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Clinton-Obama Tussle

"Are there three people in this debate, not two?" -John Edwards

The feud between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is getting intense...so intense that it could cost the Democrats a White House victory. Clinton has called Obama a "frustrated" former "slumlord," while Obama has criticized Clinton's "different kind of politics" and "looseness with the facts." Whose side are you on?

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July 2008
- McCain's Elite Fundraisers Trump Obama's
  
  newser | USA Today | Jul 16, 08 5:45 PM CDT
  
  John McCain appears to be more reliant on funds bundled by elite supporters than Barack Obama, USA Today reports. More than half of the Republican candidate’s receipts, or more than $75 million, came from donations assembled by about 500 top supporters. In contrast, Obama’s top 500 pulled in about $50 million, about 17% of his total. More »
- 'Foolish Consistency' Mars Obama Iraq Plan
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 16, 08 4:45 PM CDT
  
  The editors of the Washington Post are rankled that Barack Obama has the same position on exiting Iraq now—“with bloodshed at its lowest level since the war began”—as he did a year ago, “at the war’s peak.” His "iron timetable" of a 16-month withdrawal, seemingly "indifferent to the war's outcome," is short-sighted and does not serve America's interests. More »
- All 3 Network Anchors Will Travel Abroad With Obama
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 16, 08 3:40 PM CDT
  
  Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric and Brian Williams will all be part of Barack Obama’s foreign trip that begins later this week, Howard Kurtz reveals in the Washington Post —as the Dem’s campaign impressively “draws the anchors halfway around the world by offering access.” The ABC, CBS and NBC anchors will interview the candidate on separate nights in different countries. More »
- McCain Again Banking on Reform Rep
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 16, 08 2:38 PM CDT
  
  After shying away from the issue for some time, John McCain is returning to his credentials as a crusader for campaign-finance reform, Politico notes. In an attempt to woo independent voters, the Republican is underlining his reputation as a Washington reformer, while coping with flak from small-government conservatives within his party—comparing himself to Teddy Roosevelt in the process. More »
- Obama Rebuts Times Race Story—With Paper's Own Poll
  
  newser | Talking Points Memo | Jul 16, 08 1:33 PM CDT
  
  The Obama campaign has fired back at a front-page New York Times story, which concludes from a poll today that the Dem isn’t healing racial division. The campaign uses stats from the paper's own survey, Talking Points Memo reports. The article “ignores…some straightforward points from their data,” an Obama memo charges. Perhaps chief among them, “More white voters say Obama cares about people like them, than say the same thing about McCain." More »
- Crist Could Be Key as Veep Pick
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 16, 08 12:59 PM CDT
  
  Florida’s importance in the general election can hardly be overstated, and his presumed ability to deliver it for the Republicans is at the heart of the case for popular governor Charlie Crist in the veepstakes, writes Chris Cillizza for the Washington Post . McCain may select a VP with more conservative bona fides, assuming he’ll take Florida with or without Crist, but that could be a mistake. More »
- Obama to Take Diplomatic Ace to Israel
  
  newser | Time | Jul 16, 08 12:13 PM CDT
  
  In a move that should put voters at ease who are skeptical of his stance on Israel and Iran, Barack Obama has added Dennis Ross to his Middle East entourage, Massimo Calabresi writes in Time . The well-known diplomat was lead Israeli-Palestinian negotiator under Clinton and the first Bush, and his presence on the trip will be “reassuring” to Israelis and American Jews who have been skeptical of the Dem. More »
- Obama Machine Knows What You Want
  
  newser | Salon | Jul 16, 08 10:21 AM CDT
  
  Although Barack Obama's campaign might have your email, you probably don’t know how much more data it's got on you, and how effectively it's using it to try to win in November. Salon looks into Obama’s incredible effort to glean powerful demographic information from voters—address, income, grocery store preference, and much, much more—to custom-tailor messages for a diverse electorate. More »
- Racial Divide Persists Despite Obama: Poll
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 16, 08 12:57 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama's often hailed "post-racial" run for the White House is, in fact, unfolding in an America still sharply divided by race, a New York Times /CBS News poll has discovered. The lives of most Americans are as racially segregated as they were 8 years ago, the poll says. Black and white Americans differed on almost every question on race relations—although both agreed America is ready for a black president. More »
- McCain Adopts Obama's Afghanistan Position
  
  newser | Huffington Post | Jul 15, 08 5:12 PM CDT
  
  John McCain suddenly switched both schedule and policy today, transforming a speech about jobs into one on Afghanistan, and echoing Barack Obama's argument for sending in new brigades. Obama has long said more troops are needed in Afghanistan, but McCain has repeatedly contended that NATO should pick up the slack, the Huffington Post reports. More »
- Equal Pay Is Obama's Women Card
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 15, 08 4:05 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama isn't talking about Roe v. Wade much before female audiences these days, Politico reports, focusing rather on a case seen to have undermined women's rights to equal pay. In highlighting Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tires rather than abortion, the Democrat is tapping into economic concerns while steering clear of an issue even pro-choice Americans can find distasteful. More »
- Two National Polls: Obama Up 9, 8
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Jul 15, 08 3:32 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama leads John McCain nationally in a new Quinnipiac poll, 50% to 41%, with huge advantages among female and young voters. The two split independents with 44% apiece, and McCain led 47%-44% among men and 49%-42% among white voters, the Boston Globe reports. Far more respondents said they were uncomfortable with a president aged 72 than with a black president. More »
- How Chicago Made Obama a Politician
  
