MLK Day, Clintons, Obama, And Dead Fish

The early returns from the Martin Luther King Day debate in South Carolina are in.   Mrs. Clinton and Barack Obama attack each other with dead fish.    Wolf  Blitzer and John Edwards are also present, somewhere.

Partial transcript, via Ben Smith,

Bob Krum:

In the presidential straw poll at the 2006 Southern Republican Leadership Conference held in Memphis I cast a write-in vote for Fred Thompson. That might make me the first person in America to have voted for Fred for

I mean, not like this stuff wasn’t expected. I’ve been talking about this kind of thing for years. But it does give us an idea of the kind of nonsense we’re in for: From the London Times:

AMERICA’S favourite television

• Seen in a truck window: How good can any campaign finance reform be, that still lets John McCain in as President?
• I use Bloglines. Used it for years and consider it part of my daily routine. They’ve got a new

Jon Adler at The Corner, earlier today:

Last week Michael Gerson wrote a remarkably unserious column in which he suggested Fred Thompson lacked “moral seriousness” because he failed to embrace President Bush’s global AIDS initiative with sufficient vigor.  Looking

Michael Graham, National Review:

McCain is a weak candidate by any measure. Only once in his two presidential races has John McCain ever won a majority of the vote, and that was Michigan in 2000. He has yet to

• Mickey Kaus notes an article in the Tucson Citizen talking about a country which is having problems handling the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face from Mexican illegals… The country having these issues? Mexico. Amazing how that

I know by our counters we have readers in South Carolina.
I know today is your primary day, South Carolina Republicans.
I have two words for you: Fred Thompson

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Defense Dept. announces Marine units for Afghanistan deployment

Posted: 15 Jan 2008 10:30 AM CST

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 15, 2008) â?? The Secretary of Defense has recommended and the President has approved the deployment of additional units to Afghanistan in

Byran, Hot Air, states the obvious:

Two primary wins, two seconds. No one else has been as broadly competitive so far. He has the most delegates and the most money in the bank, and he’s back to campaigning in

I have been none too impressed by Mike Huckabee, aside from his qualities as a snake charmer.    However the Huckster’s declaration that we need a amend the constitution to bring it in line with God’s views puts Huck somewhat south

Those of you familiar with details of Ezra Levant’s battle with Canadian fascists. may recognize Syed Soharwardy as the Muslim bigot with neither the understanding of, or regard for, Free Speech. Soharwardy has found a brother in arms south

Scott Johnson, Powerline, has “The case against John McCain.” I’ll go beyond Rick Santorum, and I don’t trust McCain on foreign or defense policy either. McCain has the problem of letting extraordinary temper get the better of

Ben Smith over at the Politico notes that there’s been a lot the last 48 or so over charges of racism:

A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters are spurring a racial

Fred Thompson on Mike Huckabee:

“That’s not the model of the Reagan coalition, that’s the model of the Democratic Party,”

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Hat Tips;  quote; Joe Gandelman, Moderate Voice; video, Byran, Hot Air.

The Thompson Treatment was long over