Leading Off
1. Best line from Barack Obama’s Reunion Arena rally: “A little, skinny kid with big ears and a name that rhymes with yo mama, you better believe he knows a thing or two about fighting.” The speaker? Ron Kirk.
2. To paraphrase Jay-Z, by way of Kanye West: “Huckabee, that’s if you’re still living, get on down.” “It ain’t over until Texas says it’s over,” the man running a distant second to John McCain said yesterday in Plano. “If we win Texas, it all changes.” Spoiler alert: it won’t.
3. Oh, and Chelsea Clinton was in the area, too. “I’m convinced my mom will be the stronger candidate,” she told a crowd at UTD. Well, jeez, if she’s convinced…
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“Somebody forgot to tell you that this election is over … they forgot to tell me it’s over, too,” said Huckabee.
Um, no. Everybody has been telling you that for two weeks now but you can’t hear it because your ears are plugged up with big clods of hubris.