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By Alex Koppelman The New York Times has a similar take. It says Clinton "has reservations about accepting" the job. The paper sources its story to an unnamed "adviser to Mrs. Clinton who is familiar with her thinking." The source "described Mrs. Clinton as flattered by President-elect Barack Obama’s intere...

By Eric Zorn To those who now warn angry Democrats not to let lingering acrimony destroy them, as happened with the Republicans during their extended orgy of Clinton hatred, I ask, "Oh, you mean the Republicans who now control the House and the Senate and the presidency, the majority of state governm...

By Alex Carnevale Some of those on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign alienated reporters by calling at 11 p.m. — as soon as their stories hit the Web — and demanding deletions of unflattering adjectives. Obama spokesmen have sometimes counterattacked too lightly, because Mr. Obama pl...

Nov. 2, 2008 (Gawker Media delivered by Newstex) -- In his review today of the Atlantic Theater Company's production political comedy Farragut North ” soon to be a film from George Clooney ” NYT reporter/heartthrob Patrick Healy can't resist getting in a few jabs about his many months cov...

By Stacey A. Ward, Esq. At the end of the 1992 presidential campaign, there was a flurry of news reports about the possibility that the media had favored Bill Clinton over incumbent George H.W. Bush, and that the media's coverage of the race helped Clinton win.

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By Media Matters for America At the end of the 1992 presidential campaign, there was a flurry of news reports about the possibility that the media had favored Bill Clinton over incumbent George H.W. Bush, and that the media's coverage of the race helped Clinton win.

Related articles from Media Matters for America, Events from My.BarackObama.com.

At the end of the 1992 presidential campaign, there was a flurry of news reports about the possibility that the media had favored Bill Clinton over incumbent George H.W. Bush, and that the media's coverage of the race helped Clinton win.

Related articles from Events from My.BarackObama.com, electionbid2008.com.

Now, who opposed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries? Obama supporters…slammed as “eggheads” and African Americans: People who believe this can put their money where their mouth is: Intrade: Republicans 86.0, Republicans 15.8

By Doug Mataconis Ronald Book, one of the biggest lobbyists in Florida who represents clients as diverse as the University of Miami and Bell South, raised $700,000 for President Clinton in recent years and contributed the maximum to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign earlier this year.

By tcavanaugh@reason.com (Tim Cavanaugh) Standard convention boilerplate, but it carries a strong message: If even Bill Clinton, the gold standard of "third way" politicians, is trading in classic Democratic Party populism, it really is over for the what used to be called New Democrats.

By Steve Soto And those pissed-off Obama supporters think he is a slug now, right? The poll provides some suggestive evidence that the decline may chiefly result from more negative assessments from Obama supporters. In the October 2007 poll -- the last reading before the primaries began -- 87% of all D...

Consider New York magazine: "Obama Agrees to Roll-Call Vote for Clinton. Does That Make Him a Sissy?" When The New York Times reported on Clinton's pending nomination, it made no reference to historical precedents. Neither did The Boston Globe, nor The Wall Street Journal, nor The Washin...

No one is saying he has to choose Clinton, though clearly I believe with Hillary we’d increase our chances of winning by a significant margin. Strike that, I think we’d win in a walk, even though many of us believed Hillary was never really getting the serious consideration from the Obama ca...

By Katie Fretland by Amanda Erickson Play hard. Hillary Clinton-style hard. That is the message of a new National Review piece urging presumptive Republican Presidential nominee John McCain (Ariz.) to hit Obama aggressively instead of trying to run a "politically virtuous" campaign. Who...

By Keith Berner Poor" Clintons? Yeah, at one time maybe, when Bill was earning in the low-$30Ks as governor of Arkansas, perhaps. But (we found out this spring) the post-presidency period has been kind to Bill and Hill, raising them to elite status, with combined wealth of nearly $110 million.

By Mark Silva by Mark Silva Was Sen. Hillary Clinton a victim of sexism in her failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination? Some of her supporters say so. Then again, some will say that Sen. Barack Obama has suffered from racial prejudice...

By Jim Oliphant John Dickerson of Slate in a column today argued that if Obama is the truly the presumptive nominee, then Clinton was doing major damage to the party's chances in November by making voters in this crucial swing state feel alienated and angry toward the Democratic Party.

