memeorandum: McCain / Bush Press Conference (Kombiz Lavasany/Democratic National …)

6:00 PM ET, March 5, 2008

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Clinton Hints At Sharing Ticket With Obama — NEW YORK (CBS) ― Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton hinted at the possibility of a Democratic “dream ticket” with Sen. Barack Obama. — Speaking on “The Early Show” on CBS, Clinton said “that may be where this is headed, but of course we have to decide who is on the top of the ticket.”

Discussion: The Opinionator, Donklephant, Wake up America, Buck Naked Politics, culturekitchen, Taylor Marsh, Macsmind, Connecting.the.Dots and Vox Popoli

Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:

Obama: ‘Premature’ to talk joint ticket — Speaking to reporters on his plane before leaving San Antonio for Chicago, Sen. Barack Obama hinted at taking a tougher line against Clinton in the coming weeks, telling reporters that she must back up her experience argument with details, my colleague Carrie Budoff Brown reports.

Discussion: The Page, Political Machine, Roger L. Simon, The Carpetbagger Report, Hot Air and The Debatable Land

Adam Nagourney / New York Times:

Clinton Says Her Campaign Has ‘Turned a Corner’ — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton defeated Senator Barack Obama in the Ohio and Texas primaries on Tuesday, ending a string of defeats and allowing her to soldier on in a Democratic presidential nomination race that now seems unlikely to end any time soon.

Discussion: DownWithTyranny!, USA Today, The Politico, Fact Checker, Washington Post, Daily Kos, The Swamp, NY Daily News, Boston Globe, The Strata-Sphere, The Moderate Voice, Taylor Marsh, Balloon Juice, John McCain 2008, Simply Left Behind and The Carpetbagger Report

Mike Allen / The Politico:
Clinton sees ticket with Obama

Discussion: Comments from Left Field, Wonkette, Preemptive Karma, TownHall Blog, Wake up America and PunditGuy

Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft: Working the SNL Refs

Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
When you get hit with a kitchen sink, it hurts

Discussion: Hot Air, The Swamp, About.com US Politics, Los Angeles Times, JammieWearingFool and Left in the West

Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
Clinton Wins, Obama's Still Ahead; What's Next?

Discussion: Donklephant and Scared Monkeys

Satyam / Think Progress:

Bush: McCain ‘Is Not Going To Change’ My Foreign Policy — At the White House today, President Bush threw his support behind Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). In a press conference after a private lunch, a reporter asked the duo how McCain would “make the case that you're going to provide the change that the voters seem to want.”

Discussion: Big Brass Blog, The Newshoggers, Middle Earth Journal, The Seminal and The Carpetbagger Report

James Fallows:

More on Clinton, Obama, and the OODA loop — Updated, below: — About two weeks ago I mentioned Chuck Spinney's analysis of the Clinton-Obama race, from the perspective of “Fourth Generation Warfare” and the famous John Boyd “OODA Loop.” (Details on those concepts in the original post.)

Discussion: The Politico, Washington Monthly, The Carpetbagger Report and Prairie Weather

Amanda / Think Progress:
Bush tap dances while waiting for McCain.

Discussion: The Trail, MoJoBlog, MSNBC and Shakespeare's Sister

Jill Zuckman / The Swamp:
A little soft shoe for McCain as Bush cools his heels

Discussion: The Politico, Firedoglake and The Page

Kombiz Lavasany / Democratic National Committee:
McCain / Bush Press Conference

Discussion: Crooks and Liars

Hillary Clinton / CNN:

Obama camp: What's Clinton hiding' — (CNN) - Barack Obama's campaign took fresh aim at Hillary Clinton Wednesday for refusing to release her tax returns, asking in a memo circulated to reporters, “What does Clinton have to hide?” — “In the face of her unwillingness to release her tax returns …

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Riehl World View, Redstate, The Page and PoliGazette

Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Camp, Getting Down To Business, Slams Hillary On Tax Returns

Discussion: Spin Cycle and The Carpetbagger Report

Ben Smith / The Politico:
Clinton's lesson: Attacking Obama works

Discussion: TalkLeft, Slate, The Garlic, Northman's Fury, The Page, Spin Cycle and Comments from Left Field

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs: Sparring on disclosure — The rancor is starting early …

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:

CHILL OUT....The hot topic of conversation right now is the proposition that a long, drawn-out Democratic primary runs the risk of destroying the party and putting John McCain in the White House. So for the good of the country, Hillary should withdraw. — Now, this might be true.

