Obama and Clinton: CNN Texas Debate Mashup

Obama and Clinton: CNN Texas Debate Mashup - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

Obama and Clinton: Breaking Us In Two.

Joe Jackson music video parody. Mashup of CNN Texas debate footage.

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Barack Obama cruised past a fading Hillary Rodham Clinton

Obama Wins Wis. Primary, Hawaii Caucus:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama cruised past a fading Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Wisconsin primary and Hawaii caucuses Tuesday night, gaining the upper hand in a Democratic presidential race for the ages.

The twin triumphs made 10 straight for Obama, and left the former first lady in desperate need of a comeback in a race she long commanded as front-runner.

It's not looking good for Hillary. People don't like her going negative.

Allocation of the 20 Hawaii delegates was not being calculated until later Wednesday.

The network commentators like John King on CNN are now asking people to exclude the Superdelegate count when looking at the race to see who is ahead.

Like I've been saying all along.

Superdelegates are going to change their minds and back the front runner.

The Real Delegate Scorecard

Election Center 2008: Delegate Scorecard - Elections & Politics news from CNN.com

Obama Wins Donation Landslide

Liza Sabater: If fundraising were an election, Barack Obama has won it by a landslide

If small donations where a trend for the elections, Obama would win the primaries and the general elections by a landslide.

Baratunde: HAAAA HAAAA: Hillary "Loans" Self $5M; Obama Gets $6M From The People In 24 Hours

...the Clinton campaign admitted that she had written her campaign a check for $5M in the month of January, yes the month in which Obama cleared $32M.

Elected Experience: Obama vs. Clinton

The Washington Post has the facts on who has nore elected office experience, Obama or Clinton:

Members of Congress / Barack Obama:

OBAMA, Barack, a Senator from Illinois; born in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 1961; obtained early education in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Hawaii; continued education at Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif., and Columbia University, New York City; studied law at Harvard University, where he became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review, and received J.D. in 1992; lecturer on constitutional law, University of Chicago; member, Illinois State senate 1997-2004; elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 2004 for term beginning January 3, 2005.

Obama: 7 Years Illinois State Senate, 3 Years U.S. Senate

Members of Congress / Hillary Clinton

CLINTON, Hillary Rodham, (wife of President William Jefferson Clinton), a Senator from New York; born on October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois; attended public school in Park Ridge, Illinois; graduated Wellesley College, BA 1969; graduated Yale Law School, JD 1973; attorney; counsel, impeachment inquiry staff, House Judiciary Committee 1974; First Lady of Arkansas 1979-1981, 1983-1993; First Lady of the United States 1993-2001; elected to the United States Senate for term commencing January 3, 2001; reelected in 2006 for the term ending January 3, 2013.

Clinton: 7 Years U.S. Senate

TOTALS: OBAMA 10, CLINTON 7

Free Falling Hillary Clinton

A parody of the new Hillary Clinton campaign Commercial, Free Fall.

Recover from Bush with Hope

Dave Winer writes, Find a shared vision, v2.0 (Scripting News):

"What a fantastic way to recover from Bush, who so completely represented the greed and arrogance and uglyness of America, to reinvent ourselves in the image of our best, in the image of hope."

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Obama Iraq War 2004

The Star pushes forward Bill Clinton's question about Obama's stand on the war in 2004 in this article, Is Obama or Clinton really for 'change'?:

"Of course, he opposed the Iraq war in 2002 when Clinton voted in favour, but he said in 2004 he wasn't sure how he would have voted had he been in the Senate."

No mention of Obama's response.

Researching the story some more to get Obama's take on it, I find that Reuters ignore's Obama's response too, Bill Clinton defends "fairy tale" remark on Obama:

Former President Bill Clinton said on Friday Barack Obama's bid to be president was no "fairy tale" and said his use of that phrase earlier in the week referred specifically to Obama's claims about his stance on the Iraq war.

The NY Times tries harder, Clintons Move to Tamp Down Criticism From Blacks About Recent Comments:

Mr. Clinton, in his radio interview, disputed any notion that he had been impugning Mr. Obama personally.

He said he was addressing a specific issue that, he believed, had not been given sufficient scrutiny: Mr. Obama’s position on Iraq and a statement by Mr. Obama in 2004 that he could not say how he would have voted on the war had he been in the Senate, though he did not believe the case for war had been made.

Mr. Clinton said the 2004 view was at odds with Mr. Obama’s position that he, unlike Mrs. Clinton, has always been against the war. “I said that story is a fairy tale,” Mr. Clinton said. “Now that doesn’t have anything to do with my respect for him as a person or his campaign. I have gone out of my way not to express any personal disrespect for him and his campaign.”

Mr. Obama’s campaign said Mr. Clinton was engaging in revisionist history about his record on the war.

It's hard to get the whole story.

The Too Many Candidate Blues

The Too Many Candidate Blues - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

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