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After 11 straight primary losses, it’s do-or-die for the Hilary Clinton campaign. In last week’s debate, she did. In three key rounds of policy boxing at Cleveland State University, the junior Senator from New York eloquently articulated the critical difference between the two proposed paths to universal healthcare coverage, defended a nuanced plan to navigate the dicey waters of NAFTA politics, and hammered home Senator Obama’s relative foreign policy inexperience as a fundamental handicap for a potential Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces. And still...
...those volunteers is Frank Thornton, a 36-year-old organizer for the SEIU, who spent a recent typically snowy, windy Cleveland afternoon knocking on union household doors in the old Italian neighborhood known as "the flats." "Well, I was for Hillary but Obama says a lot of things I like to hear so I'm still on the fence," said Sherry Rowland, waving Thornton into her living room. "I feel like they've both saying the same things, though...
...democratic debate in Cleveland was a clash of styles and a battle of ideas, but above all, it was an example of the benefits of corporate vertical integration in TV. Hillary Clinton used one NBC Universal property (Saturday Night Live) to attack another NBC Universal property (MSNBC, the debate host) for its treatment of her. Clinton--whose aides have fiercely criticized her coverage--complained to Brian Williams that she is repeatedly asked the first question at the debates, then referenced a Feb. 23 skit that showed debate moderators grilling Amy Poehler's Clinton while tossing softballs to Obama. "If anybody...
...reflected hipness, the debate skit served a Clinton campaign theme: that Big Media has grilled her ceaselessly while going wobbly over hot, charismatic young Obama. (An often true argument, if undercut by the fact that the point was made for her by giant Big Media institution SNL.) And Cleveland was the perfect place to press the attack, since MSNBC has been the campaign's chief target, from Chris Matthews' criticisms of Clinton on Hardball to host David Shuster's remark that she "pimped out" daughter Chelsea on the campaign trail...
...same day that Cunningham was dropping H-bombs on Cincinnati, Obama was at the Democratic debate in Cleveland, hastily accepting Hillary Clinton's assertion that she didn't order the leak of a picture of Obama wearing a turban in Kenya. "I think that's something we can set aside," he said. (Read "The Story of Barack Obama's Mother...