What Clinton wishes she could say  —  Why, ask many Democrats and media commentators, won't Hillary Rodham Clinton see the long odds against her, put her own ambitions aside, and gracefully embrace Barack Obama as the inevitable Democratic nominee?  —  Here is why: She and Bill Clinton …

Forget It.  It's Chinatown... Big Lizards Breaking Bombshell News!  —  The most iconic photograph from the riots attending the torch-bearing ceremony, the one that has every tongue wagging, is surely this one: A Tibetan supporter violently assaulting a wheelchair-bound woman carrying the torch through Paris.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright criticizes media at Eugene Pincham funeral  —  The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., former pastor of Barack Obama's Trinity United Church of Christ, has kept a low profile since some of his sermons landed him in the middle of a political firestorm.

Hillary Clinton's Booze Adviser  —  While I have enjoyed writing columns here at The Moderate Voice in the short time since Joe Gandelman invited me, I feel it only fair to give warning to both the Editor and our readers that I may be moving on to a new position which could stop me from doing this.

“Dr. Phil” Staff Bails Out Girl Jailed for YouTube Beating  —  The TV talk show Dr. Phil McGraw confirmed on Saturday the fact that its staff bailed out of Florida jail one of the girls involved in the violent video posted on YouTube.  The video depicted several teen girls beating one of their classmates while filming her.

Carter Will Not Endorse Until The Convention  —  ABC News' Mary Bruce Reports: Former President Jimmy Carter confirmed in an exclusive “This Week” interview with George Stephanopoulos that he will not be endorsing any time soon.  “The only thing I know is that, I have not made an endorsement …

Gallup Daily: Obama Maintains Solid Democratic Lead  —  Obama, Clinton hold slim advantages in presidential election preferences  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking for April 10-12 shows Barack Obama continuing to hold a solid lead over Hillary Clinton in national Democratic voters' support …

Joking students called on the carpet  —  The pair at Colorado College are rebuked over a feminist-newsletter parody seen as threatening.  —  A satirical response to a feminist publication at Colorado College has landed the college and two of its students in the middle of a fierce debate over freedom of speech.

Dancing fools  —  I was very sorry to be missing this, as I'm out of DC for the weekend, but not as sorry as I am now—someone just got arrested.  —  The background: twenty people were at the Jefferson Memorial, dancing to the private groove of their own iPods so as not to disturb anyone.

Cliff Schecter Pwns John McCain  —  I've been worried for a while that it's going to be difficult to get any traction on John McCain.  The press love him, and he's managed to push the “maverick moderate” image so far out there in the public consciousness that even people on progressive blogs …

Baucus staffers in lobbyist pipeline  —  HELENA - Since 1996, one-fifth of U.S. Sen. Max Baucus' highest-paid staff members have left their jobs to become lobbyists, usually for industries regulated by the powerful committee that Baucus heads, a Missoulian State Bureau analysis shows.

FOR IT, BEFORE SHE WAS AGAINST IT  —  Theda Skocpol writes in ...

'I don't even know who Petraeus and Crocker are.'  —  The Washington Post writes that “few Iraqis paid much attention” to the testimonies of Gen. David Petraeus and Amb.  Ryan Crocker: … “I don't even know who Petraeus and Crocker are,” said 31-year old shop owner Yasser Kadhoum al-Khafaji.