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Thursday, April 17 2008, 05:34 AM Clinton, Obama face off in Philadelphia Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will debate each other Wednesday night for the first time in nearly two months. 126 News Stories, 72 Liberal Blogs, 62 Conservative Blogs Post A Comment

legitgov Obama-clinton Debate: A Whiff Of Mccarthyism As Media Pushes Democratic Campaign To The Right By Bill Van Auken. The debate aired Wednesday night by ABC television from Philadelphia was the 21st such contest held since the beginning of the Democratic primary campaign and, without a doubt, the most reactionary and contemptible. After two brief open

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Zogby Poll: Clinton Pulls Ahead In Pennsylvania The latest Zogby tracking poll in Pennsylvania shows Sen. Hillary Clinton is slowly building back her lead over Sen. Barack Obama leading up to Tuesday's primary. Clinton now leads Obama, 47% to 42% with 11% still undecided. This is the first of the tr

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Zogby Poll: Race Tight In Pennsylvania A Zogby tracking poll in Pennsylvania shows Sen. Hillary Clinton 'had a good day' following a contentious debate on Wednesday night and now holds a 47% to 43% advantage over Sen. Barack Obama -- just inside the poll's 4.1 point margin of error. Key findi

The Carpetbagger Report Worst. Debate. Ever. Over the last year or so, we’ve seen debates that were pretty bad. We’ve seen a few that were embarrassingly bad. But at least in this cycle, I’m not sure if we’ve seen anything quite as train-wreck, cover-your-eyes bad as the spec

Daily Kos The Defense Of David Brooks David Brooks wasn't the only fan of the most recent debate. Bill O'Reilly liked it too. But the New York Times has produced a sterling defense of Brooks' position that trivia is what you really want to know about the candidates. Dav

feminist blogs ?old Politics?? No, It?s Old Media! Watching the news online, it was clear what the debate story was today: Washington Post television critic Tom Shales, in an April 17 article headlined 'In Pa. Debate, The Clear Loser Is ABC,' described the debate as 'another step downward for network news

legitgov Clinton-obama Debate: Abc Hit On Focus On Minor Issues By Greg Mitchell. In perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major presidential debate in years, ABC News hosts Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolous focused mainly on trivial issues as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama faced off in

Wonkette The Pennsylvania Surge Is Working! [polling Statistics] Hold on to your panties, Obamatards: since Wednesday night's debate, Barack Obama has lost a point and Hillary Clinton has gained two. The final nail in the coffin comes from Zogby's own John Zogby: 'No ground really gained or lost by either candidate aft

MyDD Obama Up Just 3 Points In Gallup Poll, But 19 Points Per Newsweek Thursday marked the 11th straight day in which Barack Obama's lead over Hillary Clinton in nationwide polling from Gallup was large enough to fall outside of the daily tracking poll's margin of error. In the time since, however, Obama's lead has shrunk to

The Carpetbagger Report Friday?s Campaign Round-up Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Rasmussen, which seems to have been hit or miss this year, shows the race in Pennsylvania tightenin

Wonkette A Hope Deficit [daily Briefing] The ABC News debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama featured important questions such as why Obama does not wear the American flag, and whether his former pastor loves America enough. [New York Times]Cindy McCain has Budweiser on tap in her home.

legitgov In Pa. Debate, The Clear Loser Is Abc By Tom Shales When Barack Obama met Hillary Clinton for another televised Democratic candidates' debate last night, it was more than a step forward in the 2008 presidential election. It was another step downward for network news -- in particular ABC News, which hosted

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Rasmussen: Pennsylvania Race Gets Closer The latest Rasmussen Reports survey in Pennsylvania shows Sen. Hillary Clinton leading Sen. Barack Obama by just three points, 47% to 44%. Last week, Clinton was leading Obama 50% to 41%.

