This election primary on the Democratic Party side is essentially a tie right now.  Real Clear Politics show that Hillary and Barak hover at 10,000,000 votes each. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/...

Next Tuesday Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont voters must think about who will beat McCain.  Who will be impervious to attacks on patriotism, who will fight and who will prevail against McCain in the general election.  

Clearly both candidates are strong but I think the nod goes to Hillary – because taking a clear look at Iowa, where Obama’s ascent began, Iowa Primary wins are no bellweather for the White House (see below) and despite weeks of pro-Obama hype – yesterday Obama polled behind Hillary in a McCain matchup.    Time to come to grips with the strength of a Clinton candidacy.

With readers primarily from Summit, Medina, Portage, Stark and Wayne counties in Ohio and linked in to Ohio.com - the Akron Beacon Journal gave a strong endorsement to Hillary today.

What did it?  The CNN debate.  In earning this Hillary herself has accomplished the Herculean (Hill-culean?!) task of fighting back the negative pressure from the combined forces of the odd but newly-found bedfellows of Daily Kos and Right Wing Corporate media to give a dashing and substantive performance.  I'd certainly rather have her with me in my darkest hour in a foxhole, or in my darkest hour passing progressive policy (! and those hours will be dark in the uphill progressive climb), than any other Democrat running for office - or McCain for that matter.

We at the dailykos, and many in the blogosphere in general, once upon a time recognized that the Right Wing Corporate Media (RWCM) - was THE problem in stopping the election of Democrats.  As documented amply by the likes of Paul Krugman and George Lakoff (to name a few), since the Civil Rights Movement, the right wing has been pouring money into conservative 'think' tanks, and the training and cloning of attack dogs (e.g., Coulter, Limbaugh) for talk shows and newspapers.  We on the left were caught out by this as early as the 1990s.  The media destruction of Gore and Kerry, and our own favorite - Howard Dean - by the RWCM, are three viciously painful reminders.

Obama needs to step up to the plate on behalf of the Democratic Party.

Four articles on Wonkette's novel or by Wonkette in about 5 days??  WTF?  This just doesn't make any sense to me.  So much free publicity.  Seems just another indication that this paper is rudderless. Are they trying to get her to join the op-ed page?  Why?  She seems completely redundant with Dowd?  OK - maybe a little more current but this is a majorly cheesy fawning on their part.  I'd rather see them court Swopa, Georgia10, Booman or Dood Abides.  I don't dislike Wonkette or anything (sheesh, at least they're not courting Drudge - they have Drudge-jr in Tierney), but hey, I'm not blown away either.  

It just seems so damn awkward.  Like bad internet dating.

Isikoff's recent article for MSNBC argues that Rove is essentially in the clear.  I find that it doesn't make sense at all.

Here's the full story
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9865842/site/newsweek/

Please excuse my lame formatting - running off to work.

From Dan Barry at the New York Times today:

"That a corpse lies on Union Street may not shock....What is remarkable is that on a downtown street in a major American city, a corpse can decompose for days, like carrion, and that is acceptable."

The story of the White House press conferences must become the MSM's inroad to the larger story that Bush is not in charge and takes no responsibility.