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Courtesy of Vikash Yadav, via SM |
From tonight’s Dem debate, still a carefully hedged non-denial by Hillary Clinton on the Obama turban smear:
Brian Williams: … Matt Drudge on his website said it came from a source inside the Clinton campaign. Can you say unequivocally here tonight it did not?
Hillary Clinton: Well, so far as I know, it did not. And I certainly know nothing about it and have made clear that that’s not the kind of behavior that I condone or expect from the people working in my campaign. But we have no evidence where it came from.
So I think that it’s clear what I would do if it were someone in my campaign, as I have in the past: asking people to leave my campaign if they do things that I disagree with. [Link]
Obama took the high road once again:
Obama: … I take Senator Clinton at her word that she knew nothing about the photo. So I think that’s something that we can set aside. [Link]
And if you think that’s parsing too fine, take a look at what Clinton said about Obama denouncing Louis Farrakhan’s support:
Clinton: … there’s a difference between denouncing and rejecting. And I think when it comes to this sort of, you know, inflammatory — I have no doubt that everything that Barack just said is absolutely sincere. But I just think, we’ve got to be even stronger…
Obama: … I don’t see a difference between denouncing and rejecting… But if the word “reject” Senator Clinton feels is stronger than the word “denounce,” then I’m happy to concede the point, and I would reject and denounce. [Link]
Any campaign operation has an email list for the entire campaign. Sending an email finding out whether a staffer disseminated the turban smear is trivial. And with the press hounding the campaign on this issue over the last 48 hours, they refuse to do so. It’s just inexplicable.
Jon Stewart tonight on Obama’s Somali-Kenyan garb:
It really doesn’t look that threatening… If that’s Al Qaeda, that’s their chess club at best. These guys don’t get any of the virgins.
on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008, 10:52 pm in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Politics, TV, Video clips › 
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Yes that was nitpicking, and so is this.
So far, only evidence that the Clinton campaign did this: Drudge.
here is cnns take on the debate
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/27/the-importance-of-being-able-to-keep-growing/
CNNs David Gergen writes “Hillary’s problem is that the man showing up against her is not the same one on that stage in New Hampshire. Gone is the tentativeness and the stumbles, the hems and the haws. No, Obama has grown in this campaign into a polished, thoughtful, confident debater — and let there be no doubt, a man who is also substantive and subtle. He is the single most improved candidate of the entire campaign. In the last two debates, he has easily held his own against her. When she goes after him to excess, he has even learned how to look more presidential than she does”
just this sentence from obama Obama: … I take Senator Clinton at her word that she knew nothing about the photo. So I think that’s something that we can set aside.
this sentence shows his maturity and makes him probably look more presidential than she does trying to push away trivial issues and ready to discuss real issues..