Think Progress O?reilly Redefines ?fair And Balanced?: Find People Who Hate Both Democrats. Last night, Bill O’Reilly offered the newest definition of Fox News’s “Fair and Balanced” slogan: Bring on guests who hate both Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Barack Obama (D-IL). Following a segment with Karl Rove — who tr

Wonkette Video Shocker: Did Obama Flip Off Hillary? [wishful Thinking] Barack Obama dismisses the trashy debate last night and then ... does he give Hillary Clinton a subtle middle finger? No, sadly — it's two fingers, and he appears to have an itch on his face or whatever. But it is an important clue into how crazy e

Daily Kos Dean To Superdelegates: Make Your Endorsements Now Those numerate in delegate math know that Hillary Clinton cannot become the Democratic nomination unless Barack Obama is so damaged by some unforeseen event that he has to give up his lead and drop out of the race. There's just about no conceivable

feminist blogs Hillary On The Colbert Report (video) Hillary Clinton Debate Politics Barack Obama Democratic Primary News BitterGate Philadelphia Pennsylvania Stephen Colbert

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Debate Reaction In a severe case of bad timing -- just days before the Pennsylvania primary -- Sen. Barack Obama gave his worst performance in a debate so far last night. It's not that Sen. Hillary Clinton 'won' the debate, but Obama clearly lost it.If you missed it, che

The Carpetbagger Report Debating The Debate, Complaining About Complaining Barack Obama seemed to take some pleasure yesterday in tapping into Democratic disappointment with the ABC News debate in Philadelphia on Wednesday. He emphasized, repeatedly, that the moderators didn’t ask a single substantive question for over 45

Suburban Guerrilla Ahem Turkana at the Left Coaster: Because the corporate media always attack Democrats, and always do it dishonestly and unfairly, we Democrats should denounce them for it. Every time it happens. And it shouldn’t matter whether or not the Democrat being s

feminist blogs Leave Barack Obama Alone!!! (video) Leave Barack Alone!!! video via SusanUnPC Philadelphia Democratic Debate: ABC News Was Mean to the MessiahHillary Clinton Debate Politics Barack Obama Democratic Primary News BitterGate Philadelphia Pennsylvania ABC News Debate

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Insiders Split On Obama, Clinton The latest National Journal Congressional Insiders Poll finds that Democratic lawmakers -- by a 54% to 41% margin -- believe Sen. Barack Obama is a stronger candidate than Sen. Hillary Clinton against Sen. John McCain in the fall election.However, Republi

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Zogby Poll: Pennsylvania Too Close To Call A new Zogby poll in Pennsylvania finds Sen. Hillary Clinton barely edging Sen. Barack Obama, 45% to 44% with 12% undecided.Key findings: 'Clinton leads by a wide margin in western Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh, while Obama leads by a large percentage

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Clinton Running Out Of Time The Associated Press says 'time is running out' on Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations, 'the long-ago front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination who now trails Barack Obama in delegates, states won and popular votes.''Compounding

The Carpetbagger Report Friday?s Mini-report Today’s edition of quick hits. * If the new Gallup daily tracking poll is right, the Democratic race hasn’t been this tight in weeks: “Gallup Poll Daily tracking shows a tightening of the national Democratic race, with Barack Obama now

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Clinton Needs Big Win In Pennsylvania The Wall Street Journal sums up the emerging conventional wisdom about next week's Pennsylvania primary and Sen. Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the Democratic nomination: 'Anything less than a double-digit victory could solidify the perception that

feminist blogs Obama Gives Hillary The Finger (video) Like problematic progressive women keep saying, Obama's an ass. But then we've had lots of experience with a particular type of ass who can stand most anything except the threat of losing to a girl.Mark Silva The Swamp: [V]iewers need to pay some attenti

Pensito Review Pennsylvania ? It?s Not All Deer Hunters As Hillary Clinton slams back boilermakers and talks gun talk in Pennsylvania and Barack Obama parses the bitterness of denizens of the Rust Belt, it’s worth noting that, according to 2006 U.S. Census data, Pennsylvanians are pretty much like most e

MyDD Building A Party, Not Tearing One Down Reading Jerome's post this afternoon, I must respectfully, though strongly, disagree with the sentiment he passes along from Big Tent Democrat that Obama supporters' 'hatred of Bill and Hillary Clinton has become more important to them than Obama's chance

Wonkette Yale Art Student Offends Everyone With Abortion Project [miscarriages Of Justice] Some kooky Yale gal made an art project where she got knocked up and then made herself miscarry a million times, and then she smeared her gross abortion blood together with Vaseline and put it on a large suspended cube and now everybody hates her. She wan

AlterNet.org What Does 9/11 Have To Do With 60's Radicals? Ask Hillary Clinton Behind the scenes, Hillary Clinton's campaign has been pushing a tenuous connection between Barack Obama and a Vietnam-era radical.

