memeorandum: Obama: The World's Candidate (Robin Koerner/The Moderate Voice)

6:35 AM ET, January 5, 2008

Top Items:

Bill Clinton takes a swipe at media — Bill Clinton voiced his abiding anger at the media's coverage of him and his wife in Durham, N.H., today, and suggested that media bias will force Clinton to go negative on Barack Obama. — He also expressed his frustration that his wife is perceived …

Discussion: Sister Toldjah, Blue Crab Boulevard, Taylor Marsh, The Gun Toting Liberal™, Donklephant, Scared Monkeys, PoliGazette and THE LIBERAL JOURNAL

New York Times:

A Campaign Retools to Seek Second Clinton Comeback — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been in career-threatening scrapes before, but never quite like the one they face in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, when nothing less than their would-be dynasty will be on the line.

Discussion: BAGnewsNotes and No Left Turns

Dan Balz / The Trail:

Will N.H. Be Obama Territory, Too? — NASHUA, N.H. — There was a sense of urgency in Hillary Clinton's voice when she opened her first post-Iowa rally in an airplane hangar early Friday morning — and a look of concern on the face of the man who introduced her, former President Bill Clinton.

John F. Harris / The Politico:
Both Clintons' legacies may rest on N.H.

Discussion: The Fix

Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:
Clinton reaches for the right argument

Discussion: Wonkette, skippy the bush kangaroo, Liberal Values and QandO

Washington Wire:
Iowa Isn't That Important, Clinton Staffers Say

Discussion: The New Republic, IowaPolitics.com Caucus …, D-Day, Donklephant, A NEWT ONE, PunditGuy, Los Angeles Times and Wonkette

Jay Newton-Small / TIME: Swampland:

Hillary Booed at NH Democratic Party Dinner — If the New Hampshire Democratic Party's 100 Club dinner is any bell weather - Barack Obama will handily win here. When Obama, the dinner's last speaker, took the stage the crowd surged forward chanting “O-bam-a” and “Fired Up, Ready to Go!”

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, protein wisdom, 2008Central.net, QandO, Washington Wire, Newsweek, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Blue Crab Boulevard and PunditGuy

DTM / Matthew Yglesias:

Clinton: Obama's Too Liberal — Hillary Clinton's campaign seems determined to convince Barack Obama's detractors in the blogosphere that he is so a liberal after all: — Progressive record? Heaven forbid! I thought he didn't have experience. — The Tom Edsall article I got …

Discussion: TalkLeft, Associated Press, Cogitamus, D-Day, The RBC, Open Left and Daily Kos

Joe Klein / Time:
Obama's Historic Victory

Discussion: The Democratic Daily, Daily Kos, TalkLeft and TIME: Swampland

Dean Barnett / Weekly Standard:
Democratic Voters to Nutroots: Take a Long Virtual Walk Off a Short Virtual Pier

Discussion: Liberty Pundit and JunkYardBlog

Matt Stoller / Open Left: Turnout Thoughts — I am still gathering my thoughts on Obama's win.

Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:

Andy Olmsted — Andrew Olmsted, who also posted here as G'Kar, was killed yesterday in Iraq. Andy gave me a post to publish in the event of his death; the last revisions to it were made in July. — Andy was a wonderful person: decent, honorable, generous, principled, courageous, sweet, and very funny.

Andrew Olmsted:

Final Post — “I am leaving this message for you because it appears I must leave sooner than I intended. I would have preferred to say this in person, but since I cannot, let me say it here." — G'Kar, Babylon 5 — “Only the dead have seen the end of war." — Plato*

Discussion: Gawker, The Jawa Report, American Street, Environmental Republican and Doug Ross

David Montero / Rocky Mountain News:

Rocky blogger Major Andrew Olmsted killed in Iraq — He was the first casualty for 2008 in Iraq. And a small part of Maj. Andrew Olmsted likely would've chuckled at that fact. It would be droll and play into his sense of self-deprecation. — But for everyone else, the news would be devastating.

Discussion: AMERICAN DIGEST and Unqualified Offerings

Bill Gertz / Washington Times:

Inside the Ring — Inside the Ring — Coughlin sacked — Stephen Coughlin, the Pentagon specialist on Islamic law and Islamist extremism, has been fired from his position on the military's Joint Staff. The action followed a report in this space last week revealing opposition to his work …

Discussion: The Sundries Shack, The Jawa Report, Debbie Schlussel and Israpundit

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

WTF? — Okay, I could come up with a few good snarky lines on this one. But I'll settle for someone just explaining to me what the hell Mike Huckabee's talking about. — TPMer Eric Kleefeld and I were chatting this evening about whether everyone's underestimating Huckabee's chances in this race.

Discussion: protein wisdom, The RBC and PoliGazette

The Corner:

Obama: Ecstasy & Agony — This is just a late Friday night prediction. But after reading this regrettable excess from Ezra Klein as well as all of the more reasonable but nonetheless hopeful, proud, idealistic and sincere sentiments of pride and well-wishing for Obama as the first serious …

Discussion: Daily Pundit

The Corner:
Heavens Above — The American Prospect's Ezra Klein:

Discussion: Hot Air, JustOneMinute, The Heretik, protein wisdom and Sadly, No!

Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:

Justices to Decide if Rape of a Child Merits Death — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether the Constitution allows the death penalty for the rape of a child. — The justices acted only three days before a scheduled argument in another important death penalty case …

Discussion: Stop The ACLU

Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog: Court to rule on death penalty for child rape

The Corner:

Helping Huck — I am informed that Dick Morris and Newt Gingrich are helping Huckabee behind the scenes. Morris has been everywhere today promoting Huckabee.

Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Hot Air

Joseph A. Palermo / The Huffington Post:

Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater — Forty years ago, in 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy started his campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, he made a point to travel to what today would be considered “red” states. Five days after he announced his candidacy, he visited Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Vox Popoli