According to her husband Bill Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants to be called “grandma” way more than she wants to be called “President Clinton.”

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week, Bill says his 63-year-old wife wants grandchildren more than she ever wanted the presidency now that their daughter is married.

“I’d like to live, I’d like to be a grandfather. I have nothing to do with that achievement, but I would like it,” Clinton, 64, said, laughing. “I would like to have a happy wife and she won’t be unless she’s a grandmother. It’s something she wants more than she wanted to be president.”

Bill and Hillary’s only child, 30-year-old daughter Chelsea Clinton, married her longtime fiance Marc Mezvinksy, a hedge fund manager and the son of two former members of the U.S. House of Representatives, in a private ceremony last summer in New York. Now, it sounds like mama Clinton is ready for the newlyweds to make some babies!

Thoughts?

Leading up to the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, three obvious scenarios were discussed by analysts: Obama would win both states, Clinton would take both states, or they would each win one. The latter was thought to be most likely. Well they did each win one state by CNN estimates, but somehow it wasn’t quite that…at least if you were following the results as they came in.

In North Carolina, the polls closed at 7pm, some of the exit poll data was being parsed by analysts, and anchors and reporters were afoot about possible outcomes. Normal fare. Then some 30 minutes after the polls closed with little precinct data: Obama was declared the winner by the networks; the results later giving him a win by 14%. Neat and all wrapped up like a nice chicken burrito.

Indiana was quite a different night.

They were the first to report results and they favored Clinton heavily. Clinton was leading by some 18 percent, with only a third of the vote counted earlier on. But then that lead was whittled away hour by hour. The attention began to focus on a little known area of Lake County that for some reason hadn’t provided its results. Little known, but the second largest county in the state. And when this Obama-leaning county reported, Indiana became the late night squeaker. A little bleary eyed, the networks finally declared Clinton the winner after 1am ET. Clinton shimmied by with a 2% win – an omelet that almost fell apart as it was being closed up.

Needless to say, by the numbers, Clinton needed strong wins in Indiana and North Carolina. And with the tight win in Indiana, she now falls behind by more delegates and more votes in sanctioned states. And in order to win the nomination based on current superdelegate counts, she would need some 90 percent of the popular vote in the remaining six primaries. That doesn’t seem likely, which has led many analysts to say it’s over.

Nevertheless, she said in her victory speech last night, “full speed ahead”, saying she is more electable, and that getting Michigan and Florida to count is paramount. Her morning schedule has been moved around a bit after the results came out which has some thinking they are discussing options internally. We expect to hear from her in West Virginia this morning.

As for Obama, he solidifies his frontrunner status on all manners of numbers. His victory speech was inclusive and upbeat and his energy was back after seeing the Jeremiah Wright controversy test his campaign’s message. In his speech, Obama appeared to have been recharged by his clear North Carolina victory and narrow Indiana loss.

So what do you think of last night’s primaries. Where does this leave the Democratic party? Should the two candidates continue until June 3rd, or up until the convention in August? And what do you think of how the two candidates won last night? Many of the dynamics that gave each their wins in previous primaries were reinforced again yesterday: the older and working class vote went for Clinton, and the upscale/educated and black vote went for Obama. Good for the GOP was that the dynamic of a chasm widening also persisted. Early exit polling showed about half of Clinton voters in Indiana would not vote for Obama or sit out the vote in November; a third of Obama voters in North Carolina felt the same.

[ SOURCE: CNN ]

#1: Why did Allure hide Jill Scott behind a bush, but left Gabrielle Union out in the field?

#2: Does Jermaine Dupri use a booster seat when he drives?

#3: Why is Madonna’s new album shitting on “Discipline” and it hasn’t even been released yet?

#4: Why is “Don’t talk to me, you know better than that!” [Jay-Z] so damn funny?

#5: Why did Wesley Snipes get 3 years in prison, and those racist ass cops who murdered a black man for no apparent reason didn’t spend one day behind bars? All Wesley did was not pay the government. Those idiots filled an un-armed person with 50 bullets! Am I the only one who feels this way?

#6: Why hasn’t Hillary Clinton just given up yet?

#7: Why is everyone surprised that Mariah Carey lip-synchs? I mean really, who doesn’t lip-synch every now and then?

#8: What the fuck is taking so long to get R. Kelly convicted?

#9: Why isn’t anyone calling out “shitty cent” on his bitchassness?

#10: Why is Khia so salty over getting the boot from that whack ass VH1 show. How many times are we gonna hear her bitch about why she should be “Ms. Rap Supreme?”