Easter Lemming Liberal News Worst Dabate Ever The crowd ends up booing the inane stupid questions ABC kept asking.I am going to link to a DIGG for the comments and video link.Daily Kos with numerous diaries and all the liberal blogs have more and even the Washington Post joined in the pile-on on ABC.

Daily Kos Abc On Abc Following the storm of criticism ABC received over Wednesday night's Democratic debate game of Trivial Pursuit hosted by George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson, it was time for the network to weigh in and boy howdy, there's nothing like a little introsp

feminist blogs Enough Is Enough Hi,If you missed the Democratic presidential debate on ABC Wednesday night,Editor & Publisher called it "perhaps the most embarrassing performance bythe media in a major presidential debate in years."Moderators George Stephanopoulos and Cha

MyDD Holding Abc Accountable: Protest In Los Angeles Today Like it or not, the massive pushback against ABC fueled by outrage over Wednesday's debate has been an impressive mobilization of the left, especially online. As Ben Smith puts it: [The debate] triggered the most furious outrage I've seen from the huge,

Daily Kos Clinton Trashes Moveon, Part Ii Following up on Markos' earlier post on Hillary Clinton trashing MoveOn for opposing a war they didn't oppose and for encouraging people to vote, here's what Hillary had to say about the organization earlier in the campaign, before they endorsed Barack Ob

American Street The Race For The Nomination Is Over ? Still Hillary Clinton has not made her case sufficiently to overcome Barack Obama’s lead and she’s going to continue to fall far short of the type of blow-out wins that will be needed to even get close. Though the PPP poll yesterday gave Obama a 3%

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Cbs Poll: Obama Way Ahead Among College Students Most college students in Pennsylvania 'are enthusiastic about voting in the presidential campaign,' according to a CBS News/UWIRE poll. Among Pennsylvania students who will vote or have voted in a Democratic primary in any state, Sen. Barack Obama leads

MyDD Clinton Campaign: The Democratic Race Will Be Over In June It has generally been assumed that the Obama campaign wanted the Democratic race to end as soon as possible while the Clinton campaign was determined to keep fighting all the way through the convention. But perhaps that assumption is off the mark. Here's

The Carpetbagger Report Thursday?s Campaign Round-up Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Barack Obama probably didn’t have any fun at last night’s debate, but he had a pretty g

Suburban Guerrilla Splitting Hairs I went to get my hair cut last night, and my cutter and I got to talking about politics. Guess who my tattooed, heavily-pierced stylist supports? Hillary Clinton. “Every time I pick up Rolling Stone, it’s Obama this, Obama that,” he said

The Carpetbagger Report Obama Picks Up Support From Bloomberg-ites Ordinarily, presidential endorsements from two former red-state senators, neither of whom are especially high-profile right now, wouldn’t be especially newsworthy, but I think today’s announcement that Sam Nunn and David Boren are backing Bara

Down with Absolutes! Street Fightin? Man According to most accounts, Barack Obama had a pretty weak showing in Wednesday night?s debate. He appeared to be caught a bit off-guard by the litany of questions about, well?things he didn?t want to talk about anymore. Objection, Your Honor, asked and

AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush and Cheney Now! In Praise Of Bill Ayers And The Weather Underground By Dave Lindorff The pundits are having a heyday with Hillary Clinton's sleazy McCarthyite attack on Barack Obama during the April 16 debate, trying to link him to the Weather Underground because of his having served on a charity organization board with o

Daily Kos Clinton Acknowledges There's No Good Reason For Her To Stay In Race Only two things really matter about last night's debate. First, it was probably the worst performance by 'moderators' in a presidential debate. Ever. It really was that bad, and we cannot let that happen again where Democratic positions

AlterNet.org Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Gender Is Hillary Clinton's Achilles Heel No one would dare make a blatantly racist comment about Obama. Yet sexist remarks are constantly spewed at Hillary Clinton.

