Sarah Palin Takes on Pajama-Wearing Bloggers Posting Gossip from Their Parents’ Basements (video)

In this 3-part videotaped interview with Greta Van Susteren, Sarah Palin calmly and without rancor sets the record straight on all those “relevant” issues the MSM and the blogosphere hyped so vociferously during the campaign: her clothes, the supposed banning of Harry Potter from the Wasilla library, and the mindlessly offensive questions raised about the legitimacy of her son Trig.

Palin also has a few words for the traditional feminists who felt compelled to bash her from the first day she stepped onto the national stage. The mother of five and arguably the most popular governor in the country has the audacity to suggest that she and her feminist critics could possibly find common ground.

And by the way, the accusations by anonymous campaign staffers that Palin didn’t know Africa was a continent and couldn’t name the members of NAFTA have been completely debunked.

Obama Struck by Heavy Piece of Porcelain (Clinton's Kitchen Sink)

Photo credits: Associated Press

If the “undecideds” in the Democratic primaries need any help today in choosing between Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama, I recommend reading Dana Milbank in this morning’s Washington Post. Milbank offers coverage of Obama’s news conference yesterday at a veterans’ facility in San Antonio as evidence the media has finally gotten around to asking him tough questions:

“It took many months and the mockery of "Saturday Night Live" to make it happen, but the lumbering beast that is the press corps finally roused itself from its slumber Monday and greeted Barack Obama with a menacing growl.

“The day before primaries in Ohio and Texas that could effectively seal the Democratic presidential nomination for him, a smiling Obama strode out to a news conference at a veterans facility here. But the grin was quickly replaced by the surprised look of a man bitten by his own dog.”

After providing details of media questions to Obama about the Rezko trial that began Monday, his campaign’s secret meeting with a Canadian official, and his losing the Jewish vote, Milbank reports:

“Obama responded with the classic phrases of a politician in trouble. ‘That was the information that I had at the time. . . . Those charges are completely unrelated to me. . . . I have said that that was a mistake. . . . The fact pattern remains unchanged.’

“When those failed, Obama tried another approach. ‘We're running late,’ the candidate said, and then he disappeared behind a curtain.

“Before he beat his hasty retreat, however, Obama found time to assign blame for the tough questions suddenly coming his way. 'The Clinton campaign has been true to its word in employing a 'kitchen sink' strategy,’ he protested. ‘There are, what, three or four things a day?’

“Spoken like a man who had just been hit on the head with a heavy piece of porcelain.”

To read Milbank’s column in its entirety, go here.

Oops! Canadian Memo Exposes Obama Camp’s “Wink-Wink”

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Despite the Obama campaigns earlier denials of contacting the Candadian government about NAFTA in the run-up to the Ohio debate, Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press reports today:

“SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Barack Obama's senior economic policy adviser privately told Canadian officials to view the debate in Ohio over trade as "political positioning," according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press that was rejected by the adviser and held up Monday as evidence of doublespeak by rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.

“The memo is the first documentation to emerge publicly out of the meeting between the adviser, Austan Goolsbee, and officials with the Canadian consulate in Chicago, but Goolsbee said it misinterprets what he told them. The memo was written by Joseph DeMora, who works for the consulate and attended the meeting.”

In her report, Pickler notes:

“NAFTA is widely opposed in economically depressed Ohio, which holds its presidential primary Tuesday and is a key battleground between Obama and Clinton. Both candidates said in a debate in Cleveland last week that they would renegotiate the trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico, which is the largest trading partnership in the world, and threaten to pull out if it doesn't include more protections for workers and the environment.”

The Clinton campaign is on top of the latest from Canada: Pikler cites a statement from Hillary Clinton on Monday that Obama's campaign gave the Canadians "the old wink-wink."

Clinton added: "I don't think people should come to Ohio and tell the people of Ohio one thing and then have your campaign tell a foreign government something else behind closed doors. That's the kind of difference between talk and action and that I've been pointing out in this campaign." To read more, go here.

UPDATE:

According to an article in ABC News today, Barak Obama may have a role to play in the Rezko trial:

"Sen. Barack Obama's name could well come up in the trial of his longtime friend and accused Illinois fixer Tony Rezko, according to Chicago lawyers following the case.

"'I think it's realistic that that could happen during the trial,' said Zach Fardon, a former Chicago federal prosecutor who was part of the team that convicted former Illinois Gov. George Ryan on corruption charges.

"Jury selection for Rezko, accused of bribing public officials and taking kickbacks, began this morning in a Chicago federal courtroom."

To read more, go here.