  newser | New Yorker | Jul 15, 08 3:00 PM CDT
  
  Behind the New Yorker ’s fist-bumping Barack Obama cover, Ryan Lizza chronicles the Democrat’s political education in Chicago, where competing imperatives from the city’s fundraising elite, black urban base, and Daley-down political hierarchy taught him how to massage the system—and learn the kind of political evasion that opponents are beginning to detect. More »
- Pundits Cringe at 'Irony Deficiency' in Cartoon Flap
  
  newser | Salon | Jul 15, 08 1:28 PM CDT
  
  Many writers are scratching their heads at the incensed reactions provoked by the New Yorker ’s Obamas-as-terrorists cover. Here’s some rebuttal: Liberals “have come to regard all images or texts that contain negative stereotypes as too politically dangerous to run,” Gary Kamiya writes in Salon. “Not a single work of satire could ever pass this paranoid test” in which merely acknowledging racism “is to be racist.” More »
- Obama Campaign Insular, Arrogant, Hill Dems Complain
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 15, 08 12:43 PM CDT
  
  Some Congressional Democrats say they're not feeling the love from Barack Obama's campaign, Politico reports, with the candidate inattentive to broader election strategy and his camp uncommunicative on the day-to-day message blitz. "They think they know what’s right and everyone else is wrong on everything,” one senior staffer said “They are kind of insufferable at this point.” More »
- Voters Split on Candidates' Iraq Stances: Poll
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 15, 08 10:00 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama and John McCain have battled each other to a draw when it comes to Iraq, according to a new Washington Post -ABC News poll. Americans are split more or less down the middle on Iraq policy, with 50% supporting Obama’s withdrawal timetable and 49% backing McCain’s open-ended approach. In general, 47% trust McCain to handle Iraq, while 45% trust Obama. More »
- Obama: Swift End to Iraq War Will Strengthen Security
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 15, 08 8:39 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama will promise a swift end to the Iraq war in a major speech today, arguing that the ongoing conflict “distracts us from every threat that we face,” according to excerpts obtained by Politico. As president, Obama would take the fight to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. “The central front in the war on terror is not Iraq,” he says, “and it never was.” More »
- Late-Night Takes it Easy on Obama
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 15, 08 7:16 AM CDT
  
  John McCain has been skewered by late-night comics throughout the presidential campaign, but Barack Obama has escaped relatively unscathed. As this week's New Yorker cover flare-up made clear, satirists are struggling to find an angle on the Democratic nominee. The New York Times speaks to half a dozen late-night hosts and writers, who cite everything from fear of racism to their own favoritism to explain the silence. More »
- Obama to NAACP: 'Seize Responsibility'
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Jul 15, 08 4:44 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama stood firm on his message to blacks of personal responsibility in his speech to the NAACP convention yesterday, reports the Chicago Tribune . The candidate, accused by Jesse Jackson last week of "talking down to black people," revisited his theme of personal accountability while stressing that responsibility also must be demanded from Washington and Wall Street. More »
- Black Media Outlets Focus on Obama Ads
  
  newser | Advertising Age | Jul 14, 08 6:29 PM CDT
  
  The Barack Obama campaign hasn't spent much on advertising in African-American media, a trend many hope the candidate will reverse as he gears up for the general election, Advertising Age reports. "The audience has to be motivated to get out and vote," says a BET exec who cautions against taking the support of networks' viewers for granted. More »

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Democratic presidential hopefuls, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., pass during a break between the televised Republican and Democratic presidential debates at Saint Anselm... (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. greets a familiar face as she visits a polling place on primary day in Manchester, N.H. early Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise... (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shakes hands at a town hall meeting in Las Vegas Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., addresses the crowd at a town hall meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) (Associated Press)

Sen. Barack Obama speaks at the Sunday morning church service at Dr. Martin Luther King's Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Sunday. Obama has vowed to get tougher in his opposition to Bill and Hillary... (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., participate in a Democratic presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Monday, Jan. 21, 2008.... (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, listens as Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a Democratic presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Monday, Jan. 21,... (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference in Washington Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., addresses the current economic news and attacks Sen. Hillary Clinton's economic positions during a speech on the campus of Furman University... (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. gestures during a news conference in Washington Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. speaks at a campaign rally in Hackensack, N.J. Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. speaks to supporters at a campaign rally in Hackensack, N.J. Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) (Associated Press)

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