Sweeps Week

Well, as forecasted, it looks like Obama's swept the primaries this week, finishing up with the Potomac primary last night where he crushed Clinton, and extended his delegate lead. At his acceptance speech Obama looked ahead, past the primaries and on to the general election, bringing the pain to the McCain camp:

"When I am the nominee, I will offer a clear choice. John McCain won’t be able to say that I ever supported this war in Iraq, because I opposed it from the beginning. Senator McCain said the other day that we might be mired for a hundred years in Iraq, which is reason enough to not give him four years in the White House.

"If we had chosen a different path, the right path, we could have finished the job in Afghanistan, and put more resources into the fight against bin Laden; and instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars in Baghdad, we could have put that money into our schools and hospitals, our road and bridges – and that’s what the American people need us to do right now.

"And I admired Senator McCain when he stood up and said that it offended his “conscience” to support the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy in a time of war; that he couldn’t support a tax cut where “so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate.” But somewhere along the road to the Republican nomination, the Straight Talk Express lost its wheels, because now he’s all for them.

"Well I’m not. We can’t keep spending money that we don’t have in a war that we shouldn’t have fought. We can’t keep mortgaging our children’s future on a mountain of debt. We can’t keep driving a wider and wider gap between the few who are rich and the rest who struggle to keep pace. It’s time to turn the page."

McCain's reply? Feeble:

"To encourage a country with only rhetoric rather than sound and proven ideas that trust in the strength and courage of free people is not a promise of hope. It is a platitude."

And what are these "sound and proven ideas" that you have Sen. McCain? I'll let Pat Buchanan paraphrase:

"The jobs are never coming back, the illegals are never going home, but we're going to have a lot more wars."

Now that's straight talk you can cry about.