“The Speech” is a huge hit on YouTube

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In just its first few days online, Barack Obama’s speech on race relations has drawn MILLIONS OF VIEWERS, helping to raise public-approval ratings for the oration.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, the senator ESCHEWS the L-word in favor of two P-words.

Dude says he should have trusted the “dirty, smelly hippies” with regard to the war in Iraq

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Republican blogger John Cole has ISSUED a comprehensive mea culpa for having supported the war in Iraq.

Two war heroes differ on surge ’success’

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John McCain and Chuck Hagel are both decorated veterans of the Vietnam War and Republicans in the U.S. Senate, but they sometimes disagree on matters of policy.

McCain, a staunch supporter of the war in Iraq, says the U.S. military surge of the past year has been a big success.  Hagel BEGS TO DIFFER, arguing that  it’s wrong to “dismiss” over “900 dead Americans since the surge” began as “success.”

Hillary’s daring (and fictitious) adventure

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In an effort to burnish her foreign-policy credentials, Hillary Clinton told a story last week of how she and her traveling party had to dodge flying bullets at an airport in Tuzla, Bosnia, back in 1996.

“I remember landing under sniper fire,” she said. “There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

Exciting story, right? But it seems not to jibe with the facts of the matter:

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