Ted Kennedy's comments about Hillary Clinton's prospects on an Obama ticket constituted a "gratuitous attack on her," Rahm Emanuel called to say.

John R. Wilke reports on the presidential race.

Is John McCain another George W. Bush? “Nothing could be further from the truth,” said Carly Fiorina, a top McCain adviser, working to distance the Republican presidential candidate from the unpopular incumbent president in an appearance on ABC’s This Week.

McCain “spoke loudly, for four long years, saying that Don Rumsfeld was the worst secretary of defense in history, that the prosecution of the war in Iraq was going badly, and that we needed a new strategy,” said the former chief executive of Hewlett Packard Co. “And we are now executing a new strategy because of John McCain.”

Fiorina said Sunday that the Arizona senator has differed with Bush on many other issues, “on global warming, on climate change, on how we should deal with high fuel prices right now, saying that we should stop the fill of the strategic petroleum reserve, for example.”

But she also delivered a head-scratcher. She said a new emphasis on nuclear power could create “potentially many millions of jobs” in the U.S.

“Sen. McCain has said over and over again that we have to incent innovation so that we are building these new green technologies. We have to incent innovation around things like clean coal. We also have to incent innovation around nuclear power, which is clean, it’s abundant.

“Yes, there are issues, but nuclear power, if we would step up and adopt nuclear power in this country, that’s potentially many millions of jobs.”

She didn’t explain how building and operating more nuclear plants would create so many new jobs. While staffing at such plants varies widely by plant age and design, few employ more than 1,000 workers.

On May 9, the Village Voice posted this interview with Bob Barr. The interviewer asks good questions, such as what Barr would do about Iraq if he were actually elected president, and his reaction to his inadvertent appearance in the “Borat” movie a few years ago.

Last week, the Michigan Democratic Party said all factions had agreed on a proposed division of delegates, 69 for Clinton and 59 for Obama. However, on May 8, the Clinton campaign said it does not support the plan. Since the national Democratic Party would need to approve the state Democratic plan, and since the chances of the national party approving it depended on the plan having consensus support, the plan is almost certainly doomed. See this story. Thanks to Thomas Jones.