Blog Buzz: Hillary Ad Infinitum, Race Talk Forever, How McCain is Bearing Up

Stories and topics lighting up the Internets today:

She may be finished, but we can't stop talking about her

Unity Ticket talk continues, with a chorus of doubt coming from both conservatives (Ed Morrissey at Hot Air is skeptical), and liberals (neither Michael Tomasky nor Matthew Yglesias like the idea either). Nevertheless, The Fix ranks HRC at 3 on the VP list. Going in the other direction, Steve Clemons notes Matt Cooper's assessment that we won't have Hillary Clinton to kick around on any ballot ever again. Of course, like the famous Monty Python character, the Clinton campaign isn't actually dead yet, and RealClear Politics's Jay Cost makes an argument that she really, really can still come back. The campaign itself is sending out a Powerpoint argument to superdelegates, and TPM's Election Central has got it.

Hard-working bloggers (they don't necessarily have to be white, Hillary) still buzz over the Clinton comments

TPM's David Kurtz continues to chew over Clinton's comments to USA Today, arguing that if a Republican had said it Democrats would be ballistic in ways not yet evident here. Robert George at Ragged Thots wonders if this isn't part of a Clinton plan to remake the Democratic Party by trading a portion of the black vote to reclaim some whites (and Latinos).

It's Friday afternoon. Do you know where your bearings are?

The Obama-McCain "bearings" tiff continues to get bipartisan blog traction, with Red State's Soren Dayton calling the comment a cheap shot, and Judith Klinghoffer at the conservative Political Mavens saying it indicates a broader lack of respect from Obama. On the left, Daily Kos's Trapper John argues that the McCain camp's touchiness has less to do with fear of ageism than concerns about the candidate losing his "straight talking" sheen.

—Robert Schlesinger