Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Post holiday odds and ends ...
Emerging from a secure undisclosed location in New England, Hub Blog will dispatch with a few lingering holiday-weekend issues. ... First, Hillary's June-assassination comments. I'm sorry. I can't cut her much slack on this one. Even before she opened her mouth on Friday, I and many others were privately thinking: Is she staying in the race partly because Obama might get knocked off? Then her words spilled out -- and the dreaded thought was out in the open. Maybe she wasn't thinking what others were thinking. But keep in mind she used the word 'assassinated' in her remarks. She also fibbed about what prompted her to make the RFK reference -- for we know she said roughly the same thing in March (i.e. before Ted Kennedy's brain-tumor revelation). She's playing the slim odds by staying in. We know that. She knows that. The Clintons cover every angle. And no Hubert Humphrey is going to slip by her, damn it. ... You see? I thought of the Humphrey angle too. So I'm pretty sure the Clintons have as well. ...
... After the Celts won Game 3 in Detroit (I had a hunch they'd win one on the road), Hub Blog actually entertained the thought that the Celts might go up 3-1 before returning to the Garden. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I don't know where the series is headed from here. I'm tilting toward a Celts victory in seven, based on the awesome performance in Game 3. ...
Overheard at Hub Blog's secure undisclosed holiday location this weekend: A lot of people are hanging around New England this summer due to the weak dollar, not high gas prices. We tend to forget that a lot of young people travel to Europe after high school or college graduation. Not this year. I saw more young people this past weekend than in holidays past -- and I heard a few early 20-somethings discussing their dashed Euro trips this summer. I assume many adults are also hesitant about plopping down $400 for hotel rooms in Europe. ...
Emerging from a secure undisclosed location in New England, Hub Blog will dispatch with a few lingering holiday-weekend issues. ... First, Hillary's June-assassination comments. I'm sorry. I can't cut her much slack on this one. Even before she opened her mouth on Friday, I and many others were privately thinking: Is she staying in the race partly because Obama might get knocked off? Then her words spilled out -- and the dreaded thought was out in the open. Maybe she wasn't thinking what others were thinking. But keep in mind she used the word 'assassinated' in her remarks. She also fibbed about what prompted her to make the RFK reference -- for we know she said roughly the same thing in March (i.e. before Ted Kennedy's brain-tumor revelation). She's playing the slim odds by staying in. We know that. She knows that. The Clintons cover every angle. And no Hubert Humphrey is going to slip by her, damn it. ... You see? I thought of the Humphrey angle too. So I'm pretty sure the Clintons have as well. ...
... After the Celts won Game 3 in Detroit (I had a hunch they'd win one on the road), Hub Blog actually entertained the thought that the Celts might go up 3-1 before returning to the Garden. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I don't know where the series is headed from here. I'm tilting toward a Celts victory in seven, based on the awesome performance in Game 3. ...
Overheard at Hub Blog's secure undisclosed holiday location this weekend: A lot of people are hanging around New England this summer due to the weak dollar, not high gas prices. We tend to forget that a lot of young people travel to Europe after high school or college graduation. Not this year. I saw more young people this past weekend than in holidays past -- and I heard a few early 20-somethings discussing their dashed Euro trips this summer. I assume many adults are also hesitant about plopping down $400 for hotel rooms in Europe. ...