AlterNet.org Gender Is Hillary Clinton's Achilles Heel No one would dare make a blatantly racist comment about Obama. Yet sexist remarks are constantly spewed at Hillary Clinton.

MyDD Clinton Blames Increased Democratic Activism For Her Struggles I'm decidedly in the camp that believes that increased Democratic activism is a good thing, both for the party and the nation as a whole. With more of the Democratic base voting and volunteering and contributing, the Democrats have a much better shot at w

The Carpetbagger Report Dean Looking For Superdelegates To Decide ?now? There are competing tallies showing how Democratic superdelegates are planning to vote — it’s not an exact science, and some of these party leaders are still changing their minds — but by one updated count, Hillary Clinton now has the su

MyDD Tiny Tent Dems Basically (via BTD): 'Their hatred of Bill and Hillary Clinton has become more important to them than Obama's chances of winning in November.' After being gone a week and coming back to the situation at hand with a fresh view, that about sums it up.

Wonkette Hillary Wins Clutch College Newspaper Endorsement [the Endorsements Battle] As you can see, the Hillary Clinton campaign was so excited about the endorsement from Penn's Daily Pennsylvanian — your associate editor's former college newspaper — that it sent this 'MUST READ' release to the press. Meanwhile, the only Phil

feminist blogs Obama Flips Hillary The Bird The transformative Hope & Change™ agent in action: More coverage and longer clips at No Quarter, Corrente, and Riverdaughter. It’s increasingly clear that for a significant number of people, a vote for Obama is a vote for misogyny

Wonkette Superdelegates Still Snubbing Hillary Clinton [uncommitted] Hillary Clinton could make her entire body into a pin cushion stuffed with American flag ornaments and still she would get no love from misogynist superdelegates. This is what we have learned from various influential voter-type people in the wake of Tuesd

Think Progress Hannity Brags Of Influence Over Stephanopoulos: ?i Suggested The Question? Last night on Hannity & Colmes, Sean Hannity boasted of his success in influencing ABC News Chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos to ask Barack Obama a question about the Weather Underground in a recent debate. After being lobbied by H

Daily Kos Headed To Los Angeles I'm en route to Los Angeles for tonight's taping of Real Time with Bill Maher. Should be fun. Jeremy Scahill and Cornel West will also be on, as well as neocon Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Two random thoughts: First, I really wish Hillary Clinton would stop demoniz

AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush and Cheney Now! Nader?s Running Mate Matt Gonzalez On The Dems, The War And The Strategy For November By Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: From the Democrats, we now turn to another candidate in the 2008 field: Matt Gonzalez, running on Ralph Nader?s ticket as a vice-presidential candidate, San Francisco-based attorney, former president of the San Francisco Boa

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Reich Will Back Obama The fact that former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president isn't really a surprise, but that doesn't make John Heileman's article about it in New York magazine any less interesting. Reich says it was the

MyDD Two Different Debates Predictably, both campaigns have sent out e-mail blasts trying to exploit last night's debate as a fundraising pitch. The funny thing is the asks of the two candidates paint very different pictures of the debate. Hillary Clinton's pitch: Last night, Senat

MyDD Live From The National Constitution Center I've made it here to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia for tonight's debate. I'm in the media filing room and, well, I have to say this is the lamest filing room I've been to. We're basically in a cafeteria sitting in those middle school ca

Wonkette Analyzing The Analysis: Drunkenly Liveblogging Bald Commentators [the Philadelphia Std Shuffle] Oh good God is it over? Where did the nice lady in the suitjacket the color of a Crate & Barrel couch go? Now we see only Keith Olbermann in earth tones. Amazingly, he is less annoying than the Folks asking the questions in tonight's interminable debate.

AlterNet.org Obama Bowls For Pennsylvania Can Barack Obama get racially mixed communities in Pennsylvania's small towns to bowl together?

