The Friday Political Thread: Race for the Presidency Edition

David Weigel | March 21, 2008

Unconvincing Quote of the Week
"I didn’t do this to make him like a scary black man." - Lee Habeeb, editor of a video that makes Barack Obama look like a scary black man.

The Week in Brief
- Barack Obama told you to stop being such a racist.
- Hillary begged Michigan and Florida to give her her ill-gotten delegates.
- Liberals gathered at Take Back America.
- Lawrence Lessig launched his Change Congress crusade.
- John McCain toured Europe and the Middle East, gaffe'n all the way.

Below the Fold
- A MyDD blogger does a hell of a lot of homework on Pennsylvania demographics.
- Michael Dobbs sifts through the piles of bullshit that make up Hillary Clinton's Bosnia story.
- Charles Murray revises and extends his positive take on Obama's big speech.
- Spencer Ackerman settles scores with two Iraq War journo-hawks.
- Gregory Scoblete sees National Greatness Conservatism slithering back.

I head to the parallel universes of Japan and electronic music for this week's Politics 'n' Prog: Yellow Magic Orchestra, dai ski des!