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Video: All three presidential candidates unfit for Dancing With the Stars

By Molly Priesmeyer | 05.27.08 | 1:44 pm

Remember the Hamster Dance? The only redeeming thing about that awful web hit was that it became an actual album misspelled as Hampster Dance, a somehow acceptable dumbing down of culture far more hilarious and oodles more collectible than Fergie’s…

McCain, Clinton agree on energy plan: Here, take 30 bucks

By Dan Haugen | 04.30.08 | 11:15 am

In today’s New York Times, Thomas Friedman calls Hillary’s and McCain’s “gas-tax holiday” proposal what it really is: money laundering masquerading as energy policy. Both candidates say they want to temporarily suspend the…

Clinton takes Pennsylvania 55-45

By Tom Elko | 04.23.08 | 12:05 am

After five contentious weeks of campaigning, Sen. Hillary Clinton bested Sen. Barack Obama by nearly 10 points in yesterday’s Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Polls leading up to the race had been erratic, with some showing Clinton ahead by as…

MinMon Audio: A Pennsylvania primer

By Tom Elko | 04.22.08 | 1:00 am

Noah Kunin of TheUpTake.org has been in Pennsylvania for the last week talking to voters and trailing candidates. In a preview to tonight’s pivotal primary, he describes a hard-fought contest between two camps that are stretched…

Face off: Clinton and Obama get ugly on Etsy.com

By Molly Priesmeyer | 03.18.08 | 10:12 am

The crafters over at Etsy.com, the site for all things handmade, have been busy making over the presidential candidates. Here, you can find Hillary Clinton’s simpering mug in a beaded, thumb-sized pillow, as Warhol-inspired

Bicycles, LOLcats and Obamemes

By Paul Schmelzer | 03.11.08 | 1:17 pm

We’ve seen memes aplenty in the ’08 presidential race,  from the anti-Hillary Apple/1984 ad of last year to “Obama girl” on YouTube. But in recent weeks the trend has taken a…

Ferraro: If Obama was white he “wouldn’t be in this position”

By Paul Schmelzer | 03.11.08 | 8:56 am

A historic woman in politics and a member of Hillary Clinton’s finance committee, 1984 VP candidate Geraldine Ferraro blames a sexist media for the former first lady’s campaign struggles, and tells both Fox’s John Gibson and Daily Breeze staff writer…

Super Tuesday as seen from Thailand: Audio interview with Suthichai Yoon

By Paul Schmelzer | 02.07.08 | 11:51 pm

When  I woke up on Super Tuesday, primary results were already coming in, and a prominent national media expert was on TV discussing the outcomes that were unfolding.

No, I didn’t sleep in: I’m in…

Bush’s Clintonian Parsing

By Eric Black | 12.07.07 | 8:36 am

Bush_Cheney.jpgAs I see people compiling lists of things President Bush and Vice President Cheney said about Iran — after they had been alerted by their intelligence chief of new evidence that an Iranian nuclear weapons program had halted…

Democratic Presidential Debate Liveblog

By Jeff Fecke | 04.26.07 | 6:02 pm

I will be liveblogging the Democratic debate tonight from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM.  Enjoy!


So to wrap up, my quick letter-grade take:

Clinton: B-plus.  If people notice the tearing up, then maybe lower.  But better than expected.…