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Slate’s Christopher Beam has it down to a 9.6-percent chance of Clinton getting the nomination.

And the rapper tells MTV why he switched.

I wonder who Eminem is backing this year …

Too bad Emina Bicakcic can’t vote for Barack Obama the way Casey Knowles can. But then again, it’s never too late for the Clinton people to try to seat the Bosnian delegates.

Brought to you by none other than the good folks at Slate.com.

The Clinton smear team was (need I say?) falsely claiming that Barack Obama had been a senior lecturer, not a professor, as he claimed, at the University of Chicago Law School.

Today, the school confirmed that:

From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track.

The other day, I was out walking in my neighborhood after work when I spied a bumper sticker on a sedan. What did it say?

“Hillary for president.”

I’ve seen lots of people claim that referring to Hillary Clinton by only her first name is sexist. We call John McCain “McCain” and Barack Obama “Obama,” right?

Well, there are a few complicating factors. For one thing, if we called Hillary “Clinton,” it would be ambiguous, because we’ve already had one major political leader called “Clinton,” so in most people’s mind, the moniker already belongs to Bill. (In fact, in the newspaper business, our convention is to refer to people by last name only after we’ve given their full names, and the only exception is when we’re referring to two people with the same last name, in which case we use their first name on subsequent reference.)

And, another thing, Hillary is tacitly sanctioning the first-name convention by putting it on her bumper stickers and campaign materials!

I’m all in favor of calling out discrimination when and where it exists, but in this instance, it just seems ridiculous. Even without all the factors I’ve just mentioned, nobody calls it sexist when we in California call Arnold Schwarzenegger by his first name, do they?

- Beth W.

Bloomberg-Obama meeting fuels endorsement speculation. From Huffington Post.

But I’ll certainly keep posting these fucking lies (misstatements? Spare me) from Hillary Clinton as they come, and they come rapidly these days:

Ha ha:

Funny stuff from Lee Camp at 23/6.

Clinton’s dragging of out of contest not hurting? Think again.
Clinton camp releases American Spectator column: Obama has a Jewish problem. Way to keep it fair and clean, Sleezery.
TN Governor joins the building chorus of those who say superdelegates shouldn’t overturn the will of the people.
Clinton’s former pastor derides use of Wright for political purposes.
And my favorite item of the day: Gravel switches to Libertarian Party.
Obama’s race speech helped alleviate damage from Wright.
MSM continues to lay it on Clinton for sleep-deprived, once-a-decade slip of the tongue lying.

* Thanks to TPM and DK for links.

CBS has this follow-up on the Tuzla whopper:

But now I’m wondering a) what She-Who-Should-Bow-Out says she did on the rest of the trip (negotiate with snake-eyed, horned minotaurs, I’m sure), and b) what really happened (spoke with the town’s leading capitalist about opening a Starbucks).*

*The above is conjecture, and is in no way reality-based. See Everything That Comes Out of Hillary Clinton’s Mouth These Days

From Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish blog, on Obama’s calling of a conference one year ago to address the then-bubbling foreclosure crisis.

She’s a whopper herself. A lie packed within a lifetime of untruths. I’ll let Andrew do what he does best.