So we do pay attention to your concerns, or try to, about technical matters and the troll problem, as well as spam comments, which are more of a problem on other Time blogs. I forwarded Trifecta’s Terrapin (sorry! T names!) plea from the last comment thread to our guide to blog matters, and he responded: [...]

Greg Sargent over at TPM has the transcript of remarks Barack Obama just made slamming Hillary Clinton, a continuation of the tiff that began during Monday night’s Youtube debate. So, reality check: Substantively, this isn’t about very much at all. Both candidates would go about–finally!–talking to the rogue states in the same way: cautiously, but [...]

The Obama campaign is pushing back hard against initial reports that Obama yesterday touted his foreign policy expertise as being the best of any candidate, in either party. Obama’s people contend that the junior senator from Illinois was referring to his life experience, as someone who’s both lived overseas and had family in foreign countries. [...]

My colleague Mark Halperin tells me that CNN has taken the clever step of getting the Florida Republican Party and Governor Charlie Crist to co-sponsor the CNN/YouTube Republican debate…Which will make it hard for the candidates to chicken out. Can’t wait.

Small Wars Journal and assorted military bloggers are reporting that H.R. McMaster, one of the smartest and most creative colonels in the U.S. Army, has been passed over for promotion to brigadier general–a second time, I’m told by friends of the colonel. McMaster, who wrote an excellent book about the U.S. Army’s failure in Vietnam, [...]