Here Comes the Flood, Pt. 2

• I've always believed (and I could just be playing the sucker to his charm) that Mike Huckabee had his heart in the right place even if his head was nowhere to be seen. Here he is praising Obama's race speech, and saying that he thinks Jeremiah Wright has a damn good reason to be pissed at white people.
  
  
• Obama's been after Hillary about picking and choosing which of Bill Clinton's accomplishments she wants to take credit for for some time now, and it's finally going to sink in. More than anything, she wanted to wash her hands of NAFTA, but it turns out her documents from her time as First Lady show her repeatedly making the case for it. Her campaign's fact-check has David Gergen explaining how "unenthusiastic" she was about it, but to me that works about as well as her "I was against the Iraq war so I voted for it" argument. Regardless of her private feelings about it, she bit the bullet and made the argument for a decision she claims now that she knew then was wrong. That makes her more of a hypocrite, not less of one.
  
  
• DMX's thoughts on the Obama candidacy: "What the fuck?! That ain’t no fuckin’ name, yo. That ain’t that nigga’s name. You can’t be serious. Barack Obama. Get the fuck outta here." The road to racial healing is a long one, to be sure.
  
  
• Obama gets the support of the Flaming Lips.
  
  
• A very solid point about the double standard on religious zealotry. Barack Obama's pastor says "God damn America" and gets plastered all over cable news for weeks. The entire Republican Party is in bed with fundamentalist nutjobs who say every catastrophe is God's vengeance for not killing the gays and abortionists, and it's accepted practice.