Sunday Confusion

I’ve been trying to make sense of The New York Times’s endorsement of Hillary Clinon ever since they announced it on Friday. While they wrote “The Times’s editorial board strongly recommends that they select Hillary Clinton as their nominee for the 2008 presidential election,” hardly any of their editorials ever seem to echo that same sentiment. Take today, for example. Four of the top ten most emailed articles are op-eds(one, two, three, four) and they’re all either pro Obama, anti Clinton, or both. Maureen Dowd has been consistently anti-Clinton/pro-Obama, as have Brooks and Herbert. In fact, the only outspoken, die-hard Hillary supporter has been Gail Collins, who also happens to be editor of the editorial page. Whatever the reasons behind their endorsement, it means nothing. What does matter is that John F. Kennedy’s daughter and brother both overwhelmingly support Obama, and that he destroyed Hillary yesterday in South Carolina. That’s real talk.