careful what you wish for

Some people are their own worst enemies. Marc Ambinder:

A paradox: when Wright’s sermons first saw the bandwith of air on ABC News and elsewhere, Obama allies and Wright supporters begged reporters to broadcast and publish the full sermons and to provide relevant context. Well, now the cable networks are content to let Wright talk for as long as he desires; CNN seemed to jettison their entire schedule last night in order to broadcast Wright’s entire speech to the NAACP. Everyone wanted Wright’s full context: now they have him.

Obama should have cut Wright loose a long time ago, as I’ve said before. I didn’t think Wright would go so far as to try to torpedo Obama’s candidacy, but that’s what I think he’s trying to do.

a pig for Obama

No, no, no—not the greedy, attention-craving, candidate-destroying one that everyone else is talking about.

This one:

Roger Waters brought Coachella to a close with an epic two-set performance that included playing all of “Dark Side of the Moon” and unleashing a giant inflated pig into the night sky. …

Waters’ biggest prop was an inflatable pig the size of a school bus that emerged while he played a version of “Pigs” from 1977’s capitalism critique, “Animals.”

The pig, which was led above the crowd from lines held on the ground, displayed the words “Don’t be led to the slaughter” and a cartoon of Uncle Sam wielding two bloody cleavers. The other side read “Fear builds walls.”

The underside of the pig simply read “Obama” with a checked ballot box alongside.

Ya know, I think I’ll pass on voting for Obama—if the opportunity arises, that is. But it’s looking less and less likely.