This week my Rotary Club has a ginormous book sale. How big? We'll sell about $20k worth at $2-$4/book. It's a lot of fun and it gives us a chance to let people know the other things that we're up to. I've been there a few times this week and have a shift later today (yay--get to work on my tan!).
The HB had a friend sleep over last night. He's a good kid, but says "What?" to almost anything you say. I can't decide if he doesn't hear well or is just being a jerk. He's very polite, which makes the latter unlikely. But, his dad's a pediatric surgeon, so you would think he'd have his hearing checked. Regardless, my wife is chasing the boys around today and I'll have the HB all day tomorrow.
The Lakers can close out San Antonio tonight at home. I have a good feeling about it.
I've been reading this morning about the democrats having their rules committee decide this weekend about the Michigan and Florida delegates. It will be a disconcerting exercise for fans of Ms. Clinton in that at least one of two things will happen:
1) She's not going to get enough delegates to put her past Obama. This is for certain.
2) Her attempt to get as many delegates as possible is going to maker her look craven and like someone who doesn't want to play by the rules she agreed to play by. She agreed, with the other candidates, not to campaign in Florida and that those votes would not count, but now she wants her share of the votes. Same in Michigan, except she was the only candidate to keep her name on the ballot when all of the other candidates agreed to go along with party rules and not compete there (she beat "uncommitted").
Her strategy is to close Obama's delegate lead and convince the remaining super-delegates that she got the most popular vote (and impossible argument given what happened in Michigan and Florida and that many caucus states don't add up votes like primary states do) and that she wins hypothetical elections in key states against McCain. Note that six months ago she would have won hypothetical primaries/caucuses in almost every state against Obama, but that's why we have campaigns.
One of Clinton's most admirable traits is her grit and determination. She needs to decide whether she wants to focus it on getting every delegate possible in her now seemingly quixotic quest for the nomination, or on unifying her party.
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