Virtual Pus Welcome Shakesville Crazies! I see from the stats that many people are coming to check out the misogynist freak, but not having the guts to make any comments. You know, morbid curiosity got the better of me, and so I looked at the aftermath of the no-issue shitstorm that my (unfo

Wonkette Hillary Courts Dentally Challenged Old Racist Demographic [she Is A Monster] Not only will Hillary Clinton throw back a beer and a bump with impoverished, toothless old white men living in forgotten Rust Belt towns, she will actually become a toothless old white man IF THAT IS WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN. (Thank you reader 'Dave' for sh

AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush and Cheney Now! Petraeus Hid Maliki Resistance To Us Troops In Basra By Gareth Porter, IPS WASHINGTON, Apr 17 (IPS) - In testimony before Congressional committees last week, Gen. David Petraeus portrayed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's late March offensive in Basra as a poorly planned effort that departed from what

The World Around You Bad Night For Obama I didn’t watch the debate, but I trust Marc Ambinder’s assessment…it doesn’t sound good. He’s right that it may boomerang back on Hillary and that Obama will raise significant dollars, but the timing is just horrid. A win

Suburban Guerrilla Classy Obama flips Clinton the bird. No, really. Listen to the crowd: ShareThis

MyDD Post Debate Thread Although it was somewhat redeemed in the final half hour, I feel like taking a shower after that debate. It was tabloid hour on ABC, and certainly Obama did get the bulk of the more disgusting questions. Check out this post over at ABCNews.com: over 4,000

Daily Kos The Hillary Game: who Said It? To anyone with a functioning brain, the performance by ABC's Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos at last night's Democratic debate was nothing less than an embarrassment. Gibson and Stephanopoulos spent more than half of their time playing 'got

feminist blogs Urge Your Senators To Support Fair Pay! Finally something of use from the Feminist Majority which went way down after Ellie Smeal took over. This is their message which I received today and it IS important - several years ago the Supreme Court knifed the Equal Pay Act and congress did nothing t

MyDD 14 New Surveyusa Statewide Ge Polls Out From the diaries. Obama could run for Governor of Iowa as an Illinois resident and win, but can he break out of the 20's in Kentucky against Clinton or, if he gets the nod, against McCain? More seriously, Virginia seems in the pocket of McCain again, jero

Daily Kos The Yearlykos Questions Remember when no one wanted to take a debate sponsored by some silly bloggers seriously? Take a look at the questions prepared for the Democratic presidential debate at YearlyKos in Chicago last summer. Not all of them were asked because of time or becaus

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Switchers For Obama? Mark Halperin: 'The Obama campaign tells Stephanopoulos that 'prominent Pennsylvania supporters' will switch their support from Clinton to Obama Thursday morning due to Clinton's negativity.'Update: The Washington Post reports a Washington, D.C. city coun

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Right Wing Nut House Finally, The Media ?discovers? Obama-ayers Relationship It is a major story in the New York Times, Politico, the New York Post, and the left wing Guardian in Great Britain. It is the most curious of all Barack Obama’s problematic relationships and calls into question not only his judgement but the core

The Sundries Shack Obama Flinches At The Mention Of Another Debate Heh. Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday suggested he doesn’t see any point in having another debate with Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton. Wednesday’s debate on ABC may be the final face-off between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Cli

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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog The Nutroots Go Ballistic Over Abc Democrat Debate Coverage Last Night http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SsMTK7IFkw Georgie gets the in memoriam treatment for his career after making a complete fool out of himself while hosting the latest Democratic primary debate. Wow! A boring, uneventful debate where Barack Obama, the Me

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UrbanGrounds John Mccain Wins Democratic Debate In Philly I watched about the first 45 minutes of the debate last night, but turned it off after my stomach wouldn’t stop turning. Plus, I wanted to see who got voted out of the Big Brother 9 house (Natalie was back-doored so hard that for once she didn’

The Politicker Robert Reich For Obama The Obama campaign just announced that Robert Reich, who served as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, is endorsing Barack Obama. Here's part of what Reich wrote (where else?) on his blog: I believe that Barack Obama should be elected President of the

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Outside The Beltway | OTB Dean: Superdelegates Must Decide Now DNC chairman Howard Dean is tired of the democratic process and wants the superdelegates to decide who the Democratic nominee will be now. An increasingly firm Howard Dean told CNN again Thursday that he needs superdelegates to say who they?re for ? and

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GayPatriot Credit Where It?s Due Or The Problem With Googling Yesterday, I wrote that I could have sworn I had read ABC News was the real loser of the Pennsylvania Democratic debate on some blog (probably Andrew Sullivan’s). But, when I checked the blogs, but must have neglected to review all the posts I had

Outside The Beltway | OTB Defining ?middle Class? Dave Schuler, commenting on last night’s Democratic debate, observes: Sens. Clinton and Obama used different definitions of ?the middle class? in answer to Charlie Gibson?s attempt to extract from them a ?no new taxes? on the middle class from them.

