Female Superdelegates Backing Obama Find Their ‘Sisterhood’ Questioned — FoxNews

Analysis: McCain’s Centrist Credentials Ranked Equally By Disparate Sources — FoxNews

Clinton, Obama Spar Over Vulnerability to McCain — Bloomberg — Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama agreed they could each lead their party to victory in November and then spent the rest of a debate last night sparring over who is more vulnerable to Republican attacks.

Obama Looks To Turn Debate Into a Victory — WAPO — A day after undergoing the toughest grilling of the campaign, Sen. Barack Obama attempted to get back on the offensive Thursday, arguing that his candidacy offers a clear departure from the attack politics and trivial issues that he said have dominated presidential campaigns and led to gridlock in Washington.

Ratings, Criticism Big For ABC Presidential Debate — Pat Dollard — Notice in the part about comments to ABC that the Obamaniacs are livid that he should be treated as a Presidential candidate, and not as a Man Above Questioning.

How Obama Fell to Earth — NYT — Back in Iowa, Barack Obama promised to be something new — an unconventional leader who would confront unpleasant truths, embrace novel policies and unify the country. If he had knocked Hillary Clinton out in New Hampshire and entered general-election mode early, this enormously thoughtful man would have become that. But he did not knock her out, and the aura around Obama has changed. Furiously courting Democratic primary voters and apparently exhausted, Obama has emerged as a more conventional politician and a more orthodox liberal. He sprinkled his debate performance Wednesday night with the sorts of fibs, evasions and hypocrisies that are the stuff of conventional politics.

Guilt by association or a verdict on judgment? — HotAir — Barack Obama has spent the last year explaining why his lack of experience is an asset for his candidacy for the White House. Experience doesn’t make up for judgment, he has told rapturous audiences. His judgment outweighs the slightly longer experience of Hillary Clinton and the vastly superior experience of John McCain because he won’t be obligated by decades of connections in the Beltway environment.

Iran prefers Obama — JihadWatch — Like Hamas, they know a new Carter when they see one. “Iran Avoids Support for US Presidential Hopefuls,” from the Fars News Agency

Moore Award Nominee — Andrew Sullivan — ‘I want to punch Clinton the person, not Clinton the woman.’

Obama’s strange defense of William Ayers — HotAir — Barack Obama has decided to push back against criticisms of his association with former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, but the arguments he offers sound less than convincing. Rather than chalk it up to political naivete and issue a non-apology apology, Obama has decided to argue that he can’t be expected to consider the actions of people that took place in his childhood, and that Ayers only was bad for a few days.

John McCain releases his tax returns — but not hers — LATimes — John McCain has just released details from his tax returns from 2006 and 2007, and possibly the most interesting tidbit is that he did not release his wife’s returns — and McCain married into wealth.