#11: How does Omarion feel now that he’s a “free agent?”

#12: Is anyone really checking for Cassie’s new album?

#13: Why is Ne-Yo’s new video Michael Jackson-ish? Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

#14: Why did everyone but Star Jones know Al was gay?

#15: Does Beyonce and Jay-Z know that we already know they’re married? What the hell are they hiding? The more they hide, the more we dig!

#16: Is Beyonce really gonna retire? Or is she gonna pull a Jay-Z on us?

#17: What provoked Akon to lie about being an ex-con?

#18: Who else thinks that Foxy Brown will be back in prison by 2009?

#19: Now let’s be real. When Orlando Brown went missing, did anyone ask “who?” … and after you found out it was the dude from “That’s So Raven,” you were like “ohhh, him!”

#20: Adding on to that Orlando Brown fiasco, who gave Ricky Romance the approval to manage anyone’s career?

#21: Oh, by the way. Did anyone know that Ray J released a new album like 2 or 3 weeks ago?

Hilary Clinton & Barack Obama both covers the current issue of Time Magazine. The issue is imitating the, There Can Only Be One: NBA Playoffs Campaign and how tense it is in this current election. I love the concept. This is the May 2008 issue. I can’t wait to pick this up. I wonder what’s the content inside this issue, it has to be interesting.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton claimed victory in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, beating out Sen. Barack Obama after a bruising seven-week campaign.”It’s a long road to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and it runs right through the heart of Pennsylvania,” she told supporters in Philadelphia. I’m in this race to fight for you … You know you can count on me to stand up strong for you every single day in the White House.”

Clinton commended Obama and his campaign, saying they are in many ways “on this journey together.” Tuesday’s projected victory follows Clinton’s wins in other big states such as Ohio, New York and California. Her campaign said that should raise new questions about whether Obama, who leads Clinton in the overall Democratic race, can beat presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in November.

“The tide is turning,” Clinton told cheering supporters. Chelsea Clinton’s eyes welled with tears as she watched her mother speak.

With about 99 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton was leading Obama by 10 points. Clinton will pick up a majority of the state’s 158 delegates.

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#1: Why did it take to long for Beyonce to get a non-singing role in a movie?

#2: Why does Weezy’s ad for condoms look suspect?

#3: Why are Reggie and Kim playing us with this fake ass relationship?

#4: Speaking of “fake ass relationships,” Chris Brown and Rihanna! Whaddup?

#5: Why didn’t Woody tell Sisqo about his call from the Lord before hitting the radio airwaves? Couldn’t he have at least put him on threeway?

#6: I’m really loving Kelly Rowland’s new “investment!” I know that’s not a question, but I don’t give a damn.

#7: But here is a question about Kelly: Why the hell does she have to name drop Beyonce, or that House of Dereon fashion line, every time she’s publicly quoted? I thought they were “solo” artists now!

#8: Why don’t Jermaine Dupri and Janet Jackson go on ahead and get married?

#9: Now that Chris Brown and Rihanna are enjoying each other’s company, publicly of course, doesn’t it seem like Beyonce and Jay-Z are slowly fading away into oblivion?

#10: Why doesn’t Cassie just accept the fact that she’s a model? Singing is not her forte and she needs to leave it alone … now.

#11: Who else is anticipating the fact that Barack Obama just might be the first African American (or biracial … whatever you want to call him) president of the United States?

#12: Does Hillary know that she’s pretty much screwed? Maybe that’s why she’s hinting at an Obama-Clinton ticket for the November elections.

#13: Something about Mario’s new promo for Dancing With the Stars looks … off. I can’t put my finger on it. What’s wrong?

#14: Does Webbie really embrace his unibrow?

#15: So Rihanna really had to tell her fans not to bring Umbrellas to the shows? Are they that stupid?

#16: Was Saaphyri serious?

#17: So Tameka really gave Usher permission release this album?

#18: Doesn’t Ashanti have an album coming out? Oops, I almost forgot!

#19: Why is T-Pain in everybody’s video?

#20: You mean to tell me Cleveland has his own spin-off, and Stewie doesn’t?

#21: Rihanna … what booty?

(CNN) — Democrats faced the prospect of at least six more weeks of tough campaigning after Hillary Clinton’s Tuesday night wins in Tuesday’s primaries in Ohio and Texas as she escaped a knockout blow by Barack Obama. Both Democratic contenders are eyeing Pennsylvania — the last heavyweight state on the primary calendar — as the next major battleground. The state votes April 22, after Democratic caucuses in Wyoming on Saturday and a Mississippi primary March 11.

