Clinton to Obama: This is SO not over!, World’s Worst Poet Takes Down Harry Potter (and More!)

By Ccandysuzie

And now the news with Kandy Korrespondent:

On Monday, Presidential hopeful Hilary Clinton made it clear that she will continue to contest Senator Obama’s claim to the Democratic nomination. Responding to the widening call for her to step aside she told a rally in Kentucky,

“This is nowhere near over […] None of us is going to have the number of delegates we’re going to need to get to the nomination, although I understand my opponent and his supporters are going to claim that”

Hilary Clinton is trailing Barack Obama by delegates and superdelegates. In the days since the pivotal Indiana and North Carolina primaries, several Clinton supporters have defected to Obama. On Monday, Obama picked up five more superdelegates.

Democrats are going to the polls today in Kentucky and Oregon where 103 delegates are at play. Obama is projected to take Oregon while Clinton is thought to have a large lead in Kentucky.

In Other News:

Anti-Immigrant violence has left at least 22 dead in South Africa. Immigrants are hiding in churches, police stations, and, if they are lucky, in the homes of their South African friends. Stories about the violence over the weekend featured a horrific picture of a police officer trying to put out a man who had been set on fire by the mob.

The violence seems to stem in part from the sudden influx of 3 million Zimbabweans who have sought refuge in South Africa from their country’s current instability.

Meanwhile in Zimbabwe, a run-off between incumbent dictator Robert Mugabe and the opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has been scheduled for June 27th. Last week, however, the US ambassador to Zimbabwe warned that with the current level of violence and intimidation, a fair run-off election is impossible. Tsvangirai fled the country fearing for his life shortly after the election. He postponed his plans to return last weekend, saying that the Mugabe government is planning to assassinate him. (For a background on the current Zimbabwe crisis, check out my other articles)

And Now for Something Completely Different…

Poems by “the world’s worst poet” outsold signed first edition Harry Potter books during an auction in Edinburgh, Scotland. Apparently, William McGonagall (1825-1902) is the world’s worst poet. The private collector paid £6,600 for a collection of the monstrosities while the signed Harry Potter books only brought in a total of £6,000.

The best part of this story is hearing why people call him the worst poet. His verse is pretty bad and fairly sappy but the clincher is how incredibly bombastic he was in regards to his “talent”. According to Alex Dove, one of the auctioneers,

“He was a confident gentleman who thought that his poetry was some of the best. He once walked all the way to Balmoral to try to become Poet Laureate. Unfortunately the Queen wasn’t in. He spent a lot of time on the streets of Dundee trying to sell his poems and performing them, much to the amusement of the residents.”

According to Dove, students would “poet-bait” meaning that they would encourage him to perform and then pelt him with eggs and tomatoes.

That’s the news! See you tomorrow.