I dare you to not watch this and get outraged. Because not only is the story of the key witness for the prosecution completely discredited, but it’s clear that Karl Rove was behind a campaign to get the goods on the former Governor of Alabama.

TPM weighs in…
60 Minutes’ piece is an excellent distillation of the [...]

Well, they haven’t apologized yet, and maybe that’s because they’re doing an internal investigation, but this is really some sad stuff.
Basically, people from the Clinton camp have been circulating a picture of Obama dressed up in some Somalian garb. The implication is, once again, “Psst…he’s a Muslim.”
Politico has the story:
Obama campaign manager David [...]

Josh Marshall and crew run one of the best blogs on the internets, and kudos to everybody over there for recently winning a Polk.
From NY Times:
Of the many landmarks along a journalist’s career, two are among those that stand out: winning an award and making the government back down. Last week, Joshua Micah Marshall achieved [...]

Texas.

Ohio.

I’ve made this point before, but Yglesias makes it again…
If you win a primary on an “experience” argument, then you’d damn well better be more experienced than your general election opponent. McCain would make an experience argument against either opponent, so it’s much better to be the opponent with a record of statements aimed at [...]

Charisma aside, will Obama be able to argue “judgement” over “experience”?

It keeps going.
The right wing bloggers continue to accuse him of being wrong and even moderate bloggers suggest some level of naivete.
But let’s get the facts straight. Obama’s story checks out on the details. The troops were sent to Iraq instead of Afghanistan. Check. The Army captain (he was a lieutenant then) captured weapons [...]

Without Big Daddy Nader.
Discuss…

In a column about the difficulties the Republicans find themselves in, Mike Rosen asserts:
Two-thirds of voters may reliably support either Republican or Democratic candidates, but the other third goes either way. Most of them have no loyalty to parties, coalitions or philosophies. They just want nice outcomes and they want them now! And it’s they [...]

According to the European Commission Joint Research Center it is possible although not probable:
From Der Spiegel
As part of a project to improve control of nuclear materials, the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy set up a detailed simulation of the centrifuges currently used by Iran in the Natanz nuclear facility to enrich [...]

Quixotic or shrewd?
From TPM:
In a strongly-worded interview with Texas Monthly, Hillary leaves very little doubt that the campaign is preparing to get serious about getting the Florida and Michigan delegations seated.
“The people of those two states disregarded adamantly the DNC’s decision that they would not seat the delegates. They came out and voted,” Hillary told [...]

Here’s more “talk” from Obama…USASpending.gov:
Have you ever wanted to find more information on government spending? Have you ever wondered where federal contracting dollars and grant awards go? Or perhaps you would just like to know, as a citizen, what the government is really doing with your money. The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of [...]

Do any of you remember this moment in the debate last night?

A LOT has been made about this on the right wing blogs today about. I think this is mainly because many right wing blogs fancy themselves experts in anything that has to do with the military. So here’s a taste of the experts…
Flopping [...]

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For those who are counting such things, that’s 11 in a row…
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama has won the majority of the votes of U.S. Democrats living abroad, including those living in Canada, who voted overwhelmingly for the Illinois senator.
Obama won about 65 per cent of the Democrats Abroad global primary, in which Democrats living in [...]

I just got done watching the debate. Another wash, as usual and an additional debate in Wisconsin wouldn’t have changed the fact that most of us who’ve been following this election know exactly what these people are going to say before they say it.
So what does that leave us? The attacks of course. And Hillary [...]

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7:00 PM: Greetings! The debate kicks off an hour from now, live on CNN and CNN.com. It’s being broadcast from the LBJ Presidential Library at the University of Texas. Clinton will continue her assault on [...]

(h/t: Politico)

The Obama momentum continues.
First Texas:

Feb 21 ABC/WaPo – Clinton 48%, Obama 47%
Feb 21 Rasmussen – Clinton 47%, Obama 44%
Feb 21 IVR – Clinton 50%, Obama 45%
Then Ohio:
Feb 21 ABC/WaPo – Clinton 50%, Obama 43%
Remember, Hillary has to win these states big so she really needs some way to turn this around. Tonight’s debate could be [...]

Now that’s a load of dough!
From Boston.com:
His campaign reported to the Federal Election Commission yesterday that he loaned his campaign $6.95 million during January to reach that total.
The former Massachusetts governor’s total self-financing puts him ahead of Steve Forbes, the publisher who spent $38 million on his unsuccessful run for the GOP nomination in 1996, [...]