Monday's comment from the papers in...
Today in Times Comment
- Tim Hames: Hillary as Lincoln? Barack as Lee?
- Melanie Reid: A world of hemp lingerie? No thanks
- William Rees-Mogg: Cricket: a good game is being ruined
- Tim Worstall: Working poor under fire - again
- Mark Henderson: Could we be hit by an asteroid?
- Sarah Vine: A cocktail fountain? My Lakeland cup runneth over
- Anatole Kaletsky: What's credit got to do with the price of rice?
And from the rest of the papers...
- Janet Daley: (The Telegraph) - Can Barack Obama survive his remarks?
- Tom Leonard: (The Telegraph) - Why do New Yorkers pay to be single dads?
- Jim White: (The Telegraph) - London's mayor? What does Simon Cowell say
- Madeleine Bunting: (The Guardian) - At last, Africa is starting to see a green revolution. Let's hope it's not too late
- Jackie Ashley: (The Guardian) - If the rebels prevail, Brown could be ousted in days
- Michael Tomasky: (The Guardian) - Obama cannot let the right cast him in that 60s show
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: (The Independent) - Londoners would be mad to vote for Boris
- Bruce Anderson: (The Independent) - Labour MPs thought that Brown was a lion. Now they are fearful that he is but a mouse
- Michael McCarthy: (The Independent) - Migration... 'one of earth's great wonders'
- Stephen Glover: (The Daily Mail) - I sympathise with bulimics but I'm deeply suspicious of Mr Prescott's lurid soul-baring
- Clive Crook: (The Financial Times) - Clinton’s last chance to stop Obama
And from around the world...
- Paul Krugman: (The New York Times) - Running out of planet to exploit
- Paula J. Dobriansky: (The Washington Post) - The way forward in Tibet
- Robert Novak: (The Washington Post) - What's the matter With Obama
- Thomas Frank: (The Wall Street Journal) - Obama's touch of class
- John S. Burnett: (International Herald Tribune) - Captain Kidd, human rights victim
- Annabel Crabb: (The Sydney Morning Herald) - They moved Kevin and Earth on the altar of cheesiness
Tim Hames on the race for the Democratic nomination. It is interesting that even though she has not lived there for years, Hillary grew up in Illinois, where Obama lives. It was of course Lincolns's state. Obama announced his Presidential candidacy on the spot in Springfield where Lincoln had.
I share the view of many observers that Hillary will win in Pennsylvania tomorrow but the margin of her victory may be narrow. Still, she will fight on, for which one of her prominent supporters has prepared the ground by declaring that since Obama has outspent her by a huge margin, any kind of victory will be important.
Should superdelegates decide the nomination? I think not: the fall-out from it will create an uncomfortable legacy.
Posted by: Candadai Tirumalai | 21 Apr 2008 14:22:48