The Politicker Obama Gains Endorsements, Potential Running Mates Sam Nunn and David Boren, two moderate-to-conservative former senators from the South, both endorsed Barack Obama today, furthering Obama's effort to convince the media and Democratic superdelegates that his grip on the Democratic nomination is only tight

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run I'm On The Pavement, Thinkin' 'bout The Government Ex-Weather Underground terrorist, current doyenne of the Chicago left (both extreme and mainstream) Bill Ayers, deals with his "episodic notoriety."I’m often quoted saying that I have “no regrets.” This is not true. For anyone

WSJ.com: Opinion The Democrats And Gun Control Don't believe it when Barack and Hillary say they respect the Second Amendment.

Newsweek Top News Philadelphia's Democratic Debate The 21st Obama-Clinton debate was just more of the same

memeorandum Former Senators Sam Nunn And David L. Boren Endorse Barack Obama For President (sam Graham-felsen/my.barackobama.com) Sam Graham-Felsen / my.barackobama.com: Former Senators Sam Nunn and David L. Boren Endorse Barack Obama for President — Chicago, IL - Today, Former Senators Sam Nunn and David L. Boren endorsed Barack Obama for president, citing his ju

michellemalkin.com Barack Obama?s Pro-lifer-as-terrorist Analogy Barack Obama’s performance was so awful last night, I gave short shrift to his cringe-inducing comparison of convicted terrorist Bill Ayers with GOP Sen. […] Read the rest »

BrothersJudd Blog The Acorns Want To Be Like Each Other...: Hillary Clinton falls for Gordon Brown's tax appeal (Andrew Gimson, 18/04/2008, Daily Telegraph) Hillary Clinton has moved to consolidate her position as the Gordon Brown of American politics. There are some superficial differences between the two. Mrs Cl

Newsweek Top News Factcheck.org: Taking Liberties In Philadelphia Truth is not always self-evident in the latest Clinton-Obama debate.

memeorandum Clinton Slams Democratic Activists At Private Fundraiser (celeste Fremon/the Huffington Post) Celeste Fremon / The Huffington Post: Clinton Slams Democratic Activists At Private Fundraiser — At a small closed-door fundraiser after Super Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton blamed what she called the “activist base” of the D

The Politicker Raising Money Off Gibson And Stephanopoulos The Obama campaign just sent supporters the following email: Did you see the debate last night? If you did, you saw more gotcha politics and distractions than questions about the pressing issues affecting our country. In fact, it took more than

The Politicker Quinn Still Raising Money In a bit of interesting timing, Christine Quinn is having a fund-raiser on April 24 in Manhattan at the home of David Durst, a Hillary Clinton contributor. Quinn, a likely mayoral candidate who shaped her public image as a reformer, has spent the last cou

Jo's Cafe Blinders Everywhere On The Left When Bill Clinton ran for office, we were not suppose to bring up the fact he never served in the military. He was impeached in office. When George Bush ran for office, we were told his lack of “active duty” military service disqualified him t

Big Dogs Weblog The Ho Hum Democratic Debate Copyright © 2008 Big Dog. Visit the original article at http://www.onebigdog.net/the-ho-hum-democratic-debate/.Though ABC’s moderators did everything they could to incite a war between the remaining Democratic contenders, last night’s deb

Stop The ACLU New York Times: ?broad Attacks In Debate? Yes, the New York Times was referring to Hillary. I jumped on Real Clear Politics a few minutes ago and noticed that the first story for today on its Politics and Election News section was a NYT story titled “Clinton Employs Broad Attacks in Debate.

FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog Abc?s George Stephanopoulos Defends http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SsMTK7IFkw Georgie gets the in memoriam treatment for his career after making a complete fool out of himself while hosting the latest Democratic primary debate. ABC?s George Stephanopoulos defends from last night’s

The Discerning Texan Updated The Debate: All Lies All The Time</