The Cold War and the Titanic

The Times: Reports that the finding of the RMS Titanic was really a cover story for the US Navy, as they wanted to know what had happened to two of their Nuclear Subs. What a story and its true, Dr Ballard has confirmed the story only after the secret classification was removed, this story would make one hell of a movie. The Cold War, Nuclear Subs, fear that that one has been sunk by the USSR, ending of the Cold War and the truth about the Sub and the Titanic.

West Wing Fact and Fiction

I was watching the last season of the West Wing on Saturday, as since we have almost a match on the Democratic and Republic when it comes to the 08 Presidential Race, lets see if fiction matches reality. In the world of the West Wing, Congressman Santos of Mexican - American descent and in the real world Senator Obama of African - American descent, both ethnic candidates, on the Republican side, Senator Vinick a Republican Maverick in the real world, Senator McCain also a Republican Maverick. In the first episode " The Ticket " Santos is down 9 points to Vinick. In the West Wing world, the Republicans have their convention first followed by the Democrats. In our real world, the Democrats go first followed by the Republicans. Lets see what the first Gallup poll has the race after the conventions. CALL TO ALL WEST WING FANS, KEEP AN EYE OUR FOR ANY OTHER EXAMPLES THAT HAVE FICTION AND REALITY MATCH. The first one is of course McCain wanted a guess worker programme, Vinick also, McCain has a problem with the Conservative base, so does Vinick, and that's from the first three episodes.

Hello Cleo !!

Fox News: Reports that Tomb of Cleopatra has been found, this find would match the discovery of King Tut. Lets hope its true and that the Tomb has not be robbed in the past.

Bill Clinton on Hillary 08

CNN: Reports that Bill Clinton still thinks Hillary can win the nomination. The theory being that if she can win big in the up coming states the Super Delegates will give her the nomination. A majority of these Super Delegates are politicians in their own right, they are not going to lose the African - American vote to help Hillary Clinton. One thinks of the Clinton Campaign as a nightmare that you have just woken from, but you are still in the dream, when it will end!!

NYT and Clinton and Obama

New York Times: Interesting article on the RFK comment and how it was treated by the Media through the day. One thing that really struck VIEWS and mentioned in the article is in this day and age you need a good broadband connection, if you report or blog on politics.

NYT on Hillary

New York Times: Ms Dowd is right on the money, she writes the following on Hillary, " Obama now has the perfect excuse not to pick Hillary as his running mate. She has been too unseemly in her desire to be on the scene if he trips, or gets hit with a devastating story. .." But as noted in previous post, if Hillary has the majority of the popular vote and Bill uses his magic to get the super delegates to give her the VP spot, Obama might be stuck with her, the only way not to have her is to put his foot down and pick someone that helps him and force the Convention to follow his lead, that is called leadership.

What Next ?

The Washington Post: Reports that the Clinton Campaign main aim is to get the popular vote majority over Obama, the Post states the following on Clinton, " aggressively campaigning in the final three contests of the primary season in the hope of seizing a victory in the overall popular vote..." The question that has to be asked is why, Reagan in 1976 had the popular vote over Ford but still lost, Craig Shirley points out in his excellent book on the 1976 Campaign that Reagan would have taken the VP spot if Ford had offered it to him, is Clinton forcing the Obama Camp to offer her the VP spot, if not to help with Campaign debts, make her Secretary of State, the Supreme Court, or a combination of the above. VIEWS thinks that she is after the VP spot, Obama is going to have a hard time is saying NO. The first African - American Nominee and the second woman VP Nominee would be a hard slog with the voters, also the Clintons have a lot of baggage.