By Katharine Jose Barack Obama has stopped talking about Hillary Clinton. The New York Times editorial board thinks Clinton should stop fighting to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida. The New York Times editorial board thinks David Paterson "has lost his zeal" for reform.

Campaigning a few miles from each other Friday, Barack Obama trained his eye on November and the GOP, while Hillary Rodham Clinton battled for her political life, trying to hang on a bit longer in hopes of denying him the Democratic presidential nomination. [...]

By blacktygrrrr She deflected when O’Reilly pointed out that Bill Clinton did nothing for 8 years on energy policy. O’Reilly asked Hillary if she was more polarizing than Obama, and if he was nicer. Hillary was very tough on this question, announcing that she has been bipartisan, however toughness is requ...

By Simon Jenkins If in ten days time the Democrats of Indiana join those of Ohio and Pennsylvania in rejecting Obama, then white working-class America will have spoken. "We won where we have to win," says Clinton. If this in turn panics undecided delegates into backing her, it proves that an older and more co...

By Paul Jenkins Were Hillary Clinton the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have had this thing wrapped up in, say, Iowa, or a couple of weeks after that. Her inability to dispatch a presidential neophyte such as Barack Obama in a Democratic primary is precisely because, af...

By eriposte Yay! Time for an update to The Clinton Rules and The Obama Rules! If Sen. Clinton does something unapproved by the "netroots", it reflects badly on her and it's bad news, period (especially if it ends up playing to her advantage). If Sen. Obama does it, it may actually be good for him!

By Carpetbagger It’s hardly unusual to think Hillary Clinton would appear on a popular, national cable talk show the night before a major primary, but her appearance on MSNBC’s “Countdown” was at least somewhat unexpected. For one thing, the Clinton campaign has done little to hide its disgust with the n...

By The Huffington Post News Editors SEN. HILLARY CLINTON ON MSNBC'S "COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" NEW YORK - April 21, 2008 - Following is a transcript of Sen. Hillary Clinton on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" tonight: SEN. HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm great. Thanks a lot, Keith.

By Katharine Jose A national Newsweek poll shows Barack Obama leading Hillary Clinton, 54-35. The New York Times, with melancholy, chronicles the defection of leading Democrats from Clinton to Obama. Chelsea Clinton is still courting the gay vote. The Pope blessed the World Trade Center site.

By Miles Mogulescu For four days now Barack Obama has stood all but alone, valiantly defending himself against charges of elitism from multi-millionaires Bill and Hillary Clinton and dozens of their surrogates, untold numbers of Republicans, and the bulk of the media.

By Seth Grahame-Smith Hillary pounced on the remarks, calling them "elitist" and "out of touch." Now, we'll get to those remarks in a second. But first we need to address the epic hypocrisy of Hillary Rodham Clinton calling another human being "out of touch" with middle class Americans. I'd like to start by sharin...

By Katharine Jose The Washington Post editorial board doesn't think Clinton should go. Chelsea Clinton says her mom will be a better president than her dad. Joe Lieberman says John McCain comes closer than either Obama or Clinton to fulfilling the legacy of John F. Kennedy.

By eriposte When she was first lady of Arkansas, Hillary Clinton did not just organize tea parties (contrary to what passes now for “common knowledge”). She had heard of a Bangladeshi economist who had introduced a great idea to help people out of poverty in Bangladesh and she thought his ideas might h...

By Bernard Chapin Although suspect, Zernike buys its legitimacy board, starch, and sinker. Indeed, she points out that it caused Chelsea Clinton to finally “get” feminism. She could not believe that the media reacted with amusement rather than outrage over this unseemly request of her mother. Frankly Che...

By Katharine Jose Clinton supporter and Senator Bill Nelson of Florida supports a mail-in primary. [Orlando Sentinel] Bill Clinton is talking about a joint ticket. [Political Wire] Buffalo Pundit says Jack David doesn't deserve the support of the Democrats. [WNY Media]

Okay, so we know Obama doesn’t care about Florida, because he knows he’ll lose that state to McCain, and if there’s a re-vote he’ll also lose it to Clinton. That would mean yet another huge swing state in her corner, which Obama can’t afford because it further makes the case that Clinton’s pa...

