memeorandum: The Most Important 2 minutes of the Democratic Debate (Jack M./Ace of Spades HQ)

9:25 PM ET, October 31, 2007

Top Items:

Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:

A Day Later, Clinton Embraces Spitzer's License Effort — John Edwards, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama during last night's debate. (Photo: Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times) — A day after she appeared to struggle to give her views on the subject, Hillary Rodham Clinton …

Discussion: Horses Mouth, theGarance.com, TalkLeft, Balloon Juice, The Page and Wake up America

Roger Simon / The Politico:

Obama, Edwards attack; Clinton bombs debate — PHILADELPHIA - - We now know something that we did not know before: When Hillary Clinton has a bad night, she really has a bad night. — In a debate against six Democratic opponents at Drexel University here Tuesday, Clinton gave the worst performance of her entire campaign.

Tom Curry / MSNBC:

Lieberman at issue in Democrats' Iran clash — Connecticut maverick backs Clinton, criticizes Edwards on Iran policy — WASHINGTON - His name only came up once in passing during Tuesday night's presidential debate, but in a way, Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Democratic presidential contender himself in 2004, was very much present.

Discussion: The Democratic Daily and The Atlantic Online

New York Times:
The Democratic Debate on MSNBC

Discussion: American Prospect, The Atlantic Online, MyDD, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Monthly, Flopping Aces, The Carpetbagger Report, New York Post, CNN, TalkLeft, Wake up America, The Fix and Angry Bear

HillaryClinton.com:
The Politics Of Pile-On

Discussion: Spin Cycle, Blogs for Bush and MSNBC

MSNBC:
Oct. 30 Democratic debate transcript

Discussion: Salon, Corrente, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, BlueBloggin, Chris Dodd National Blog, Reason Magazine, democracyarsenal.org, Redstate, Open Left, About.com Liberal Politics, MyDD, Lonewacko, Stop The ACLU and The Carpetbagger Report

Taylor Marsh:
Russert Leads The Boys in All Out Clinton Assault

Discussion: Firedoglake, TalkLeft, Comments from Left Field, Sister Toldjah, The Atlantic Online, TownHall Blog, The Carpetbagger Report, Tom Watson and MSNBC

Jack M. / Ace of Spades HQ:
The Most Important 2 minutes of the Democratic Debate

Discussion: Hot Air, The Influence Peddler, Doug Ross and Macsmind

Matthew Dolan / Baltimore Sun:

Father of slain Marine wins case against funeral protesters — Pa. man awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages — Albert Snyder of York, Pa., the father of a Westminster Marine who was killed in Iraq, today won his case in a Baltimore federal court against members of Topeka …

Discussion: The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Captain's Quarters, Hot Air, On Deadline, Wake up America, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Belmont Club, Gateway Pundit, Say Anything and The Dread Pundit Bluto

Michelle Malkin:
Breaking: Father of slain Marine wins case against foul Phelps family

Discussion: Right Voices and Stop The ACLU

Alex Dominguez / Associated Press: Jury awards father $11M in funeral case

Paul Waldman / American Prospect:

Tim Russert: Stop the Inanity — Russert passes for a "tough" interviewer by adopting a confrontational pose rather than asking genuinely challenging questions. Which is why he's a terrible moderator for our presidential debates. — Last month, near the end of the Democratic presidential debate …

Discussion: PBS, Ezra Klein, Eschaton, BitsBlog and The Huffington Post

Army Wife / ArmyWifeToddlerMom:

Nickelodeon is trying to brainwash your children in the morning, or a leftist primer — My Husband sent me this link this morning. Please watch this, in its entirety. It is imperative that you SEE what Nickelodeon is showing at 5:00am. — NICKELODEON IS BRAINWASHING YOUR CHILD

Discussion: Stop The ACLU, BLACKFIVE, NewsBusters.org and Ian Schwartz

Michelle Malkin:

Nickelodeon goes moonbatty — As you know, I've got two kids under 8. We let them watch a few shows on the children's cable TV network, Nickelodeon-Jimmy Neutron, Spongebob, Avatar. Earlier this spring, we even took them to the Nick Hotel in Florida. We enjoyed it, but I've had my reservations.

Discussion: Liberty Street

Ynetnews:

Soldier flees interrogation by exposing breasts — Officer loses concentration after soldier takes her shirt off in front of him — An IDF soldier fled an interrogation room by exposing her breasts to a stunned officer. — The soldier was interrogated at the Biranit army base …

Aussie Dave / Israellycool:
Gaza Strippers — Introducing our most diabolical weapon yet: Zionist Death Booty.TM

Discussion: Hot Air

Pajamas Media:

Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma — So I was down in DC this past weekend and happened to run into a well-connected media person, who told me flatly, unequivocally that "everyone knows" The LA Times was sitting on a story, all wrapped up and ready …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Cliff Schecter, The Moderate Voice, Don Surber, Hot Air and Big Head DC

Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:

Private Note to Bush from Hagel Calls For Direct, Unconditional, Comprehensive Talks with Iran — I have just secured a private letter — not yet publicly released — from Senator Chuck Hagel to President Bush and copied to Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates, and Stephen Hadley.

Discussion: Think Progress, United States Central Command, FP Passport and Eunomia

John Cole / Balloon Juice:

Say Hello to the Newest Member of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy — I had meant to re-register independent (or as it is known here in West Virginia, "No Party Affiliation") for the past two weeks after I had finally had enough of the bulls**t during the Graeme Frost escapade, but never got around to it …

Discussion: Death, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Buck Naked Politics and Daily Kos

James Chapman / Daily Mail:

Christmas should be 'downgraded' to help race relations says Labour think tank — Christmas should be downgraded in favour of festivals from other religions to improve race relations, says an explosive report. — Labour's favourite think-tank says that because it would be hard …

Discussion: Don Surber, Hot Air, JammieWearingFool and Blue Crab Boulevard

Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:

Rice says goodbye to Hughes — From NBC's Libby Leist — Secretary Condoleezza Rice said goodbye to Karen Hughes this morning at the State Department, ending Hughes' two-and-a-half years in charge of America's public diplomacy. Hughes will officially be off the job in mid-December.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, The Seminal and The Washington Note

Anne Gearan / Associated Press:
Longtime Bush adviser leaving State

Discussion: The Swamp, CNN, On Deadline, All Spin Zone, Firedoglake, Think Progress, Hullabaloo, michellemalkin.com, Commentary, The Impolitic, Weekly Standard, Buck Naked Politics, cab drollery, Middle Earth Journal and Outside The Beltway

Kaj Larsen / The Huffington Post:

A Lesson For Mukasey: Why I Had Myself Water-Boarded — As a journalist for Current TV, a former military officer, and a student of public policy I have been involved in the debate about the War on Terror from the frontlines in Afghanistan to the policy discussions of academia.

Discussion: Riehl World View

Military.com:

Navy Destroyer Battles Pirates — Sailors from the Norfolk-based destroyer James E. Williams boarded a North Korean merchant ship that had been hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia, while two other Navy vessels tailed a pirated Japanese ship in the same region.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Captain's Quarters, Hot Air, Op For, Defense Tech and Don Surber