YOU'VE GOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY

Jimmy Carter has apparently issued another non-endorsement endorsement of Barack Obama, this time saying that while he "has not yet announced publicly," after June 3 "a lot of the superdelegates will make a decision...announced quite rapidly," and then "it will be time for her to give it up." In other words: I haven't made up my mind, but "my friend" is planning to endorse Obama soon, and when he does Hillary Clinton should concede...Of course the main difference when Carter ends the suspense and makes a "public" endorsement is that that'll be a plum opportunity for John Hagee's friends to call Obama an antisemite. Speaking of hiding your love away, Senator Byrd endorsed Obama a few days after Hillary Clinton's big-though-ultimately-insignificant win in his state. Which is funny only because I don't think anyone doubts that Robert Byrd knew whom he supported before the West Virginia primary, and West Virginians are presumably the Democrats most influenced by a Robert Byrd endorsement. But Byrd and/ or Team Obama must have concluded (correctly) that an Obama endorsement before the WV primary only would have helped Team Clinton by raising expectations for Obama and drawing attention to the state (as well as maybe making Byrd look bad). Which just goes to show yet again how twisted election coverage is. This was also probably the first time in a while that Robert Byrd's seen his former KKK membership touted as a political asset. Maybe Joe Biden can help his veep chances by resurrecting his boast about Delaware being a slave state.