Hillary turns fire on media  —  PORTLAND, Ore. - Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is increasingly aiming its punches not at her front-running opponent Barack Obama, but at the media.  —  On the campaign trail, in a new ad and in her meetings with donors and superdelegates …

Obama an appeaser?  How dare you  —  “That's enough.  That - that's a show of disrespect to me.”  —  That was Barack Obama, a couple of weeks back, explaining why he was casting the Rev. Jeremiah Wright into outer darkness.  It's one thing to wallow in “adolescent grandiosity” …

NARAL reeling from Obama endorsement  —  With the clock running down on a long-fought primary, NARAL Pro-Choice America leaders sent state affiliates reeling this week by endorsing Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.  It was seen as a gratuitous slap in the face to a longtime ally …

Obama Response To Bush McCain “Appeasement” Charge Shows Big Changes  —  When Senator Barack Obama responded to President George Bush and presumptive GOP Presidential nominee Senator John McCain's suggestion that he would indulge in the “appeasement” of terrorists, it underscored several lessons …

Rove slams Obama over ‘bitter’ comments, flag pin  —  (CNN) — Karl Rove launched a wide-ranging attack on Barack Obama during a speech at the National Rifle Association Convention Friday, blasting him for his recent comments calling some small town American's “bitter,” and suggesting …

A Conspiracy So Lunatic...  Only 60 Minutes could fall for it.  —  Jill Simpson is an unusual woman.  A lawyer, she has scratched out an uncertain living in DeKalb County, Alabama.  Fellow DeKalb County lawyers describe her as “a very strange person” who “lives in her own world.”

Hillary Clinton: It's the Map Not the Math  —  Jeralyn Merritt recounts a blogger call with Senator Hillary Clinton: … This is simultaneously ridiculous and sublime.  —  On the one hand, it's absurd beyond words to count Michigan, in which only she was on the ballot, in any “popular vote” count.

A week after his 57-state remark, Obama puts himself in the wrong city  —  The nightmare comes in different versions.  You show up for the first day of class, but it's really the final exam.  You're introduced to speak to a large audience and totally forget what you're supposed to say.

Harkin: McCain too ‘military’  —  Washington, D.C. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain's family background as the son and grandson of admirals has given him a worldview shaped by the military, “and he has a hard time thinking beyond that,” Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ia., said Friday.

Report: Kennedy rushed to hospital  —  Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, one of the longest serving Democrats in the Senate, has been rushed to the hospital with “stroke like symptoms,” according to cable networks and wire services.  —  Kennedy, 76, was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital and is being treated there in Boston.

U.N. racism investigator to visit U.S. from Monday  —  GENEVA (Reuters) - A special U.N. human rights investigator will visit the United States this month to probe racism, an issue that has forced its way into the race to secure the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.