“Ohio has written a new chapter in the history of this campaign, and we’re just getting started,” Clinton told supporters in her victory speech in Ohio. “More and more people have joined this campaign, and millions of Americans haven’t spoken yet. In states like Pennsylvania and so many others, people are watching this historic campaign, and they want their turn to help make history.”

After winning the biggest prizes in the February 5 Super Tuesday contests, the New York senator and former first lady dropped 11 straight primaries and caucuses to Obama and watched her leads in Ohio and Texas dwindle to single digits in published polls. Obama supporters began calling for her to quit the race in order to head off a more divisive endgame, and even her husband — former President Bill Clinton — told supporters she would be unable to win the nomination without victories in those states. But Clinton hit back with a television ad aimed at raising concerns about Obama’s experience, an ad juxtaposing a sleeping child with a late-night emergency call to the White House.

Her campaign also jumped into the controversy over an Obama adviser’s meeting with Canadian officials to discuss trade policy as the Illinois senator was calling for changes in the North American Free Trade Agreement, accusing him of telling voters one thing and the largest U.S. trade partner another. The attacks appeared to hit their mark: About one in three voters in the Texas and Ohio primaries made up their minds in the last week, and those who did broke heavily for Clinton.

“Obama gave his adversaries a big gift when he stumbled and mismanaged this NAFTA issue in Va state that’s economically pressed,” said CNN contributor Paul Begala, a Clinton backer. “Hillary moved ahead on that, and I think that’s why we’re calling Ohio for her.”

Obama advisers point out that they closed the gap drastically in three weeks of intense campaigning, and that despite Tuesday’s losses, he will still lead Clinton in the pursuit of the national convention delegates who will choose a nominee in Denver in August.

“The real measurement tonight is not whether or not Hillary Clinton can win Ohio or Texas, it’s whether she wins by a large enough margin to win the nomination,” Sen. John Kerry, the party’s 2004 presidential nominee, told CNN. “And she has to win by a very big number for the math to work over the course of the next week.”

Kerry said Clinton’s attacks on Obama — which were accompanied by complaints that the first-term senator was getting kid-glove treatment by reporters — sounded “sort of desperate” and risked turning off voters in November. But other observers said Obama can’t continue to take those kind of hits without responding.

“He must begin to answer some of these charges by Sen. Clinton,” said Donna Brazile, a CNN contributor who managed former Vice President Al Gore’s 2000 presidential bid. “She’s gotten away with four days of Sen. Obama, you know, not being able to get back on offense.”

David Gergen — a former adviser to the Nixon, Reagan and Clinton administrations — said Obama “has to throw a punch.”

“He has to go on the offense,” Gergen said. “He’s foresworn going after her with negative ads, but he can’t be hit around the head and shoulders and not fight back.”

[ VIA CNN ]

If you don’t feel like reading all of that, here are they key points of the article:

According to CNN, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are only separated by less than 1% when it comes to the votes cast on Super Tuesday.

NEW YORK (CNN) — Just how sharply are Democrats divided between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? Of all the votes cast on Super Tuesday for the two candidates nationwide, they are only separated by 0.4 of a percentage point. By midday Wednesday, 14,645,638 votes were reported cast for either Obama or Clinton on Tuesday. Clinton had won 7,350,238 of those votes (50.2 percent) while Obama captured 7,295,400 votes (49.8 percent).

Most precincts had reported 100 percent of their votes by Wednesday, though some districts had yet to complete their count. Many of those votes are in in New Mexico, where CNN has yet to declare a winner, and in California, where a sizeable number of absentee votes have yet to be tallied.

The race is getting tighter and tighter with results from “Super Tuesday” still flowing in. So far, Sen. Barack Obama has taken the following states: Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, and Utah, bringing his total win (for Super Tuesday) to 10. And Sen. Hillary Clinton has won the following states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, and Tennessee, bringing her Super Tuesday total win to only 7. But results are still coming in, and technically, Hillary Clinton is still winning (overall in the race), since she has the most delegate votes. So far she has 825 del. votes, while Barack only has 732. Only time will tell who’ll have the most delegate votes after every state who participated in Super Tuesday reports 100%.

