Breakfast Scramble

Candidates is glass houses, the Obama campaign on the Clintons’  campaign, via MSNBC:

“As it relates to ethics and transparency,” Plouffe said, “we’re surprised that they would want to have an extended conversation about contributors and land deals and ethics issues. I don’t think that’s a lengthy conversation that’s probably going to work out very well for them.

“So we are obviously not going to allow these attacks to go unanswered, and we think things like who has the strongest ethics, who has the chance to really bring about reform, who’s going to be the most open with the American people that that’s a real distinction,” he said

I am sure the McCain campaign is paying attention and taking notes.

Self defense, sanity, New York Times:

PHOENIX – Horrified by recent campus shootings, a state lawmaker here has come up with a proposal in keeping with the Taurus .22-caliber pistol tucked in her purse: Get more guns on campus.

The lawmaker, State Senator Karen S. Johnson, has sponsored a bill, which the Senate Judiciary Committee approved last week, that would allow people with aconcealed weapons permit – limited to those 21 and older here – to carry their firearms at public colleges and universities.

Canada attacks free speech, Michelle Malkin:

You need to know about this. The same tool who went after Canadian publisher Ezra Levant over the Mohammed cartoons is also targeting other Canadian conservative bloggers with “defamation” legal threats. He is trying to shut up and shut down the right-leaning blogosphere up north one blog at a time-and then is suing people who call him a censor.

Connie Fournier at No Apologies reports on the crisis

It is time to abolish open primaries, Hot Air.

Pander Parade, Bob Hunter, Wall Street Journal:

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both claim to be ready to be president on “day one.” But on the campaign trail, both are pandering to organized labor and other antitrade activists on the left.

If the ‘rats will not stand-up to special instersts, the labor unions, they can be expected to stand-up for our country.

Fat Chance, Chicago Sun-Times:

WASHINGTON — It’s the latest big bang theory of Democratic presidential politics.

Democrats who can’t decide between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton saw the possibility dangled in front of them Wednesday that they could end up with both

Messiah, Jr,  Boston Globe:

Aides to Governor Deval Patrick fanned out across the State House yesterday, delivering copies of an 11-page, color brochure extolling the benefits of the governor’s casino plan to individual lawmakers, a move that emphasized his key arguments in advance of the scheduled release today of an independent analysis by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

Deval Patrick is a major role model for Barack Obama.   Is this slso Obama’s plan?