OBAMA SCORES ANOTHER HUGE WIN-- THE AMERICANS ABROAD PRIMARY RESULTS ARE IN AND IT'S MORE TERRIBLE NEWS FOR HILLARY

Daleep is a friend of mine in Delhi. One evening, when I took off from poking around ancient ruins, I was went to an opera recital at the Purana Qila (Old Fort) with Daleep and his mother and cousin. The Italian Embassy put on the presentation-- at the same exquisite place the Indians had Bush speak when he visited. Who gets invited to opera recitals at national monuments by the Italian Embassy? People like my friend Daleep. Daleep was frustrated that his U.S. citizenship papers still haven't arrived; it's only been 7 years, but for all Bush's love of cheap foreign labor flooding across our borders... well, Daleep is a senior Wall Street analyst and anything but cheap labor. And ask anyone who's applied for citizenship under Bush... it take a very, very, very long time. Instead of voting this year, he sent out a letter to all his American friends explaining why he was rooting for Hillary. He's was all about the experience meme she and McCain are pushing. The Clintons are revered in India. You can go to small villages and see their pictures hanging on otherwise bare walls. But Deleep is a minority now; even in India, people have been won over by the promise and hope Obama symbolizes. And not just the foreigners who can't vote in American elections.

Lots of Americans are living and working abroad. And they vote; even in primaries.

The early 70s found me living in Afghanistan. Not just Afghanistan but in a small village in the mountains. It took me 3 days to come down to Kabul so I could vote at the American Embassy there. It's way easier for Americans living abroad these days-- and last week Democrats living abroad turned out in record numbers (22,755 of them) for the primary. Without the tampering it took the Clinton Machine to win in districts in Harlem and Bedford Stuyvesant, Obama trounced poor Hillary. He took 62% of the vote to her 33%.


UPDATE: THE TEXAS DEBATE-- CLINTON WAS PRETTY GOOD, BUT WHEN THE VICIOUSNESS CAME OUT, SHE LOST THE NIGHT

Both our candidates sounded good. Unfortunately for Hillary, someone wrote her a really nasty, vicious line that got her boo-ed and lost her the debate. It's the line everyone will remember:

"Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in; it's change you can xerox."

Watch the video clip so you can see the context. Obama could have really devastated her by asking her which hack wrote the line for her.