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- The new Clinton ad Kate mentioned is a big deal. It essentially calls Obama unfit to be commander in chief, but I really don't get what the difference between the two is. Clinton may have had experience with legislation during Bill's presidency, but she certainly wasn't ordering air strikes or whatever. The Obama campaign responds by pointing out that the one time Clinton did make a hard choice on a national security issue she pretty much blew it.
- There's a lot of confusion about whether or not the Clinton campaign is threatening to sue over the complicated primary/caucus process in Texas, but it seems like there was a threat as part of an attempt to gain some kind of agreement with the sate party--though what exactly the agreement is about is unclear.
- Ari Berman explores Howard Dean's influence on the Democratic Party and Obama's campaign.
- Naomi Klein writes a column in The Nation criticizing Obama for not being clear that there's nothing wrong with being a Muslim which prompts the Nation's own Ari Melber to point out that he's done exactly that many times. You might say it's a Nation divided against itself.
- John McCain personally accepts the support of a man who is just as bigoted against Catholics as Farrakhan is against Jews.
- Finally, just for fun, Brave New Films has a hilarious song about McCain and the war, will.i.am has another song about Obama (with an even more bizarre mix of celebrities including Landry and Tyra from Friday Night Lights), and Kenyan elders may fine Clinton several cows for the alleged circulation of a photo of Obama in Somali tribal garb.
--Sam Boyd
