If Bill Clinton was the first black president...

could Giuliani be the first gay president?

Vilsack's support for Clinton has a price: $400,000

DES MOINES, Iowa - Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton has agreed to help one-time candidate Tom Vilsack, who endorsed her on Monday, as he seeks to retire a campaign debt of more than $400,000.

More here.

Vilsack to endorse Clinton for president

Whoa Tommy Boy, are you just hungry for some presidential spotlight?

DES MOINES, Iowa - Tom Vilsack, the former Iowa governor and one-time Democratic presidential candidate, will endorse Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in her presidential bid, officials told The Associated Press on Friday.

But the real question is, does this make Iowa a lock for a her?

The Cuban-American leap year

To politicians, Cuban-Americans must seem a lot like leap years. They only exist once every four years. And even then, they only restate the failed policy that older, right-wing Cubans want to hear.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain stumped in Miami's Cuban-American community Wednesday morning as a contentious immigration debate lurched forward in Washington.

McCain gave interviews to two Spanish-language radio stations and visited the Bay of Pigs Museum, where the former Vietnam prisoner of war put his arms around elderly Cuban-American veterans and called them ``comrades.''

I wonder if McCain knows that the word comrade, like the phrase "patria o muerte, venceremos," also brings back negative memories to children of Communism.

The Herald has more.

Barack Obama: "Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people."

The Washington Note has a letter sent by over a hundred Iowa caucus participants to Barack Obama, encouraging him to continue his support for a Palestinian state, as well as a secure Israel.

The letter quotes Obama as saying, "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people," which surprisingly has not been made into a bigger campaign issue. I still remember Joe "the schmuck" Lieberman going after Howard Dean in 2004 because he suggested the United States should be an unbiased arbitrator in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Poll: 58 percent want Iraq withdrawal by 2008 or sooner

The biggest challenge facing the Democratic party today is not the Republican party, but rather being swooned by the overwhelming popular support for withdrawing the troops, which is providing them with quick and easy political capital. It doesn't seem like we're handling that challenge with much responsibility right now.

But with numbers like these,

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nearly six in 10 Americans want to see U.S. troops leave Iraq either immediately or within a year, and more would rather have Congress running U.S. policy in the conflict than President Bush, according to a CNN poll out Tuesday.

Though support for Bush's decision to dispatch additional troops to Iraq grew to 37 percent -- up from 32 percent in a mid-January poll -- a slim majority of 52 percent say Congress should block funding for the new deployment.

The CNN poll was conducted Friday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corp. Pollsters interviewed 1,027 adults for the survey, which had a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.