A senior foreign policy advsior to Barack Obama had to apologize for calling Hillary Clinton a "monster" during an interview with a Scottish newspaper. Sen. Chuck Schumer is working to win Democrats a filibuster-proof majority of 60 seats in that chamber - something that hasn't been seen...

By Tommy Christopher Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Democrats, Featured Stories, Primaries, 2008 PresidentNewly minted pundit and strategist-for-hire Karl Rove has some new advice for Hillary Clinton on how to defeat Barack Obama:The big development to watch is not the rise of the "Obamicans" -- Republ...

By Carpetbagger On the bus ferrying a group of reporters to an appearance by Senator Barack Obama at Ohio State University on Wednesday, Lee Cowan, the NBC reporter assigned to the campaign, was asked the media question of the week: Had journalists like himself been going easier on Mr. Obama than his oppon...

By Carpetbagger Towards the very end of last night’s debate in Cleveland, Tim Russert asked Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama if, looking back, there were any voted they’d like to take back. Clinton, coming closer to conceding a mistake than I think I’ve heard before, pointed to her 2002 vote on the Iraq AUM...

By John Koblin Three days later, she wrote, “[Hillary Clinton’s] argument against Obama now boils down to an argument against idealism, which is probably the lowest and most unlikely point to which any Clinton could sink.” By the way, they are pretty much all for Barack Obama.

By Steve Kornacki If next January brings an Obama presidency, Ms. Clinton's best option in the political arena would probably rest in the Senate. Harry Reid turns 70 this year. Ms. Clinton could set her sights on succeeding him and becoming the first female Senate Majority Leader.

By Adam Begley I like to think that in time Shelby Steele will hear Mr. Obama’s voice and recognize him as an individual who is, like Nelson Mandela, exactly what he seems to be. Mr. Steele may even become an Obama guy—anything’s possible. He could even give up on the slow-poke book industry and publish a seque...

By Justin Thyme By Rich Lowry For two and a half months now, Democrats have been voting in primaries and meeting in caucuses to select their nominee for president. The last gasp of Hillary Clinton’s campaign could be telling them, in effect, that they shouldn’t have bothered. Clinton trails Barack Obama a...

By eriposte As if trying to answer just that question, Ted Kennedy said at a recent rally that Barack Obama is the one to break the deadlock in Washington. Huh? How? If that's the case, why hasn't he done so as senator? What sort of across the aisle magic unity has he manifested over the past 3 years? It play...

By Jason Horowitz And we’re seeing the ripple effects around the world. This week, many countries saw their largest one-day stock market declines since September 11, 2001. And it’s time we finally had a president who worked as hard for you as you work for America every single day.

By Carpetbagger This probably seems silly at first blush. Indeed, it probably is silly upon further examination. But one of the underlying criticisms of the Obama campaign is that Obama, to borrow John Edwards’ word, is “nice.” Clinton, in contrast, is saying she knows the Republican Attack/Smear Machin...

By Jason Horowitz “We think we have momentum in New Hampshire,” said Plouffe. “I think anything from neutral to momentum is going to provide us with a good outcome in New Hampshire. All I know is that if the New Hampshire primary were held tonight, we’d win.”

By eriposte Compare this to the House Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe, which is having constant hearings -- or to the Senate Subcommittee's work before Obama became Chair -- or to a comparative commitment of Hillary Clinton on a Subcommittee she chairs, and the zero hearing detail is disc...

By Simon Barrett Kathleen Willey should be a name that you remember, she was part and parcel of the Monica Lewinsky scandal with Bill Clinton. Having kept a low profile for over 10 years Kathleen Willey finally made the decision to put into print her side of the story. With Hillary a contender for the democrat...

By eriposte O]nce again, Senator Clinton supported giving President Bush both the benefit of the doubt and a blank check on a critical foreign policy issue. Barack Obama just has a fundamentally different view. “It’s non-binding, so it has no policy implications, let alone legal implications,” sai...

We sent Gawker videographer and resident evil genius Richard Blakeley to cover Sen. Hillary Clinton’s 60th birthday bash at New York’s Beacon Theater last night. Security goons wouldn’t allow video cameras inside, so Blakeley was forced to use words to explain the bovine press process,...

By Steve Young I've written in the past that the secret political weapon available to presidential candidates is SATIRE. This week, Hillary Clinton proved my point. Her "Reveal Her Song" Soprano's parody didn't have to be good. Neither did her performance. And the...