Keith Olbermann is officially my hero

...and if you saw The Soup tonight, you know why. If you missed it, I'll try to get the clip posted as soon as it shows up on YouTube.

In other news, expect to be inundated with news stories about the Wisconsin delegate, previously pledged to Hillary Clinton, whose delegate-status was stripped in a unanimous vote after she told a Milwaukee newspaper that she was instead considering supporting John McCain. Whether you feel that voters who previously supported Clinton are ridiculous or principled for throwing their support behind McCain, I find it pretty damn annoying that the state party organization was so quick to throw her out on her butt. I understand their desire to protect the party, but the least they could have done was agree to allow her to attend the convention and support Clinton. Removing her delegate status only draws attention to the story (although McCain was doing a pretty good job of that by himself, obviously) and gives it even better legs. Kinda dumb, Wisconsin.

What's Obama up to these days, you ask? It seems he's been busy demonstrating to much of Western Europe what we in the U.S. should have figured out long ago - that he has no discernible platform. Can anyone else visualize what the first year of an Obama administration would like on a policy front? Of course there would be Iraq and economic policy changes (because a trained dolphin elected to the presidency this year would have to come up with some new policy on those two issues), but what else would he do? What does he actually care about? Hillary Clinton cared about health care; McCain cares about foreign affairs. What does Obama care about? And I'm not asking what his policy papers say; I'm asking what he actually talks about in his speeches. What, based on those public statements, matters to him - other than getting elected?