OBAMA FINGERS A ‘GOTCHA’ DEBATE  —  Sen. Barack Obama was on the stump today in Raleigh, N.C., the day after his debate in Philadelphia with Sen. Hillary Clinton.  Have a look at his body language when he spoke of the sort of debate it was — a “gotcha” fest — and about Clinton being “in her element.”

Barack and the bomber  —  If we're judged by those with whom we associate, here's a question:  —  Would you rather be associated with a '60s radical who plotted to bomb the Pentagon and to this day believes, as he said a few years ago, “I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough …

Hillary Clinton ‘rescues’ Colbert Report  —  PHILADELPHIA—Unsuccessful in his attempt to become a presidential candidate in his native South Carolina, comedy show host Stephen Colbert was forced to rely on the  —  “expertise” of Sen. Hillary Clinton during a taping of tonight's “Colbert Report.”

Aliza Shvarts: Abortion Goo Girl Rants Against the “Patriarchal Heteronormative”  —  [Note: Yale now claims this was all a hoax.  See below.]  —  [Note: Yale Advisor removes video from YouTube.  See below.]  —  VIDEO UPDATE: Like cockroaches running for the den when the lights go on …

Yale: Student's Art Project Only ‘Creative Fiction’  —  A Yale student's bizarre art project in which she claimed to have repeatedly impregnated and induced abortions in herself is a work of “creative fiction,” the university said in a statement this afternoon.

Democratic Operative Takes on McCain's Age  —  Despite a recent promise from Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean not to make Sen. John McCain's age — he turns 72 in August — an issue in the presidential campaign, a senior Democratic operative has started a new website designed to draw attention to just that fact.

You Gotta Get (Get) That (That) Dirt Off Your Shoulder  —  Starting at 2:20, bear witness to perhaps the coolest subliminal cultural reference in the history of American politics.  —  Brooklyn, stand up!