Colorado: Hillary Clinton

We've had a lot of fun over the past year or so with former Republican statehouse candidate Muhammad Ali Hasan, who well and truly earned the title we bestowed on him of "Master of the Terrible Press."

Having been the punchline of so many jokes, it would be unfair of us to ignore what Hasan said recently at the Conservative Political Action Conference--as the Colorado Independent reports:

No shoes were thrown, but Ali Hasan did put his foot in his mouth last week at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., baffling the arch-conservative crowd with some decidedly moderate views.

"The problem with Republicans and the conservative movement right now," he said, according to Sarah Posner in the American Prospect, "is we've identified the wrong enemy.

Tuesday's anti-stimulus rally at the Capitol drew hundreds of people protesting President Obama's signing of the $787 billion economic stimulus bill. Among the protesters was an unknown man identified only by his "swastika sign" that likened Obama to Adolf Hitler.

Michael Huttner of ProgressNow, a left-wing advocacy group, attended the rally and in typical Huttner fashion, sent out a post-rally release where he decried the use of swastikas a Nazi analogies, and also demanded an apology from rally organizers, including Independence Institute President Jon Caldara.

But according to conservative muckraker Ari Armstrong, supporters posting on ProgressNow's Web site have regularly used Nazi analogies over the years, and ProgressNow has yet to condemn, edit, or apologize for this sort of language.

An online survey of more than 3,000 middle- and high schoolers may be the first inkling of the Malia and Sasha factor over the insipid teen celebrity role models gracing the covers of Seventeen and Twist magazines.

While the Girl Scout Research Institute’s interviews of 3,284 boys and girls aged 13 to 17 attributes the increased interest in politics and community service to the presidential race, one has to really wonder how much of an effect the poised Obama sisters had standing by the side of Dad- and Mom-in-Chief on the campaign trail.

Nonetheless, the study offers some encouraging predictions for the next generation along with concerns that our daughters haven’t completely nixed the bubble-headed “Barbie” doll attitudes about their place in the world.

UPDATED 3:18 P.M. 10/23/2008   

U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) will campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in Aurora on Friday, Obama's campaign announced Wednesday.

Clinton will hold a rally at General's Park, 1561 North Quentin Street in Aurora, Obama's campaign announced late Wednesday. Gates will open at 3:30 p.m.

Colorado will be the first stop on a tour of Western states by Clinton. Following the Aurora event, she'll attend rallies in West Valley City, Utah and Sunland Park, New Mexico.