• Anybody Seen Jeremiah?
  
  Barack Obama's controversial pastor has canceled the first speaking engagements that he had scheduled after the recent controversy:
  

  Wright was scheduled to speak at three services Sunday at Houston's Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. But the Rev. Marcus Cosby, the church's pastor, said Wright decided to cancel the appearances amid safety concerns.
  
  "He canceled for largely personal reasons," Cosby said, adding that recent uproar has led to threats against Wright, his family and his church -- the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

  
  I gotta wonder if those threats against Wright came from the Obama campaign. ;)



• Huckabee Makes Some Good Points
  
  For what it's worth, I thought that Mike Huckabee's recent remarks about Pastorgate were smart, thoughtful and ... well, downright Christian:

  
  The only thing I disagree with him about is his feeling that Obama has handled the scandal as well as anyone could. Not at all. Obama's constant refrain of "I didn't know about it" is hard to believe. Barack would do well to explain to the average American how he can both be a good potential President and a member of a group that cheers phrases like "God-damn America."




• Well, Her Last Name IS Clinton.
  
  At a recent event, Chelsea Clinton was asked if she believed that her mother's credibility was damaged by the way she responded to the Monica Lewinski scandal (remember the infamous "vast right wing conspiracy" remark?) With her response, Chelsea showed herself to be a true Clinton by, a, not answering the question ... and, b, behaving as though she'd taken the moral high-ground:

  I'll go out on a limb here and guess that Chelsea has been groomed to respond that way at the mention of the name "Lewinsky" since she started campaigning for her mother. It probably never crossed her mind to consider that the question itself was neither improper nor irrelevant. In fact, I doubt she heard anything other than the L-word.




• McCain Makes The Choice Clear.
  
  While the Clintons and Obamas try to recover from their latest missteps, John McCain is out there behaving like a President. I saw his speech on Iraq today and I thought that he presented the pro-surge argument as well as anyone could have. If nothing else, we'll certainly have some clear contrast between the two parties and their candidates this November.




• "Gimme A Call When I Can Rob You."
  
  Some people just aren't cut out for crime:
  

  At about 9 a.m. Monday, Ruben Zarate, 18 years old, allegedly went to a Mufflers for Less, and held up the place at gunpoint, insisting that the employees hand over the money. He was told, however, that there was no money in the store at the moment, as the manager was the only one with access to the safe, and he was not present.
  
  Furious, the thief reportedly left his cellphone number to the employees, and demanded that they contact him when the safe could be opened.

  
  Zarate came back and was greeted by the police, who ended up shooting him in the leg when he wouldn't drop his gun. He's currently in a hospital awaiting arraignment, recovering from his injury and saying "Doh!"




• Shut Up, Axl.
  
  Axl Rose has stated that the long delayed "new" Guns N' Roses album, Chinese Democracy, is finished and will be released this year. In case you don't know, Chinese Democracy has become synonymous with washed-up rock-star posturing. The album has been delayed for so long now that I don't think anyone believes that the album actually exists.
  
  The good folks at Dr. Pepper certainly don't believe it. They've challanged Axl to put up or shut up by promising to give a free can of Dr. Pepper to everyone in America (except for certain former G N' R members) if the album actually shows up in stores this year.
  
  I'll go one better than that: If an album named Chinese Democracy, credited to the band Guns N' Roses, is released this year, I will personally go to China, overthrow the communist government and establish democracy. I'll use my sword and magic helmet.

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