Today, ABC's George Stephanopoulos kept saying that Obama was somehow to blame for Hillary's assassination comments on Friday. Per Stephanopoulos' logic, the sin here wasn't Hillary invoking Obama's assassination as a reason to stay in the race. Oh no. The sin was that Obama's campaign said that Hillary's comments were "unfortunate." Unfortunate! The heathens! What kind of crass politics is Obama practicing, calling assassination talk "unfortunate." Has he no shame?
Stephanopoulos then went to say a real whopper (and one that was debunked a few weeks ago).
STEPHANOPOULOS: What is unusual this year is to have the presumptive nominee, the candidate who clearly has the most delegates, losing states by such a wide margin. In the last couple of weeks, 40-point loss in West Virginia, 35-point loss in Kentucky. A lot of Democrats look at that and say 'how can Barack Obama be losing these states so badly when he's going to be the nominee.' "In fact, Huckabee beat McCain by 44 points in the Kansas caucuses, 40 points in the Arkansas primary, and 21 points in the Iowa caucuses, and Romney beat McCain by 85 points in the Utah primary, 40 points in the Colorado caucuses, 38% in the Nevada caucuses, 31% in the Maine caucuses, and 19% in the Minnesota caucuses. So your point being? Yes, whatever will we do if Obama can't beat Hillary in two of the smallest states in the union. Add this to the list of things that apparently don't count - any Obama victories larger than West Virginia and Kentucky.
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