HUFFINGTON POST: In dueling conference calls with reporters, the Obama campaign presented an electoral landscape that could prove all but impossible for Clinton to overcome. The Clinton camp responded with defiance, suggesting that Obama was not qualified for the position of commander-in-chief and stressing that they, in fact, were positioned to eke out a delegate victory. Obama’s campaign manager projected that his boss emerged from Tuesday’s elections in Wisconsin and Hawaii with a net gain of 18 pledged delegates, padding his overall lead over Clinton to 159. “In order for them to erode this pledged delegate lead,” he added, Clinton […]

WASHINGTON POST: Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) decisively defeated Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) in today’s Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary, scoring a ninth consecutive victory over the New York senator. Obama was also expected to win caucuses in Hawaii, the state in which he spent more than a decade of his youth. The Obama victory puts more pressure on Clinton, who now must win in Ohio and Texas on March 4 to sustain her campaign for the presidential nomination. On the Republican side, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) defeated former governor Mike Huckabee (Ark.) in the Wisconsin presidential primary. McCain’s convincing victory […]

THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE: John McCain’s reputation as a maverick is no recent contrivance. The senator first captured the media spotlight in September 1983, not long after he’d been elected to his first term in the House, when he voted against President Reagan’s decision to put American troops in Lebanon as part of a multinational “peacekeeping” force. One of 27 Republicans to break with the White House, the freshman McCain made a floor speech that reads as if it might have been written yesterday — by Ron Paul: The fundamental question is: What is the United States’ interest in Lebanon IRAQ? […]

FINANCIAL TIMES: US banks have been quietly borrowing massive amounts of money from the Federal Reserve in recent weeks by using a new measure the Fed introduced two months ago to help ease the credit crunch. The use of the Fed’s Term Auction Facility, which allows banks to borrow at relatively attractive rates against a wider range of their assets than previously permitted, saw borrowing of nearly $50bn of one-month funds from the Fed by mid-February. US officials say the trend shows that financial authorities have become far more adept at channelling liquidity into the banking system to alleviate financial stress, […]

This is another set of devastatingly sly anti-Hillary ads from the always dead-on Lee Stranahan, the guy who brought you the legendary Hillary 1984 Apple spoof. These ads cleverly masquerade as the pro-Hillary ads similar to the ones the Clinton campaign is running in Wisconsin that attempt to bate the Obama campaign into yet ANOTHER debate. Because, the 22 debates they’ve already had were just not enough, especially when you are short on cash and debates mean free air time. Heh-heh. You check out more of his work here. It is our considered opinion that he is without a doubt […]

From the clever folks that brought you Billionaires For Bush.

From Howie Klein’s Down With Tyranny: “I think that the Republicans, from top to bottom, are genuinely trying to change America into Amerika with a ‘k.’ They want America to be a place where ordinary workers cannot organize, where everybody tries to undercut everybody else in the labor market, and where the people in charge are the people who can best tap into war profiteering profits… These people want to change America and change it to make it something that Eisenhower warned us about half a century ago. They want everything in America to be under the control — and […]

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This Myspace bulletin went out to Friends of Hillary this morning, but by this afternoon it had mysteriously disappeared: “This is the kind of sexism that needs to be stopped. Sexism that is masked as some kind of joke or meant to be light hearted. I don’t find this funny and I don’t know how anyone could wear a shirt like this and call themselves a Democrat. Sadly Sexism is still alive in politics.” — Hillary For President [Hat tip to CITIZEN MOM] RELATED: COLUMBUS, Ohio — The man who served as national manager of former President Clinton’s 1992 campaign […]