Maybe it's what you'd expect to hear from the fan base about the Rev. Wright uproar, but state Sen. Bill Perkins from Harlem (left in recent photo) insisted last night as colleagues gathered for the statewide Democratic meeting in Saratoga: "It looks like we're moving past that issue. He'll do what it takes to continue in the fight."
"It's getting toward the finish line," he said. "The mathematics suggest he's unbeatable," Perkins said -- unless "the new math" from the Clinton camp regarding delegates somehow comes to be believed. Indiana? "I think he'll win -- we'll have gotten past this latest episode" and the economy and foreign policy will take center stage, Perkins predicted.
Clinton supporters in the reception room at the Saratoga Hilton -- and of course there were many -- weren't buying it, of course. One well-placed Clinton operative, who declined to comment, merely smiled, without even acknowledging it had been a good week for their candidate.
Dan Janison