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Clinton rescues Obama from blunder

March 2, 2008

ROBERT NOVAK novakevans@aol.com

Supporters of Sen. Barack Obama concede that Sen. Hillary Clinton's aggressiveness rescued him from a serious blunder in last Tuesday's presidential debate at Cleveland, when he hesitated at rejecting a lavish endorsement of him by black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan.

Obama deplored Farrakhan's record of anti-Semitic comments but indicated he could not reject his backing -- a horrible gaffe for a rookie presidential candidate. But Clinton could not let it rest at that and burst in to say that she had rejected backing for her 2000 Senate candidacy in New York from the Independence Party, some of whose leaders had taken anti-Semitic positions. That gave Obama a chance to assert that, considering her example, he indeed would reject Farrakhan.

A footnote: Supporters feel Obama did err in repeatedly referring to Farrakhan with the honorific of ''minister,'' instead of calling him Mr. Farrakhan or just plain Farrakhan.

At Dallas County Republicans' Reagan Day Dinner, reluctant support of McCain

Presidential candidate John McCain wasn't the first choice, or even the second, third or fourth choice, of many of the 500 or so die-hard Republicans gathered Saturday night for the Dallas County party's annual Reagan Day Dinner

Republicans reluctantly back McCain, say he's better than a Democrat. Sounds like a repeat of the Bob Dole Campaign.

Oh man!

Huckleberry Hound thinks he can win in GOP convention

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Posted: 02 Mar 2008 12:00 AM CST

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GOP Woes Could Reverberate In 2010

By Amy Walter, NationalJournal.com © National Journal Group Inc. Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008 Watching Minority Leader John Boehner implore his House colleagues to get off their "dead asses" and help raise money for the struggling National Republican Congressional Committee is a helpful reminder of the importance of morale in determining the balance of power in Congress. When all is said and done, the number of seats lost by the Republican Party will be determined not by how strong Democrats are in November, but by how many of the GOP's own members decide to throw in the towel. The fact that Republicans already have more open seats to defend today (29) than Democrats had in 1996 (28) suggests that they see little hope for regaining their majority in 2008.

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