Sen. Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton join the nutroots in misconstruing Sen. Barack Obama’s comments about wanting to be to progressives what Ronald Reagan was to conservatives. Here’s Hill: I have to say, you know, my leading opponent the other day said that he thought the Republicans had better ideas than Democrats the last ten to fifteen years. That’s not the way I remember the last ten to fifteen years.

Via Nedra Pickler, “Obama Debuts New Act in Vegas“: LAS VEGAS (AP) – The White House campaign has brought a new act to Vegas. Barack Obama has stepped up his campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he’s trying to use humor to bring her down before this weekend’s Democratic presidential caucus. *** Obama began by recalling a moment in Tuesday night’s debate when he and his rivals were asked to

Ben Affleck made House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as giggly as a schoolgirl when he stopped by her D.C. office while researching a role for his upcoming political thriller, State of Play. And why not?  Affleck has run his career into the ground with a series of bad choices, while Pelosi has done the same with the approval rating for Congress.

LA Times headline: Clinton plays gaming card against Obama I remember the good old days, when it was just the race card and the gender card. But now that the cards are proliferating so quickly, we can work on building a political tarot deck. Please make your suggestions below. Nothing too curious or absurd for consideration.

Bill O’Reilly either downplays the numbers of or essentially denies the existence of homeless vets, according to rankled or frothing lefties, respectively.  This would seem to be an important distinction, though it’s causing some confusion. Many of them argue that someone who cares about the troops won’t argue with the numbers provided by the VA, ~200,000.  O’Reilly would probably say that the numbers are vastly inflated, as they serve as a stimulus

Rick Lowry points out that — despite the establishment media’s effort to portray Mike Huckabee’s campaign as a new populist force in the GOP — Huckabee has so far failed to gain meaningful support outside evangelical Christians.  This dynamic, particularly Huckabee’s difficulty with Catholic voters, was a topic of discussion of discussion here well before the Michigan primary.  That Huckabee does about as well with non-evangelicals as Ron Paul should be an

Thus shines a good deed in a weary world:  One of the two survivors of the San Francisco Zoo tiger attack that left a 17-year-old dead told the victim’s father that the three had yelled and waved at the animal while standing atop the railing of the tiger’s exhibit, police said in court documents filed Thursday. Paul Dhaliwal, 19, denied throwing anything into the enclosure or otherwise antagonizing the animal,

Excitable Andy seizes upon the indictment of former GOP congressman — and born-again Evangelical Christian — Mark Deli Siljander on Islamic terror-funding charges as another opportunity to equate conservative Christians with Islamist terrorists. At Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer addresses how detached from reality that claim is.  I would note that Sullivan’s argument resembles the Greenwaldian paranoid style of blogging, reeking of a moral arrogance quite at odds with someone purporting to preach

The Politico is among those reporting that a Spanish-language radio ad aired in Nevada by UNITE HERE — one of Sen. Barack Obama’s labor allies — is effectively accusing Sen. Hillary Clinton as being anti-Hispanic: (Translation) Hillary Clinton does not respect our people. Hillary Clinton supporters went to court to prevent working people to vote this Saturday — that is an embarrassment. Hillary Clinton supporters want to prevent people from

One of the nice things about my regular web gig is that I can rationalize going to see advance or midnight screenings of movies.  As some PW regulars have mentioned Cloverfield in various comment threads, I’m cross-posting an expanded version of my usual non-spoilery review here.  Indeed, I am putting most of it it”below the fold,” given the premium the movie’s makers put on secrecy. Cloverfield is — as the trailers