The Sunshine Empire

Never would I ever have imagined that almost four months after Super Tuesday that we would have wall to wall coverage of the Puerto Rico primary, and that it would marginally matter. Ungrateful Clintonistas seem willing to destroy the party on their Ahab-like quest. We are in the 24th inning of this baseball game for the nomination but Puerto Rico did provide some insight as well.

CNN’s group of beleaguered warriors again stood watch over the galaxy of futuristic screens fuming with numbers and new age Presidential seals. The exit polling was fascinating. Apparently those that are in favor of Puerto Rico becoming a state went overwhelmingly for Senator Clinton and those against went for Barack Obama. Why Puerto Rico is allowed primaries when they have no ability to vote in the general election was never explained, but it did show that over 70% of those polled had some relative living in New York City. That may be some of the reason the island when so overwhelmingly for Senator Clinton, but at this point it doesn’t even matter.

The need to have coverage of the primary also necessitated Anderson Cooper devoting an entire segment to the new crazy preacher making the Fox News anti-Obama loop. Now I swore off speaking about Reverend Wright, but this new preacher is one of my Catholic brothers. First off even most conservatives will agree that Mrs. Clinton indeed did think she was entitled to the nomination and her closest political advisers, including Springfield Nuclear Power Plant owner Harold Ickes this morning have admitted as such. Even the The Sunshine Empire’s closest political adviser believes Clinton used the race card in many ways. So it seems that the priest’s worst transgressions was putting on a performance that had the choir on their feet and jumping.

The most curious of those who are jumping at this even are conservatives that are now pillorying Senator Obama for playing politics and resigning from the church. The same people that were demanding that if he really disagreed with the positions of the church he should resign, are now saying that it’s horrible that he has. I guess that gives the public the opinion these people have for their own political advice.

Now the political gauntlet will continue now that we are finally and mercifully on the verge of the general election. The 2008 campaign has become legendary, and we are really not even out of the second quarter.