Hillary Clinton, You Leap on the Back of the Wind!

David Weigel | June 18, 2007

Instant blog post. Step one:

Belatedly note the launch of this video, in which Hillary Clinton's campaign stormtroopers turn the dials on Maya Angelou's cryo-pod from "Freeze" to "Thaw," and the poetess issues her soaring, rambling endorsement of the Democratic frontrunner.

Step two:

Link to David Alan Grier's impression of Angelou.

Is Barack Obama devious enough to pay Grier his per diem—which at this point has to be in the tens of dollars—and create an Angelou response video? Is Edwards? Is Gravel? Well, Gravel probably is, but who knows if he'd give the comedian a script?