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Posted at 9:35am on May 5, 2008 Michelle Obama says Barack is angry, frustrated.

*Really.* Do tell.

By Moe Lane

And so we greet a lovely Monday morning in the Spring of Pain.

Michelle Obama: Barack has hit boiling point

Michelle Obama lifted the lid on the irritation felt by the leading Democrat candidate for the White House at the way anti-American outbursts by his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, have dogged his campaign.

He is said to be itching to turn all his fire on John McCain, the Republican candidate, who is benefiting most from Mr Obama's protracted tussle with Hillary Clinton.

Mrs Obama told a rally in Durham, North Carolina, on Friday that only her husband's desire to change US politics had helped him to control his feelings: "Barack is always thinking three steps ahead – what do we need to do to make change."

Her husband was thinking "I can't let my ego, my anger, my frustration get in the way of the ultimate goal," she said.

Permit me to quote from Bob Heinlein's - a writer who I am morally certain that Michelle Obama would never read voluntarily - quite good and habitually misunderstood Starship Troopers:

I may have given the impression that boot camp was made harder than necessary. This is incorrect.

It was made as hard as possible and on purpose.

Read on.

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Posted at 11:25am on Apr. 26, 2008 One month in to the Spring of Pain.

...and they're tired.

By Moe Lane

Oh, so terribly, terribly tired.

Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are undeniably exhausted. They've been campaigning hard for more than a year, and their wall-to-wall schedules won't let up anytime soon. Neither wants to cede ground in their epic struggle for the Democratic nomination.

Fatigue, however, breeds unforced errors — and both candidates have made some in the past few weeks.

He turned in a weak debate performance in Pennsylvania, took heat for saying residents of small-town America were bitter and inadvertently praised Republican John McCain. She, too, had a sub-par debate and mistakenly claimed to have landed under sniper fire in Bosnia as first lady.

(H/T: NRO's Media Blog)

15 months of 20 hour days. Another month-plus of the same. All of which is mere preface to the real struggle, but that's a different political season entirely. Besides, all those people who confidently told us that it'd be all over in March are now confidently telling us that it'll be all over in June, so clearly things can't get worse for the Democrats.

Read on.

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Posted at 9:40am on Mar. 5, 2008 VRWC Briefing, 03/05/2008.

By Moe Lane

Transmitted 03/03/2008.

Good job on Ohio, everyone! We're still calibrating the Texas results to ensure the maximum amount of confusion and heartbreak all around, but the centerpiece of last night went off without a hitch, and we should all take this moment to compliment our Freemason division for making sure that Ohio's results reflected our collective Will. We should also note the less less-flashy (but no less valuable) machinations of our Opus Dei division in securing Rhode Island; you guys always come through for us when we need you, and you don't get enough praise for that. Great work.

And let us again offer our sympathies for everybody who argued so passionately for flipping Vermont. Now that it's over, we can say this: we really wanted to, guys. We were pretty sure that we'd get at least three pundit aneurysms on national TV out of it. But we had to go with not being too obvious in our scheming. We're genuinely sorry, and we've decided to make it up to all of you by offering a lottery this election cycle: you folks vote on which state will be the Election Night Surprise, and we'll incorporate the winner somehow. Just don't make it California or Texas, OK? - Just kidding; pick whichever one you like.

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Posted at 2:47am on Mar. 5, 2008 Good evening, Democrats. Welcome to the Spring of Pain.

And no, you will not be enjoying it. At all.

By Moe Lane

So, you're asking yourself right now, How bad can it be, really? Yes, she won Rhode Island. Yes, she won Ohio by a lot. Yes, at this stage of the game she's on track to win at least the primary in Texas, but there's still the caucus, which he'll probably win, and there's all those lawsuits pending, and there are more races, and hasn't everyone been telling us that she'll never be the nominee anyway?

So it's not that bad, right? We wanted something like this, right?

Yes, it's that bad. No, you really didn't want this. Yes, the next six weeks are going to be exquisitely depressing for you.

Read on. Or don't. You pretty much stopped being relevant to this race when Hillary Clinton won Ohio.

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