Why does CNN love Obama?

Why does Clinton always start her speech a few minutes before Obama? She's done it time and time again. And all that happens is that she gets past her thank-yous and suddenly Barrack is on stage and CNN ALWAYS switch to him. Even when he's just thanking local workers. Why is that?

There are a number of possible reasons. CNN may have decided that Obama has this in the bag. This is unlikely - the Super Delegates might easily screw the voters - it's close enough for the establishment to blow it. It could be because they think that Obama is McCain's best chance - let's face it, CNN is a tad right wing. But that's unlikely too because every Republican hates he Clintons. So maybe it's just that he's much better TV. Her speeches are policy dirges - tired old ideas from the last decade. His sound like MLK and JFK combined. McCain sounds like a tired old uncle at the end of a party. He sounds like the future. It may be a vague future but it is inspiring in a way you could only get away with in America.

So, Obama has, it appears, won yet again in Wisconsin - you have to wonder where Clinton can go next. Dirty, you have to assume. She's already started. She has, to her credit, sent Bill to the side-lines (he sounds like a grumpy old man these days). But Obama has momentum, you can't see it being stopped by anything other than the democratic party. That isn't to say that the Republican can't destroy him as a crazy left-winger. They have a lot of time to paint him as way left of George McGovern. And if anyone doesn't know what that means, read Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 - the best American political book out there.

But for now, let's enjoy Obama's rhetoric, even if he has borrowed some of it from his friends...