Discussion: Ross Douthat, The Newshoggers, The Corner, Brendan Nyhan, Blogometer, Megan McArdle, JustOneMinute, The New Republic, The Daily Dish, Lawyers, Guns and Money and democracyarsenal.org

Matthew Yglesias:
Party Destruction — Does the prospect of a long …

Discussion: The New Republic

David Weigel / Reason Magazine:

It's Rush Wot Won It — In the days running up to these last primaries, Rush Limbaugh told his national audience of conservatives to vote in the Democratic race. … It turned into a pretty hot meme in Texas, and on Monday, while Rush was out, guest host Mark Davis scored an interview with Bill Clinton.

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, Outside The Beltway, The Impolitic, Wake up America, The Daily Dish and Houston Chronicle

Tom Bevan / Real Clear Politics:

Was It Rush? — I've been doing a number of radio interview this morning and the question keeps popping up: did Rush Limbaugh put Hillary over the top in Texas? Some quick, back-of-the-envelope math based on the exits shows: — Republicans represented 9% of the electorate in Texas.

Discussion: Hot Air, Power Line, Washington Post, The Radio Equalizer, alicublog, Below The Beltway and Don Surber

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:

VITRIOL....Atrios: … This has sort of taken me by surprise too. I'm reminded of the old saying that the smaller the stakes, the more vicious the battle. Obama and Clinton are obviously different in some important ways, but overall there just aren't any huge gaps between them, either in ideology or governing theory.

Discussion: TalkLeft

Atrios / Eschaton:

Nasty — Sadly, I agree with Chris that this is going to get nastier. The campaigns and candidates themselves may not get nasty, but I get the sense that supporters of the various candidates are getting angrier at the other camp. Sure a lot of this is just relatively harmless virtual …

Discussion: Open Left

Gallup:

Gallup Daily: Clinton 48%, Obama 44% — Based on polling conducted March 2-4, 2008 — PRINCETON, NJ — Hillary Clinton has moved ahead of Barack Obama in national Democratic nomination preferences, 48% to 44%, in polling conducted Sunday through Tuesday.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, The Strata-Sphere, Open Left, Below The Beltway, MyDD, Donklephant and TPM Election Central

Gateway Pundit:

CAPTURED FARC COMPUTERS NAME BARACK OBAMA (Updated) — Captured FARC documents name Obama — Dead terrorist Raul Reyes had information that FARC was meeting “gringos” about Obama. — The computers captured this past weekend by Colombian soldiers at the campsite of FARC #2 Raul Reyes contained loads …

Discussion: The Jawa Report, Fausta's blog, The Huffington Post, Atlas Shrugs, The Campaign Spot and Counterterrorism Blog

Frank James / Baltimore Sun:

Fla. and Mich. guvs: Seat our delegates — Forget the fact that the state legislatures in both Michigan and Florida were forewarned that if they moved up their states' primary dates their states would be penalized by the Democratic and Republican National Committees.

Discussion: Marc Ambinder, Ben Smith's Blogs, TPM Election Central, Below The Beltway and BobKrumm.com

Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:

Here's A First Look At Third-Party Group's Ad Against McCain — We've just obtained a copy of the new ad that the 501c4 issue-advocacy group Campaign to Defend America is running against John McCain in Ohio and Pennsylvania. — It says that McCain offers more of the “McSame as Bush,” …