All of the polls are closed, and the results are swarming in with over 20 states reporting results from “Super Tuesday!” So far, Baracka Obama has won Georgia, Illinois, and Alabama, while Hillary Clinton has taken Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Tennessee. These are just the definite wins. Polls are just now closing on the west coast, so throughout the evening/morning, I’ll be posting results as they come in. CNN should keep you covered ’til then…

THIS WEEK’S TOPICS » Bill Cosby to release a rap album – Lil Wayne attacks his friends and DJ – Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama + more!

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a United States holiday marking the birthdate of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., observed on the third Monday of January each year, around the time of King’s birthday, January 15. It is one of four United States federal holidays to commemorate an individual person. King was the chief spokesman of the nonviolent civil rights movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. He was assassinated in 1968. The campaign for a federal holiday in King’s honor began soon after his assassination. Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed in 1986. At first, some states resisted observing the holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]

As we reflect on the life and accomplishments of Dr. King, take a minute or two to view his most famous speech, the “I Have a Dream” speech, which can be found under the cut. Happy King Day! You can also find photos of the Democratic candidates participating in a march to the state capitol building in Columbia, South Carolina.

I guess Bloomberg was wrong in their prediction for Tuesday’s New Hampshire primaries.

Hillary Rodham Clinton proved Tuesday that more than one Clinton can be “the Comeback Kid.” “Over the last week, I listened to you, and in the process I found my own voice,” Clinton said at a victory celebration after her win over Barack Obama. “Now, together, let’s give America the kind of comeback that New Hampshire has just given me.” Clinton, whose husband used a second-place finish in New Hampshire in 1992 to propel himself to the White House, had trailed Obama in recent polling. In the last days, though, she overhauled her campaign operation here and took a new tone to the trail. Aides, meanwhile, executed the long-laid ground game that even rivals acknowledged was masterful. The New York senator and former first lady hugged both former President Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, before taking the podium and saying, “thank you, thank you so much” repeatedly.

“I come tonight with a very, very full heart and I want especially to thank New Hampshire,” she said. “For all the ups and down of this campaign, you helped remind everyone that politics isn’t a game. … We came back tonight because you spoke loudly and clearly. Tomorrow, we’re going to get up, roll up our sleeves and keep going,” Clinton said to enthusiastic applause. In the end, though, key voting blocs were there for Clinton in New Hampshire — or weren’t there for Obama, depending on how the campaigns frame it. According to exit polling conducted by The Associated Press and the networks, far more women voted than men; Clinton won 45 percent of them compared to 36 for Obama. Also according to exit polls, fewer younger voters turned out in New Hampshire than in Iowa, depriving Obama of crucial support.

Clinton’s organization delivered. She hired the state’s top political organizers, including the executive director of the New Hampshire Democratic Party that helped orchestrate 2006′s landslide wins in the state House, Senate and Executive Council. She also picked up the popular chairwoman of the party and other party elders. She also picked up key advisers, including Howard Dean’s guru Karen Hicks and belatedly Al Gore aide Doug Hattaway. The homegrown, Granite State feel of the Clinton organization mimicked that of Sen. John Kerry’s 2004 win here. The campaign organized down to the precinct level. They built lists of endorsers and volunteers. They spent more than $5 million on 5,000 television ads in New Hampshire media markets. Despite that, as the summer wore on, Clinton’s poll numbers leveled out. Obama built a similar organization and his name identification crept upward.

When asked Tuesday morning what she planned to tell supporters Tuesday night, Clinton only offered a cautious “We’ll see.” As her optimistic smile made its way to polling places and businesses, record turnout hinted she faced a more difficult than predicted challenge from Obama. Her husband, the former president, starting spinning a loss here and blaming the calendar for not giving the campaign time to adjust after Iowa. The only thing I hate is New Hampshire should have had the customary 10 days after Iowa. If they had, I wouldn’t have any doubt about the outcome of this. It’s just hard to overcome the media deluge,” Bill Clinton said in Seabrook, returning to his frequent criticism of how reporters have covered his wife compared to Obama.

“It’s just almost impossible to vote five days after Iowa without being unduly influenced by the media coverage from Iowa. So, you know, that colored the polls — the switch in the polls for two days — and then we’ve had a three-day election.” Even without the time, it was enough.

– PHILIP ELLIOTT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This just confirms that at this point, this is anybody’s race. Neither Hillary, nor Obama, “have it in the bag.” If you really want your favorite to win register to vote (if it’s not too late) and participate in your state’s primary or caucus! The next Democratic primary will be held in my state, South Carolina, on Saturday, January 26th, and you know I’ll be exercising my voting rights!