Paris unabated.
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Robert McChesney's Free Press organization has posted tons of audio from its annual National Conference for Media Reform this past weekend.
Here's a video of Bill Moyers' stirring address at that convention (sadly, the audio and video appear to be out of sync.)
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