I am going to get a lot of hell for this one, but honestly, it's just too good to pass up. Here's a clip put together by the John Edwards camapaign, capitalizing on Hillary Clinton's fumbling on last Tuesday's primary debate.

Wow. It's the one debate I chose not to watch because it had Tim Russert as the moderator ... and I just hate his Botoxed eyes.

Who knew it would be "the debate" to watch?!?

Okay, this is ugly: the Siena Research Institute posted poll numbers for Eliot Spitzer that are pretty much in free fall.

Seventy-two percent of New York voters who have read or heard about the Governor’s proposal to allow undocumented aliens to obtain New York driver’s licenses oppose the Governor’s plan, while only 22 percent support it, according to a new Siena (College) Research Institute poll of registered voters released today. The Siena New York poll also shows that Eliot Spitzer’s job performance rating is lower than it has ever been, with a majority of voters saying he’s doing a fair or poor job. If the 2010 gubernatorial race were held today, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, running as a Republican, would beat Democrat Spitzer 50-37 percent.

"Nearly three-quarters of voters – including 59 percent of Democrats – oppose the Governor’s plan to give driver’s licenses to undocumented aliens," said Steven Greenberg, Siena New York Poll spokesman. "The voters’ message to the Governor is clear: ‘No, no, no.’ Opposition to the Spitzer proposal is intense, with 41 percent strongly opposing it and only 7 percent strongly supporting it.

It gets worse.  read more »

To say the state's mainstream media is making too much out of the animosity between Bruno and Spitzer is an understatement. It shows how little actual reporting is happening not just in Albany and New York City but in each and every major newspaper in the state.

Yeah, sure, I actually find it entertaining to deconstruct the Spitzspeak. There's small tics and twitches, physical and verbal, that say a lot about his thought process.

One of those verbal tics is his over-emphatic use of the phrase "I believe". You can listen to it in this impromptu press conference he gave at the NYSDems Spring meeting. He was asked about and earlier spat with Bruno and this is what he had to say :

The question we all need to ask is : Is this news?  read more »