South Carolina Democratic Primary Results with 3% Reporting

Barack Obama
10,326
52%

Hillary Clinton
6,271
32%

John Edwards
3,154
16%

Barack Obama Takes Commanding Lead in South Carolina Democratic Primary

Democratic Debate: "I Just Want to Be Clear About This"

"I can't tell who I'm running against, sometimes." Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton referring to her husband, Bill Clinton.

And, John Edwards asks, "How many kids are going to get an education from this?" regarding the "squabbling" between Barack and Hillary. "The American people deserve to know what we are going to do" about the problems in our society and economy, I presume.

Edwards also says, "African American families are more vulnerable to predatory lenders and payday lenders...we need a national predatory lender law."

Barack says, "This is not new...we have a history in this country of preying upon people who are financially strapped..."

"We have to have consistency in how we vote," Barack says.

"Does you plan cover the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country?" Barack says, "It does not." Then says the important question is: "How are we going to get this (health-care reform) done?" Ooh, he implies that when health insurance is made mandatory (as Hillary says it must become), the money will be taken forcefully from our paychecks!

Edwards says, "Everybody is worthy of health care."

Barack says, "If we are not making it affordable enough, and you mandate that families have to buy it then they have to choose between that and being fined for not having health insurance."

Hillary says, "I'm looking to bring our troops home when I am President. There is no military solution...I will put the Iraqi government on notice..."

"I want to be as careful in getting out as we were getting in," says Barack regarding troop withdrawals from Iraq. "We are seeing Al-Qaida stronger than ever since 2001."

Hillary says that Bush is trying to establish permanent bases in Iraq without approval of Congress.

"People want to move beyond our divisions..." says Barack. "Race is a factor in our society, there's no doubt that this peaks interest... but I don't want to sell the American people short."

Making Nice: The Democratics in Nevada Debate

Watching the Nevada Democratic Party debates among Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards this evening...ah, they are making nice with each other. They are apologizing to each other over and over again by virtue of the questions being asked: In the light of this or that, do you regret saying this or that about this or that candidate? Oh yes, definitely, says Obama. Clinton says, "clearly we must be clear."

Asked to verbalize their individual strength and weakness, Obama and Edwards answered candidly but Clinton side-stepped the question and talked about the presidency, not about herself.

Oops, Obama is going to tell us "how I am going to end climate change." What a great mis-speak as of course no one can end climate change.

Colbert Given the Key to the City of Columbia, South Carolina

John Edwards' Campaign

A journalism professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is accusing aides of John Edwards, a former senator from North Carolina, of demanding that he remove from YouTube a student report critical of Mr. Edwards’s Democratic presidential campaign — and of threatening to block the university’s access to Mr. Edwards and the campaign headquarters near campus.

Mr. Edwards’s campaign officials said they did not level any such threat during what were clearly heated discussions with the professor and the student over her approach and over the central question in her report: Why has a campaign focused on poverty based its headquarters in an affluent part of Chapel Hill?