It was no surprise to anyone that Senator Hillary Clinton won the West Virginia primary this evening. Nope, the surprise came in the form of a quote from Clinton loyalist James Carville.

“I think it’s likely Obama is the nominee, but not certain,” said Carville, the Democratic strategist who worked for Clinton in the 1992 campaign and is close to the couple. “I would have preferred another result, but I’m going to be for him.”

“Everybody is going to be with Obama,” he added, referring to Clinton staff and supporters. “I have an undated check written out for Obama. I’ll send it when this is over.”

I’m sure Obama will appreciate all that support from the Clinton camp.

No, seriously! I read the headline and it totally cracked me up. I’m still laughing!

The actual story is even better…if that’s possible.

Here’s a call emergency crews don’t get every day:

There’s a naked man in a tree!

It happened Tuesday near Los Angeles.

Firefighters responded to reports of a man on a nude rampage.

The man crawled from limb to limb for over an hour, refusing to climb down.

He finally lost his grip and fell onto an air mattress placed under the tree by firefighters.

No official word on why he was in the tree.

Witness say he appeared to be on drugs.

Drugs were involved? No!?! How unexpected. No “official word” on why he was in the tree?Hahahahaha!

Oh, don’t mind my deranged laughter. This is what happens when I have a few hours to kill and I’m completely sick of politics.

It’s not easy being green, but it is newsworthy.

And adorable!

This little fella was born in New Orleans recently to a Golden Retriever mom. Hopefully mom wasn’t too disappointed with green offspring. Wasabi is his name, how clever is that?

Experts say that green color comes from amniotic fluid mixing with his light color fur. The shocking shade should fade to a normal tan in a few weeks.

There are no health concerns, it’s just one of those rare stories with no dark overtones.

Dear John McCain advisors,

We Americans are just now starting to recover from the Obama-Clinton battle. We’ve all been through a lot, we’ve had to suffer through many contrived indignities and, frankly, we’re very tired. More than anything we’re tired of the feigned outrage. Overreacting to what may (or may not) have been an attack on your candidate’s age will do you no favors with those of us who have little tolerance left for such shenanigans.

What’s next? Getting weepy at campaign stops?

Please, rethink playing the victim card.

“I won’t accept a cabinet post regardless of which of the three candidates wins the presidency,“ Al Gore said yesterday.

Al makes $100,000 for an hour’s work, people! What makes you think that he wants your lousy civil service job?

2nd link via Fausta.

Hillary is out and she knows it. Clinton’s request of $2.3 billion in earmarks for New York in 2009 is her way of making certain her senate seat is secure. In the next few weeks we’ll see her start retooling her image for a 2012 run for president.

What? You didn’t think she’d just go away after this, did you? Honey, she’s a Clinton, they never go away.

Hat tip: Conservative Belle

…or, if you’re a man, the most terrifying.

Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital.

Lynchings, penis theft and panic?! I do believe tourism will be sharply down for Spring.

From the Clinton camp via the Washington Post:

Clinton faces an almost insurmountable hurdle. Going into Pennsylvania, Obama had 1,415 pledged delegates to Clinton’s 1,251, according to the Associated Press. She led among superdelegates, 258 to 233, but that margin has been shrinking steadily over the past two months. Her victory may prevent a wholesale shift to Obama in the next few weeks, but her task remains daunting.

Obama’s team expects to recoup any loss of delegates in Pennsylvania with the results in North Carolina and Indiana. After those, six contests will remain, and the chances of Clinton’s winning enough of the remaining delegates to overtake Obama appears out of the question. Even her hope of taking a lead in the popular vote appears out of reach, given that Michigan and Florida will not be counted in the calculations because they violated Democratic Party rules in holding their primaries early.

“We don’t think this is just going to be about some numerical metric,” Garin said. “When we get to those days after June 3rd, we think the real choice is who’s proven themselves to be the best candidate.”

That leaves the senator from New York with few options other than to keep winning as many of the remaining contests as possible, then pleading with superdelegates to set aside the numerical indicators of who leads and consider who would make the stronger nominee against Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee.

Some “numerical metric”? Set aside the “numerical indicators” of who leads? Why I do believe that he’s referring to those pesky votes!

Does Geoff Garin (Clinton’s co-chief strategist) mean to say that Hillary Clinton intends to ask the superdelegates to ignore the the VOTES? Ignore the will of the people?! Why yes, yes she does. Because that’s the ONLY way she can win at this point!

Silly voters, it’s not about what YOU want…unless you happen to be a superdelegate.

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Just for fun, here’s video of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton introducing the Count Every Vote Act in March of 2007.

Hm, I guess every vote should be counted but she’s only interested in the results if they’re in her favor.

~ AND THIS ~

Secret of Hillary’s Success: Obama leads in pledged delegates per the NBC hard count (1482 to 1326) hard count (1482 to 1326), overall delegates (1720 to 1588), the popular vote (14,447,568 to 13,964,439), and total number of contests won (29 to 15). Note: We’re not including Texas in this last total, given that Clinton won the primary but Obama won the caucus and netted the most delegates. That new popular vote total (not counting FL or MI) has Obama leading Clinton, 49%-47%. For those keeping score, that’s a difference of 483,129. Projecting the rest out…

So those remaining contests, per this conservative projection, bring Obama’s popular vote lead to 515,629. If you add Florida, that gives Clinton almost another 300,000 more. So you if you include the Sunshine State, Obama will still lead her by about 215,000 popular votes. No wonder Clinton herself decided to start talking about Michigan again, because she can’t “win” the popular vote without it. The problem: Even many Clinton supporters believe it’s not a valid measurement.

I’m over the Democrats slinging mud on each other, how about you? Oh yeah, we Republicans are supposed to be enjoying all of this. Not so much.

No matter which of these…worthy candidates…win in November, we’re going to have to support them. Hard to do while they’re covered in all that…crap.

So much for my stream of consciousness editorial.

Seriously, read The Low Road to Victory from The New York Times.

The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.

Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.

Clicky, clicky to read more.

Here for the comments on the editorial. As usual the comments are better than the original post.

UPDATED to clarify: When I referred to the “worthy candidate” that we’ll ultimately have to support as president, I was referring to Clinton, Obama AND McCain. Although I do believe that we’ll be looking at a Democratic sweep this election year, (I think they’ll take the House, Senate and White House), it is possible that the Democratic presidential nominee will screw up enough that McCain will walk away with the job.

Obviously Hillary’s deep faith and weapons training would give her great comfort while under sniper fire.

UPDATED to remind you about the CNN “Compassion Forum” at 8PM this evening:

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama face the hard questions on faith and politics. Join Campbell Brown for a 2-hour CNN special event.

It’s been a while since we’ve seen these candidates face off with one another. I imagine the gloves may be off this time around and well worth our time…that is if you’re into that sort of thing, which sadly I am. I need to get a real life.