After distancing itself from his comments about Obama’s drug use, the Clinton campaign has decided to distance itself from him. Here’s a statement from Bill Shaheen that was just released by the campaign:

“I would like to reiterate that I deeply regret my comments yesterday and say again that they were in no way authorized by Senator

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So there seems to be a consensus now in the press about the state and direction of the Democratic race, judging by the saturation level of stories telling us about Hillary Clinton’s dire straits. With the Democratic contenders debating for the last time before the Iowa caucuses as I write (I’m on a train, so not watching), it seems like …

Maybe we should re-think the CW that Hillary Clinton isn’t as inspiring as Barack Obama. How else to explain the recent rash of over zealous junior staffers?

I do think it’s interesting that the post which prompted the sock-puppetry was one of those “policy” thingees people are always demanding.

For those of you that watch the SwampCast just to pick on my hair, a filler episode:

Did that happen? Apparently there’s a Halperin report card on it, so I guess so… There’s a Dem one this afternoon, the last one before the caucuses. (Yay!) Yesterday’s was bashed as boring, and as avoiding the most important headlines of the day (the NIE, Iraq). Today’s might be as well — but I’m told that the DMR debates are watched …

Ambinder has a smart take on the “oh-we-wouldn’t-use-Obama’s-drug-use-against-him-but-those-big-bad-Republicans-might!” strategy that was sent up the Clinton flag pole (that’s what she said, heh-heh) yesterday:

By publicly raising some as-yet unanswered questions about Obama’s use of cocaine as a teenager, Billy Shaheen virtually

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Another election season dawns …

One thing you learn from covering campaigns is to be pretty, uh, flexible in your travel expectations. In the last cycle, there was the hotel that the Dean campaign stayed in in South Carolina where the breakfast buffet featured … Twinkies. And the one in Dubuque where the Kerry campaign dumped the …

When I first saw this in my mail box, I was really excited — and a little surprised — to see what, exactly, Biden might have to say about today’s big Huckism (“Mormons believe Jesus and the Devil are brothers”). I mean, Joe Biden, expert on foreign policy AND theology!

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