Daily Tidbits: March 27, 2008

• Author finds that Hillary is far from being “the most transparent” as she claims, by any standard.
• New Pew Research poll gives Obama a 10 point national lead.  Poll was concluded five days ago, before Hillary’s lie about Bonsia became a leading MSM story. 
• What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?  Hillary campaign claims it played no role in drafting letter from her campaign’s wealthy donors that contained the not-so-veiled threat of ceasing donations to the Democratic party if Pelosi didn’t switch to Hillary’s anti-democratic position on the Unelected Delegates.  That’s right, her strongest and wealthiest financial supporters did this completely on their own without any coordination whatsoever.  And their letter just happened to mirror Hillary’s position on the role of Unelected Delegates.  Sounds like something’s fishy in Bosnia.
• Liar’s Limp.  Hillary slipping in new Gallup daily tracking poll:  Obama 48%, Hillary 44% (+1 O, -2 H).
• Pelosi replies to Hillary’s wealthy donors on Unelected Delegate issue.  Tells them Hillary’s idea of having Unelected Delegates trump will of the voters would ”do great harm to the Democratic Party.”  Nicely done. 
• Campaign Finance Management as Proxy for Economy Stewardship?  Obama is running the most fiscally sound campaign of the three candidates.
• Time’s Joe Klein suggests Gore serving as a brokered solution, if necessary, with Obama as his running mate.  Ahem, and what’s wrong with Obama-Gore?  At least that’s what many readers of this blog prefer.
• In Obama’s speech today on the economy, he proposes new $30B stimulus plan and new relief for homeowners; criticizes McCain’s proposal to do nothing / let market sort out our cratering housing sector and credit crisis.
• Investigative report on leading subprime lender shows “Enron-like” improper accounting practices.
• Mayor Bloomberg to introduce Obama at his economic speech in Manhattan tomorrow.
• U.S. government contractor supplying weapons to Afghani government troops fighting the Taliban and al qaeda forces has been supplying 40-year old weapons of poor quality and suspect origin.
• Media lovefest for McCain continues: WaPo’s reaction to his economic speech proposing to do nothing is glowing if not drooling.